![]() ![]() This is in present-day Noble and Pawnee Counties, Oklahoma. With the Otoe-Missouria already there, they purchased a new reservation in the Cherokee Outlet in the Indian Territory. By the next year, in response to dwindling prospects of self-sufficiency and continued pressure from white settlers, the remaining Otoe members in Nebraska sold the Big Blue reservation. They were willing to sell the western half of the reservation to whites to gain income for a tribal annuity.īy the spring of 1880, about half the tribe had left the reservation and taken up residence with the Sac and Fox Nation in Indian Territory. The Quaker band favored remaining on the Big Blue River land. The Coyote band favored an immediate move to Indian Territory, where they believed they could better perpetuate their traditional tribal life outside the influence of the whites. Hillers Otoe-Missouria Tribe Sealĭuring the 1870s, the tribe split into two factions. Move to Indian Territory Otoe delegation, 1881. ![]() They struggled to adapt to reservation life. They retained the Oto Reservation along the Big Blue River on the present Kansas-Nebraska border. In 1854 the Otoe-Missouria ceded most of their lands south of the Platte River in eastern Nebraska to the U.S. Christian missionaries built a mission there. As their dependence on alcohol grew, the men no longer hunted, but resorted to looting vacant Pawnee villages while the people were out hunting. In the 1830s, European-American traders tried to influence tribal members through alcohol. They gathered with others to trade for European goods. During this time, the Missouria families that survived European diseases and encroachment rejoined them to form the Otoe-Missouri tribe. Otoe County, Nebraska still bears their name. Between 18, the Otoe lived around the mouth of the Platte River in present-day Nebraska. Like other Great Plains tribes, the Otoe periodically left their villages to hunt for bison. They met at a place on the west bank of the Missouri River that would become known as the Council Bluff. When the Lewis and Clark Expedition headed up the Missouri River to explore the new territory the Otoe were the first tribe they encountered. They adopted the horse culture and semi-nomadic lifestyle of the Great Plains, making the American bison central to their diet and culture. The Otoe settled in the lower Nemaha River valley. These became distinct tribes, the Otoe, the Missouria, and the Ioway. Around the 16th century, successive groups split off and migrated west and south. The Otoe were once part of the Ho-Chunk and Siouan-speaking tribes of the Western Great Lakes and Upper Midwest. History Historical tribal territory of the Otoe in green present-day reservations in orange. Today, Otoe people belong to the federally recognized tribe, the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, headquartered in Red Rock, Oklahoma. European-American encroachment and disease also played a role in their decline. In the early 19th century, many of their villages were destroyed due to warfare with other tribes. They often left their villages to hunt buffalo. They lived in elm-bark lodges while they farmed, and used tipis while traveling, like many other Plains tribes. ![]() Historically, the Otoe tribe lived as a semi-nomadic people on the Central Plains along the bank of the Missouri River in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri. The Otoe language, Chiwere, is part of the Siouan family and closely related to that of the related Iowa, Missouria, and Ho-Chunk tribes. The Otoe ( Chiwere: Jiwére) are a Native American people of the Midwestern United States. Ioway, Missouria, Ho-Chunk, and Winnebago United States ( Oklahoma, formerly Nebraska) Missouri Indian, Otoe Indian, and chief of the Ponca by Karl Bodmer, c. ![]()
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