Native American Heritage Month: Photo Collections
November is Native American Heritage Month and the pictures shown here are just a handful that we have in our collections. Our collections also include information about ...
Native American History
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Native American Heritage: Artifact Collections
This is a look at our Native American artifacts and are just a handful of the collections that include information about the past and present influences of Native ...
Native American Heritage Month: Artifacts from Archeology
November is Native American Heritage Month. To celebrate, we will highlight Native American artifacts in our collections every Wednesday during the month of November. ...
Flashback Friday: Q&A with Joe Starita, author of A Warrior of the People, biography of Susan La Flesche, America’s First Indian Doctor
UNL professor and author Joseph Starita’s new biography, A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become ...
Marker Monday: The Flight of the Cheyennes
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Just before 10 P.M. on January 9, 1879, the 130 Cheyennes held in the cavalry barracks made their desperate bid for freedom. After disabling ...
Real Nebraska Stories: From Our Special Correspondent – ‘The Greatest Gathering of Indians Ever Assembled’
Now that all of our book titles are available at Amazon Prime, we’re highlighting a book a day to let you know about all the great Real Nebraska Stories that we offer. ...
Real Nebraska Stories: Last Days of Red Cloud Agency: Peter T. Buckley’s Photograph Collection, 1876-77
Now that all of our book titles are available at Amazon Prime, we’re highlighting our books to let you know about all the great Real Nebraska Stories that we offer. Buy ...
Marker Monday: Cedar County
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we're focusing on a marker that tells the story of Nebraska's ...
John Anderson Collection
John Anderson was a photographer who worked primarily at Fort Niobrara in Nebraska and on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Born in Sweden in 1869, he came to ...
“Omaha Charley” Bristol Collection
Donation information indicates that this turtle bone necklace belonged to Young Spotted Tail, a son of the Brule Lakota Chief Spotted Tail. Young Spotted Tail was held ...
William Clark
Indian "Commission" Signed by William Clark (1815)
This 1815 Indian commission was signed by William Clark of Lewis and Clark Expedition fame. Clark was appointed ...
Native American Wild West Show Contracts
W. H. Barten served as a teacher at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota from 1891 to 1902, when he relocated to Gordon, Nebraska, and opened a mercantile store. ...
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