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Ponca, NE -- U.S. city in Nebraska
Population (2000): 1062
Housing Units (2000): 425
Land area (2000): 0.704172 sq. miles (1.823797 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.704172 sq. miles (1.823797 sq. km)
FIPS code: 39695
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.563964 N, 96.710563 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68770
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Ponca

The Ponca ( Páⁿka iyé: Páⁿka or Ppáⁿkka pronounced ) are a Midwestern Native American tribe of the Dhegihan branch of the Siouan language group. There are two federally recognized Ponca tribes: the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. Their traditions and historical accounts suggest they originated as a tribe east of the Mississippi River in the Ohio River valley area and migrated west for game and as a result of Iroquois wars.

The term Ponca was the name of a clan among the Kansa, Osage, and Quapaws. The meaning of the name is "Cut Throat".

Ponca (disambiguation)

The Ponca are a Native American tribe.

Ponca may also refer to:

  • Ponca, Nebraska
  • Ponca Fort
  • Ponca City, Oklahoma
  • Ponca State Park
  • Ponca Township, Dixon County, Nebraska
  • Poncha (cacique), a native leader encountered by Vasco Núñez de Balboa in Panama

Usage examples of "ponca".

Chuck, a Consolidated Freightways driver zooming along the highway somewhere east of Ponca City.

He excitedly started telling me how Ace Bowman from Pawhuska, Oklahoma, tied the arena record in the first go-round of the 1998 Ponca City 101 Ranch Rodeo with a 9.

Grandpap rode his horse and led another one to the 101 Ranch Rodeo in Ponca City from Stonewall, Oklahoma, approximately 180 miles one way.

West Virginia and soon founded his own Marland Oil company with headquarters in Ponca City, Oklahoma.

Marland fenced in a tract of four hundred acres near Ponca and turned it into a pseudo-upper-class British estate, complete with polo fields, peacocks, ponies and hounds.

It was familiar, so close to the story of the Ponca Deer Woman, of whom I dreamed last night.

In their regular ceremonial dance, the Ponca Indian girls go hand-in-hand in a ring round a fire.

Accordingly he had issued an order for the removal of the Ponca Indians, of Nebraska, to the Indian Territory.

Indeed, I believe on further and fuller inquiry, he came to the conclusion that it was his duty to sustain the Secretary, so far as to keep in the Indian Territory the fragment of the Ponca Tribe who were still there.

Center City as you have occupied those of Pondereek and Blackwell and Newkirk and Fairfax and Pawnee and Perry and Billings and Lucien and Redrock and Gray Horse and Pawhuska and Ponca City itself?

It is as well, say the Poncas for, after that one night, he is no longer a man.

The Poncas still dance in Oklahoma and they say Deer Woman still intrudes.

The Poncas were a small tribe, living on excellent lands, to which they were exceedingly attached.

A war party of the Poncas had made a foray into the lands of the Omahas, and carried off a number of women and horses.

Several had told us of the Ponca and of their kinfolk the Omahas, Otoes, and Osages.