Usage examples of "ponka".
The effects of consolidation are conspicuous among the Omaha, Kansa, Osage, and Oto, while segregation has affected the social organization among the Kansa, Ponka, and Teton.
Omaha tribe, much that is said is applicable to the Ponka, as the two tribes have long had similar environments and a common dialect, for, until 1877, their habitats were almost contiguous, and since 1880 about one-third of the Ponka tribe has been dwelling on its former reservation near the town of Niobrara, Nebraska.
Those built by the Omaha and Ponka were constructed in the following manner: The roof was supported by two series of vertical posts, forked at the top for the reception of the transverse connecting pieces of each series.
When the Ponka wished to make the baskets, they stripped off the bark in horizontal sections, not pulling upward or downward.
Omaha and Ponka instead of the common lasso for catching wild horses in northwestern Nebraska.
Omaha and Ponka when they traversed a region, north of their modern, habitat.
Pawnee were better, but they were inferior to those made by the Dakota, Ponka, and Omaha.
Since then he has learned of the existence of similar societies among the Kansa and the Ponka, and he suspects that there were formerly such societies among the Omaha.
This is especially the case in tribes where the secret society continues in all its power, as among the Osage, the Ponka, and the Kansa.
And this arrangement by sevens is the rule among Osage, Kansa, Ponka, Omaha, and Dakota, though there are apparent exceptions.
May of that year he was sent to Dakota Territory as a missionary among the Ponka Indians.
Omaha and the Ponka the chiefs, being the civil and religious leaders of the people, can not serve as captains, or even as members, of an ordinary war party, though they may fight when the whole tribe engages in war.
While among the Omaha and Ponka a chief can not lead in war, there is a different custom among the Dakota.
The powers of a warrior and civil chief may be united in one person, thus differing from the Omaha and Ponka custom.
Dorsey, the ancestors of the Omaha, Ponka, Elwapa, Osage, and Kansa were originally one people dwelling on Ohio and Wabash rivers, but gradually working westward.