Zacharys TImeline

The Omaha tribe began as a woodland tribe. The tribe coalesced and inhabited the area near the Ohio and Wabash rivers

Omaha, Nebraska was named after the tribe

The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska & Iowa consists of over 5,000 enrolled members, with most of the tribe residing on the Omaha Indian Reservation headquartered in Macy, Nebraska

The Indian treaty signed in June 1854 sold all but 300,000 acres for $850,000 (or about 11 cents an acre).

Lewis and Clark discovered the Omaha tribe CLIKC FOR DESCRIPTION

Smallpox was a big problem for the Omaha CLICK FOR DESCRIPTION

By the Fourth Treaty of Prairie du Chien in 1831, the Omaha ceded their lands in Iowa to the United States, east of the Missouri River, with the understanding that they still had hunting rights there

In 1836 a treaty with the US took their remaining hunting lands in northwestern Missouri from the Omaha.

The last full-blooded Omaha Chief died CLICK FOR DESCRIPTION

Omaha seperation/migration CLICK FOR DESCRIPTION

Chief Blackbird CLICK FOR DESCRIPTION

The Omaha fought in the American Civil War