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Definition of Ponca
1. Noun. A member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in northeastern Nebraska.
2. Noun. The Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Ponca.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ponca
Literary usage of Ponca
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"The Ponca tribe of Indians hereby cede and relinquish to the United States all
the lands now owned or claimed by them. Boundaries'' wherever situate, except ..."
2. A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson, ( (2001)
"In consideration of the cession or release of that portion of the reservation
above described by the Ponca tribe of Indians to the Government of the United ..."
3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1903)
"There is no more important event in the annals of the American Indians than the
sun dance of the Ponca tribe. This year the Ponca Indians were more liberal ..."
4. Geology of the Mid Continent Oilfields, Kansas, Oklahoma and North Texas by Thomas Owen Bosworth (1920)
"CHAPTER VII STRUCTURE IN THE Ponca CITY FIELD The Ponca City oil and gasfield
... Several anticlines are shown, with axes trending SW or SSW The Ponca City ..."
5. The World Displayed: Or, A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels (1750)
"The cacique Ponca being foon informed of the approach of the Spaniards, ...
upon which Ponca came to meet him with a pre- fent of gold, to the value of no ..."
6. Indian Land Laws: Being a Treatise on Indianland Titles in Oklahoma and by Samuel Thomas Bledsoe (1913)
"Ponca.—By executive authority there were allotted to 782 Ponca Indians, out of
the Ponca reservation, 100734 acres of land, under the General Allotment Act ..."
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