Nemaha, NE

Located in part of the Indian Territory, which was later in the Nebraska Territory and then the state of Nebraska, the tract's eastern border was the Missouri River. The reservation extended west for 10 miles. The north/south borders were between the Little Nemaha River to the north and the Great Nemaha River, near Falls City to the south. The through line in Nemaha is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Nemaha makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. In 1861 the Reservation was disbanded as a legal entity. The Omaha and other tribes asked the government to set aside territory for their mixed-race descendants. Under the patrilineal systems of the Omaha and Osage, children of white fathers had no place in the tribes, where children belonged to their father's gens.