Ponca tribal members follow in the footsteps that their ancestors

On a spring morning, members of the Ponca tribe gather near the town of Niobrara to walk. They’re following the footsteps of their great-great grandparents who, 140 years earlier, were driven by soldiers from their traditional Nebraska homeland to Indian Territory-now the state of Oklahoma.
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[@dwaincamp9092]

Thank you for posting this record of our people and this important time in our history.
Ponca Elder, Dwain Camp or Shongaska

[@DarrenMoore-le6pg]

My friend Nate Gilpen, who is of the Omaha Nation, close kin of the Ponca people told me that his people wanted the Ponca to live with them but the US govt relocated the Winnebago to the Omaha Reservation instead. Genoa Nebraska is where the Pawnee Nation Reservation use used to be.