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

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OMAHAS , a tribe of See also:

North See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Siouan stock . They were found on St See also:

Peter's See also:

RIVER

river, See also:

MINNESOTA

Minnesota, where they lived an agricultural See also:

LIFE

life . Owing to a severe epidemic of small-pox they abandoned their See also:

VILLAGE

village, and wandered westward to the Niobrara river in See also:

NEBRASKA

Nebraska . After a See also:

SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession of See also:

TREATIES

treaties and removals they are now located on a See also:

RESERVATION (Lat. reservare, to keep back)

reservation in eastern Nebraska, and number some 1200 .

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