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A Little History

OTOES-MISSOURIA TRIBE
1895 Maps of Indian Nations

According to tradition, the people later known as the Otoe, along with their relatives, the Winnebago and the Iowa, once lived in the Great Lake region.In a prehistoric migration southwest in search of buffalo, the separated.The division that reached the mouth of the Grand River, a branch of the Missouri, called themselves Niutachi, or �those that arrived at the mouth,� and soon separated into two bands because of a quarrel between two of their chiefs.One band went up the Missouri and became know as the Otoe, and the other band stayed near their first settlement and were called the Missouria. Frm 1817 to 1841, the Otoe lived near the mouth of the Platte River.Since 1829, the Missouria have been absorbed by the Otoe, so that the two are now indistinguishable.

On March 15, 1854, the Otoe-Missouria signed a treaty ceding all their lands except a strip 10 miles wide and 25 miles long on the waters of Big Blue River, but when it was found that there was no timber on this tract, it was exchanged for another tract taken from the Kaw (Kansa).In a treaty signed August 15, 1876, and amended March 3, 1879, they agreed to sell 120,000 acres of the western end of the reserve.Finally, a treaty signed on March 3, 1881, provided for the sale of all the rest of their lands in Kansas and Nebraska and for the selection of a new reservation. Consent to the treaty was recorded May 4, and the tribe moved the following year to the nw reservation which was in Indian Territory.