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OMAHAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 99 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OMAHAS  , a tribe of

North
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American Indians of Siouan stock . They were found on St Peter's
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river,
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Minnesota, where they lived an agricultural
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life . Owing to a severe epidemic of small-pox they abandoned their
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village, and wandered westward to the Niobrara river in
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Nebraska . After a succession of
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treaties and removals they are now located on a reservation in eastern Nebraska, and number some 1200 .

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