While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
The Ponca were originally part of the Omaha tribe, to whom they are related.
Lived originally on the Red River of the North, but were driven southwestwardly
across the Missouri by the Sioux, and fortified themselves on the Ponca River.
United for a time with the Omaha for protection, but have generally lived
apart. Were so exposed to the forays of the savage Sioux that they were almost
exterminated at one time, but after the treaties of 1817 and 1825 rallied and
began to in crease. Were estimated then at 750, which has remained their average
number ever since. In 1858 sold their lands and went on a reservation near the
Yankton, but being too near their old foes, and not being able to raise any
crops, were in 1865 removed down to the mouth of the Niobrara, where they now
have three villages. Are still exposed to raids from the Sioux, retarding very
much their progress toward a self-supporting condition. Efforts are being made
to have them join their relatives, the Omaha.
Descriptive Catalogue, Photographs Of North American Indians. United States Geological Survey
of the Territories, 1877 by W. H. Jackson, Photographer of the Survey,
F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist.
