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Common terms and phrasesA. E. Sheldon acres Arbor Day Arikara bank became Bellevue Blackbird Bluff Brule buffalo built cabin called camp cattle Cheyenne chief Clements collection Coronado council Creek crops Daniel Freeman Drawing by Miss Elkhorn River farm Father De Smet fire frontier fur traders Governor grass grasshoppers hills homestead horses houses hundred hunting Kansas Kearney killed land Laramie legislature Lincoln Lisa lived Louis Manuel Lisa Merrill miles Miss Martha Turner Missouri River Nebraska City Nebraska Indians Nebraska legislature Nebraska Territory Niobrara River North Platte Oglala Omaha Indians Omaha tribe Oregon Trail Otoe Pacific party Pawnee Pawnee scouts pioneers plains Platte River Ponca ponies prairie Quivira railroad Red Cloud region Republican road Rock sand settled settlers Sioux soldiers South Spaniards Spanish Spotted Tail storm story territory thousand to-day treaty trees tribe United village voted wagons western Nebraska wild winter Popular passagesPage 206 - Resolved, That, Wednesday, the 10th day of April, 1872, be and the same is hereby especially set apart and consecrated for tree planting in the State of Nebraska, and the State Board of Agriculture hereby name it "Arbor Day... Page 78 - why are ye not here? Your industry and toil would end your sorrows. Here you might rear a smiling home and reap in plenty the fruit of your toil.' The sound of the axe and hammer will echo in this wilderness; broad farms with orchard and vineyard, alive with domestic animals and poultry, will cover these desert plains to provide for thick-coming cities which will rise as if by enchantment with dome and tower, church and college, school and house, hospital and asylums. Page 27 - my great father's two sons. You see me, and the rest of our chiefs and warriors. We are very poor; we have neither powder nor ball, nor knives; and our women and children at the village have no clothes. I wish that as my brothers have given me a flag and a medal, they would give something to those poor people, or let them stop and trade with the first boat which comes up the river. I will bring... Page 37 - ... the right of naming the child. Each of the three tribes was directed by a council composed of the heads of the bands, and this body elected one of their own members to serve as tribal chief. When camping together a circle was formed, each band of the tribe having a fixed place in the circle. While it was common for a man to have more than one wife, he looked upon one of them as the true wife, and spoke of her as the one who sits next to him, because her place in the lodge was next to the head... Page 87 - Nation, as they express it. They fancied that all had gone over that road, and that an immense void must exist in the land of the rising sun. Their countenances testified evident incredulity when I told them that their exit was in nowise perceived in the land of the whites. They styled the route the Great Medicine Road of the Whites. Page 87 - who had never seen but the narrow hunting paths by which they transport themselves and their lodges, were filled with admiration on seeing this noble highway, which is as smooth as a barn floor swept by the winds, and not a blade of grass can shoot up on it on account of the continual passing. They conceived a high idea of the countless White Nation, as they express it. Page 81 - We are opposed to having these big roads, which drive the buffalo away from our country. The soil is ours, and we are determined not to yield an inch of it. Here our fathers were born and buried. We desire, like them, to live here, and to be buried in this same soil. Page 111 - Mr. Freeman was under orders to join his regiment and expected to leave the next day. He told his story and his great desire to be the first homesteader in the United States. All the others agreed that he should have the first chance and with him persuaded a clerk in the land office to open the office a few minutes past midnight on January 1st for Daniel Freeman alone. Page 81 - We have been forced to hate the whites. Let them treat us like brothers and the war will cease. References from web pagesSheldon's History and Stories of Nebraska - Main Page olden-times.com Sheldon's History and Stories of Nebraska - Two ... nebraska bigfoot results History of slavery in Nebraska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Native Americans The Nebraska Aborigines - Eighteenth Century Levi North and Arriminta Howard Nebraska Military Organization & Installations The Overland Trails of Nebraska by Addison Erwin Sheldon - Page 2 Native American Biographies - A to Z Bibliographic information
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