Ponca Tribes: Difference between revisions

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ponca Tribe signed four treaties with the United States government -- the first in 1817, the second in 1825, the third in 1858, the fourth in 1865. Each was an attempt to affirm their peaceful intent and to regulate trade in the area in which they lived.  

Treaties between the government and the Sioux/Lakota in 1868 gave the land claimed by the Ponca to the Sioux. As a result, in 1877, the Ponca were forced by the U.S. to remove to Indian Territory, specifically to the Quapaw Reservation. Two groups were removed that year, for a total of just under 700 tribal members. The following year, the Ponca established their own settlement from land on both sides of the Salt Fork River, from the west bank of the Arkansas River. An agency was established on the Salt Fork River, two miles from where it joined with the Arkansas River.  

In the 1880s, the Ponca split into two -- the Northern Ponca Tribe on the Niobrara River in Nebraska and the Southern Ponca Nation in what is now Oklahoma.  

:1789 -- First contact with Europeans

:1858 -- Third treaty with the U.S. government<br>1865 -- Fourth treaty with the U.S. government<br>1868 -- U.S. treaty with the Sioux/Lakota that included all Ponca lands<br>1877 -- Forced Removal to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) of 681 Ponca

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Census records for the Ponca Tribe in Oklahoma are included in the rolls for the Ponca Agency, 1886-1927, (FS Library films: 580765-580770)and the Pawnee Agency, 1920-1939, (FS Library Films: 579747-579753).

*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/pon0140.htm 1817] June 17,

*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/pon0875.htm 1865]March 10, Washington D.C.

Many of the earlier records kept by the Ponca Agency (later the Winnebago Agency) in Nebraska have been transferred to the Kansas City Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration. Included among the records housed in this facility are copies of the Indian census rolls 1880-1928, family record books 1886-1891, vital statistics records 1885-1906 and 1937-1947, marriage registers, 1900, copies of birth and death certificates 1938-1945, annuity payrolls 1884-1907, and allotment rolls 1869.  

Some records for the Ponca are included in the collections of the Pawnee Agency in Oklahoma which are now housed in the Fort Worth Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration. A brief inventory of records available at this facility is [http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/075.html#75.19.80 available online].<br>

==== Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the Ponca Agency, 1859-1880  ====

Copies of [[Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880|Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs]] from the Ponca Agency for the years 1859-1880 are included in Microcopy 234 of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Rolls 670-677. Copies of those rolls are also available at the [[American Indian Research in the FamilySearch Library|FamilySearch Library]] (their microfilm numbers {{FSC|403528|title-id|disp=1661400 - 1661407}}).  

==== Reports of Field Offices  ====

 

Copies of the [[Reports of Inspection of the Field Jurisdictions of the Office of Indian Affairs, 1873-1900|Reports of Inspection]] of the Ponca Agency, 1874-1880 and of the Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe Agency, 1881-1900, are included in Microcopy M1070 of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Rolls 37-39. A copy of that roll is also available at the [[American Indian Research in the FamilySearch Library|FamilySearch Library]] in Salt Lake City (their microfilm number {{FSC|403511|title-id|disp=1617710 thru 1671712}})

 

 

 

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[[Category:Indigenous Tribes of Oklahoma]] [[Category:Indigenous Tribes of Nebraska]]