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The Otoe Reservation was a twenty-four square miles section straddling the Kansas-Nebraska state line. The majority of the reservation sat in modern-day southeast Jefferson County, Nebraska.

As early as 1834, the Oto relinquished land to the government in fulfillment of a treaty. It extended two miles south of the state line its full length, into Washington and Marshall Counties, Kansas. In Nebraska it extended into Jefferson County, which was earlier called Jones County, and Gage County. Altogether it comprised 250 sections totaling 160,000 acres.[1] The Glenwood, Paddock, Liberty Township and Barneston Townships are wholly within the historic boundaries of the reservation. It also included sections of the Elm, Sicily, Wymore, and Island Grove Townships.[2]

Originally located throughout southeastern Nebraska, the main town of the Oto was once located along the Platte River near present-day Plattsmouth. The Moses Merrill Mission was located in this area. When the Nebraska Territory was formed in 1854 the Oto resigned their remaining land claim with the exception of a section near the Big Blue River. This became the Otoe Reservation. In 1879 a new treaty gave the government gained legal control to remove the Oto to Oklahoma. On May 31, 1883, fifty thousand acres of the Oto and Missouri Indian Reservation in Kansas and Nebraska were opened for settlement at a public sale. When the Oto were removed, the southeast corner of Jefferson County was opened to settlement and the community of Diller was formed.[3] In 1886 the tribe shared an agent with several other local tribes, including the Ponca and Pawnee. The agency was located on the Oto Reservation.[4] The present-day town of Barneston was settled at the site of one of the largest Oto villages through the 1800s. The agency and a trading post were located there. Barneston was founded by a French fur traper who was married to an Oto woman.[5]

The Otos were moved to Red Rock, Oklahoma in the fall of 1882, and the rest of their reservation was put up for sale.[6]

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References

  1. ^ "Otoe Reservation", Old West Trails Center. Retrieved 11/29/08.
  2. ^ (1891) "The Land and the People", Andreas' History of Nebraska. p 741.
  3. ^ Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse. (1997) "Chapter 2: Historic Overview of Jefferson County", Nebraska Historic Buildings Survey: Reconnaissance Survey Final Report of Jefferson County, Nebraska. Nebraska State Historical Society. Retrieved 11/29/08.
  4. ^ Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking. (2005) The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy. Ancestry Publishing. p. 816.
  5. ^ Boye, A. and Morris, W. (2007) The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska. University of Nebraska Press. p 41.
  6. ^ "Odell - Gage County", University of Nebraska. Retrieved 11/29/08.
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