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'''Various Spellings: '''Ponca Tribe''', '''Ponca, Poncar, Poncarar, Ponka, Puncahs  

The Ponca Tribe today is primarily associated with the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma.  

'''Ponca Tribe of Nebraska<br>'''PO Box 288<br>Niobrara NE 68760  

voice 580.762.9567<br>fax 580.762.2743  

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.  

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.  

==== Brief Timeline  ====

:1966 -- Ponca Tribe of Nebraska ("Northern Ponca") terminated in U.S. policy to terminate tribes (tribal membership 442, 838&nbsp;acres tribal land)<br>1990 -- U.S. Congress approved Ponca Restoration Bill, created Ponca Tribe of Nebraska

Frederick Webb Hodge, in his ''Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico'', gave a more complete [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/ponca/poncaindianhist.htm history of the Ponca tribe], with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in John Swanton's [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/nebraska/index.htm#Ponca ''The Indian Tribes of North America''] and in David Bushnell's [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0017326 ''Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi''].  

For additional history of the tribe, [http://www.ponca.com/752.html read more....]  

==== Reservations  ====

The Poncas are historically associated with two reservations -- the [[Ponca Indian Reservation (Nebraska)|Ponca Reservation in Nebraska]] and the [[Ponca Indian Reservation (Oklahoma)|Ponca Reservation in Oklahoma]].  

=== Treaties  ===

=== Ponca Agency  ===

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

==== Annual Census Rolls, 1885-1939  ====

==== 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 Family History Library|Family History Library]] in Salt Lake City (their microfilm number {{FHL|403511|title-id|disp=1617710 thru 1671712}})  

*The Official Web Site of the [http://www.ponca.com/home.html Ponca Nation]  

*Ponca Tribe [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponca Wikipedia]

==== Bibliography  ====

:Volume 1 -- Not yet published  

:Volume 10 -- Southwest (pub. 1983) -- [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/301504096&referer=brief_results WorldCat 301504096]; {{FHL|248632|title-id|disp=FHL book 970.1 H191h v.10}}.  

:Volume 14 -- Southeast (pub. 2004) -- [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/254277176&referer=brief_results WorldCat 254277176]  

:Volume 16 -- Not yet published  

:Volume 18 -- Not yet published  

:Volume 19 -- Not yet published