Native American Baseball Teams
The photograph collections of History Nebraska contain more than two hundred images of Nebraska baseball players, teams, and diamonds. The images reflect the pride and ...
Native American
What We Found
Discovering High Plains Horsemanship through Nebraska Archeology
(Published February 27, 2019)
History Nebraska houses collections from archeological sites spanning 12,000 years of human history across the state. Recently, research ...
How the Republican River Got its Name
Have you ever wondered how the Republican River got its name? The name is older than the Republican Party and has a surprising origin.
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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: History Nebraska’s Repatriation Program
Read about what the NAGPRA Law means for Native Americans and how History Nebraska works with tribes across the state.
In the late 1980s, after learning that the ...
The Chadron State Park Site
The theme of Archeology Month 2021 is Archeology in Nebraska State Parks. While Ft. Atkinson and Ft. Robinson have seen the most archeological work, we start in ...
2017 Lake McConaughy Archeology Survey
In 2017 archeologists from History Nebraska surveyed a section of land near Ogallala at the request of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. The landscape was rugged ...
Collaboration Among History Nebraska, Pawnee Nation, NDOT
Nebraska archeology is renowned for its collection of artifacts and other information related to the Pawnee Tribe. The Pawnee lived over a wide expanse of what is now ...
What Happens When Indigenous Skeletal Remains are Found
All too often, human remains are discovered in Nebraska as the result of plowing, construction, or natural erosion. There are state and federal laws which govern how ...
Emily Fontenelle’s Fancy Handbag
This handbag reflects Emily Fontenelle’s mixed-race Pawnee heritage and her nineteenth- and twentieth-century lifetime. She donated the bag to History Nebraska in ...
The first years of Genoa Indian Industrial School
By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant
During the Indian Reform movement that began in the 1860s, reformers opened boarding schools to assimilate Indigenous youth to ...
Portraits of Omaha’s 1898 Indian Congress
The Paper Lab at the Gerald Ford Conservation Center recently completed the treatment of four photograph albums from the Omaha Public Library collection. They depict ...
Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, First Native American Woman Physician
If you could travel back in time to October 3, 1910, you might see Dr. Picotte opening the door to welcome White Horse, in need of advice on building a new ...
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