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*'''African Americans''' were in Nebraska before the Civil War, but many more arrived in the late nineteenth century, especially in the Omaha area. | *'''African Americans''' were in Nebraska before the Civil War, but many more arrived in the late nineteenth century, especially in the Omaha area. | ||
*'''American Indians''' had largely been dispossessed of their Nebraska lands and '''removed to present-day Oklahoma by 1880''', but '''Santee Sioux, Omaha, and Winnebago Indians''' still live on two small reservations in the state. | *'''American Indians''' had largely been dispossessed of their Nebraska lands and '''removed to present-day Oklahoma by 1880''', but '''Santee Sioux, Omaha, and Winnebago Indians''' still live on two small reservations in the state. | ||
*New settlement virtually ceased in the 1890s, although a large section of northwest Nebraska was not completely homesteaded until after World War I | *New settlement virtually ceased in the 1890s, although a large section of northwest Nebraska was not completely homesteaded until after World War I. | ||
==Immigration Records== | ==Immigration Records== | ||