PONCA  , a tribe of See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North-See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Siouan stock . They were originally See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• OMAHA

Omaha tribe, with whom they lived near the Red See also:

• RIVER

River of the North . They were driven westward by the Dakotas, and halted on the Ponca river, Dakota . After a See also:

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

succession of See also:

• TREATIES

treaties and removals they were placed on a See also:

• RESERVATION (Lat. reservare, to keep back)

reservation at the mouth of the Niobrara, where they were prospering, when their lands were forcibly taken from them, and they were removed to See also:

• INDIAN

Indian Territory (See also:

• OKLAHOMA (a Choctaw Indian word meaning " red people ")

Oklahoma) . During the See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

march thither and in their new quarters, the tribe's See also:

• HEALTH

health suffered, so that in 1878 they revolted and made their way back to the See also:

• OMAHAS

Omahas . They were recaptured, but public See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention having been See also:

• DRAWN

drawn to their hard See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case they were liberated in 188o, after a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long trial, which resulted in their being declared See also:

• UNITED

United States citizens . They number some 700, mostly in Oklahoma .