1854 — Otoe and Missouria Indians ceded all claims to land west of the Missouri River except a small reservation on the Big Blue River. 1875 — Village of Edgar was incorporated. 1943 — A prisoner-of-war camp opened at Fort Robinson. March 16. 1854 — Omaha tribe ceded all land west of the Missouri ...

Brian Hobbs, one of the community leaders opposed to using the abandoned Chilocco Indian School campus for bioterror testing, stands outside the campus ... have the money to bring the body home, so they were buried at the school cemetery,” Heather Payne, a Otoe-Missouria Tribe spokeswoman, said.

Five Native American tribes that own an Oklahoma site where the U.S. Department of Homeland Security intends to conduct bioterrorism drills next year now ... the money to bring the body home, so they were buried at the school cemetery," said Heather Payne, a spokeswoman for the Otoe-Missouria Tribe.

The U.S. government is stirring controversy in Indian country, reviving for some the painful memories of the many injustices and iniquities committed ... more than a decade ago when the Council of Confederated Chilocco Tribes (which includes the Kaw Nation, the Otoe-Missouria Tribe, the Pawnee Nation, ...

What attracts Native Americans to pop culture, science fiction and fantasy? "I was born a geek," says Johnnie Jae, a member of the Otoe-Missouria and Choctaw tribes and the managing editor of Native Max Magazine and the mistress of atribecalledgeek.com, an indigenous pop culture news site.

The Otoe-Missouria Tribe has partnered with a Community Based Developed Organization (Native American Housing Services, Inc. (NAHSI)) and will be using the $800,000 in ICDBG funds to construct an Elder Housing Facility. This new housing construction project for the elderly will consist of 5,880 SF in total, consisting ...

OKLAHOMA INDIAN SUMMER: Festival celebrates 30th event Friday, Saturday .... Nazhoni is a member of the Quapaw Tribe and a descendant of the Otoe-Missouria, Kiowa, Cherokee, Delaware, Navajo, Cheyenne & Arapahoe, and Ottawa Tribes. She is in the sixth grade and is a cheerleader and also ...

Johnnie is also an advocate of indigenous and human rights issues, and speaks at many events throughout Indian country on youth empowerment, suicide prevention, gender and racial equity, police brutality, reconciliation and solidarity, and indigenous representation in the media. She currently resides ...