General Timeline for the Otoe

Dec 15, 2001 - © Lisa Perkins

Hello everyone! I hope all of you are having a wonderful holiday season:-) So sorry that I didn't have a new article last month. We moved to southern Missouri and we just got everything unpacked (the computer first of course LOL), and I had a computer virus. Thank goodness the end of the year is close :-)

This month I'm going to do something a little different. I would like you to look at the timeline and see if you would like more information on any topic on it. Maybe I missed something important.

1400s: Sioux "fragmented" and moved from lower Ohio and Mississippi Valleys to Wisconsin and Northern Minnesota

1511: Father Antonio de Montesinas

1542: Coronado leaves Kansas

1600s: Otoe, Missouria, Winnebago, Iowa formed one large tribe

1640: Migrating and horses

1661: Moved west to the plains

1673: Otoe near the Des Moines River

1683: Otoe and Missouri flee south settling on the Grand River (Missouri)

1691: Seen by Jacques Le Torte

1700: Otoe reported by LeSuaur (sp?) to be on the Blue Earth River near the Iowa

1702: June 20: The Otoe are mentioned by French (Louisiana colony Iberville)

1714-1775: Otoe settle near Ashland on the Nemaha River

1720: Villaseur attacked on August 13

1724: October 8: 4 Otoe went with Etinne Veniard de Bourgmont and:
Bourgmont's 10-year old son
5 Padouca envoy
5 Kansa Chiefs
14 Frenchmen
7 Missouria
3 Iowa Chiefs

1725: Bourgmont escorted:
1 Missouria
1 Osage
1 Otoe
1 Missouria Princess
to Paris on September 20, she was baptized and married one of Bourgmont's men

1757: Otoe written about by Antoine S. LePage du Pratz

1758: Otoe numbered 100

1760: Otoe on west bank of Platte River a short distance above the mouth of the Elkhorn

1760: Sir Jeffrey Amburst

1769: Otoe receive presents in the District of Illinois from Louis Saint-Ange de Bellerive, commandant at St. Louis

1775: The Sioux came from the woods of Minnesota to Missouri

1777: Francisco Cruzat (lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana) on November 1, traders traded with Otoe--Otoe, Pawnee, Maha are enemies of the Kansa

1780: Otoe number 900

1780-1782: Smallpox

1785: Shaumonekusse the Prarie Wolf (Ietan) born

1785: Northwest Ordinance

1790-1791: Otoe drove Kansa away from their village near Independence Creek near the Missouri River

1793: Otoe are allies with the Pawnee Republic

1795: Otoe are located approximately one mile below the mouth of the Platte (10/14)

1796-1797: Francisco Deroun (Francis Dorion?) still finds the Otoe on the Platte

1801: Jacques Clamorgan obtains exclusive trading privileges with Otoe, Omaha, Ponca, Kansa

1804: Lewis and Clark meet with Otoe on the Council Bluffs

1805: Otoe number 500

1805: October 22: General Wilkinson wrote that Cpt. Amos Stoddard and 26 persons from Otoe, Missouria, Pawnee, Kansa, Osage, Sac, Reynard (Fox), Iowa, Kickapoo, Pottawattame, and Miami will visit the President

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