Identifier: historyofnebrask00mort (find matches)
Title: History of Nebraska from the earliest explorations of the trans-Mississippi region
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Morton, J. Sterling (Julius Sterling), 1832-1902 Watkins, Albert, 1848-1923 Thomas, Augustus Orloff, 1863-1935 Beattie, James A., 1845- Wakeley, Arthur Cooper, 1855-
Subjects: Nebraska -- History
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb., Western Publishing and Engraving Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Kit-ke-hak-i livedeighteen miles northwest, on the north sideof the Loup; the Pita-how-e-rat, eleven milesfarther up the Loup, and the Skidi, five milesabove these; and he says they changed theirvillages every eight or ten years. In 1833the Pawnees ceded the territory south of thePlatte to the United States. In 1857 theyceded the territory north of the Platte, excepttheir reservation in Nance county. The terri-tory ceded, according to Chas. C. Royce,4 em-braced the central third of the entire state.The reservation above mentioned was ceded in1876, and the Pawnees were taken to IndianTerritory, where they now have a reservation. The various branches of the Siouan linguis-tic stock have come to this state at five dif-ferent times. The first were the Mandans,whose coming is shrouded in antiquity. Cat-lin claims to have traced their earthworks andhabitat down the Ohio river and up the Mis- • Mag. Am. Hist., vols. 4 and 5. • ;,S//i Rept. Bureau of Ethnology, pt. 2. HISTORY OF NEBRASKA
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