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Omaha Indian Heritage

Bringing together Native American artifacts and documents can be a difficult process, but fortunately for the preservation of materials from the Omaha tribe, a group of organizations in Nebraska have taken on this project. Drawing on resources from the University of Nebraska State Museum, the Nebraska State Historical Society and other partners, they have created this fine website. At the present time, the site includes sections containing online texts, photographs, and artifacts. The online texts contain important documents such as James Owen Dorsey’s 1891 article “The Social Organization of the Siouan Tribes” and Alice C. Fletcher’s 1895 piece “The Sacred Pole of the Omaha tribe”. Visitors will also want to look through the photographs, which include a portrait of Omaha scouts from 1865 and a number of images from a powwow that was held in 1938. The site concludes with a list of thematically organized links to external sites about the language, art, and laws of the Omaha people.
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