NEAR MILFORD -- David Fikar hasn’t had to face the tornadoes and flooded rivers and creeks the Poncas faced on their forced march south to Indian Territory in Oklahoma in 1877. But the Lincoln man has ...
Dan Jones, tribal chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Okla-homa, left, and Larry Wright Jr., the tribal chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska exchange gifts Wednesday in a ceremony at Haskell Indian ...
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CARTER LAKE, Iowa (AP) -- The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska estimates that its proposed casino in western Iowa would create 1,800 jobs and provide an economic boon for the region. The tribe released its ...
In the four years of its existence, the Dancers of the Plains Cultural Exhibition has welcomed home four Indian tribes native to Nebraska: Pawnee, Arikara, Otoe-Missouria and Ponca. It is with pride ...
BARNESTON — The road south to Oklahoma was a perilous one for the Ponca people in 1877. Forced from their homes along the Niobrara in northeast Nebraska, nearly 700 Poncas started the journey south to ...
The Poncas’ 460-mile walk to a bleak reservation in Oklahoma, under guard by U.S. troops, has been immortalized as the tribe’s Trail of Tears. Standing Bear was arrested after he returned to Nebraska ...
KEARNEY — Smoke of burning cedar needles floated across a small patch of overturned sod Tuesday near the Great Platte River Road Archway as Ed and Oliver Littlecook of Ponca, Okla., recited a tribal ...
BARNESTON — The road south to Oklahoma was a perilous one for the Ponca people in 1877. Forced from their homes along the Niobrara in northeast Nebraska, nearly 700 Poncas started the journey south to ...