General Timeline for the Otoe - Page 3
© Lisa Perkins
1830: Between August 7 and 16: Otoe, Omaha, Iowa, Sac, Delaware, Shawnee, Kickapoo, Dougherty at Cantonment Leavenworth have peace council
1831/1832: Smallpox
1832: Catlin
1832/1833: Karl Bodmer and Prince Maximilian
1833: Otoe number 1300
1833: Otoe forced Kansa from their village
1833: Merrills reach Bellevue
1833: Presbyterian Missionary William D. Smith met Chief Ietan at Ft. Leavenworth
1833: September: Commander Henry Ellsworth, Edward John T. Irving Jr., John Dunlop, Dr. Ware S. May, Agent Dougherty go from Ft. Leavenworth to Otoe and Missouria village on September 21 Ellsworth negotiated a treaty ceding claims to the Little Nemeha riverland. They stayed with the Otoe for 2 weeks after the treaty and went with Ietan some 80 miles up the Platte to Grand Pawnee town
1833: September 5: Moses Merrill, Ira D. Blanchard (Baptist missionary with the Delaware) and a guide went to Otoe-Missouria village on the Platte
1833: November 8: Indian peace council: signed by Ietan along with other Indians (11/12)
1833: November 20: Henry Ellsworth left Leavenworth to go to Osage country accompanied by Pawnee, Otoe, Agent John Dougherty, Edward A. Ellsworth and Baptist Peoria (interpreter)
1834: Ietan meets Merrills at S. bank of Platte near Ashland, NE
1834: Upper Missouri agency headed by Dougherty included Indians and Indian county west of Missouri to include Otoe, Pawnee, Omaha, Ponca
1834: Catlin and Bodmer (painters who brought disease)
1835: September: Merrills opened missionary with Cynthia Brown
1835: Ietan moves tribe to Merrill mission
1835: June 11: Col. Henry Dodge and others held council with Otoe-Missouria
1835: July: 60 Otoe die from cholera
1836: October 15: Otoe, Missouria, Omaha, Yankton and Santee Sioux have council with Dougherty and Subagent Joshua Pilcher and signed treaty giving all claim of lands between Missouri and Missouri River (Platte Purchase)
1837: April 28: Ietan dies
1837: Council Bluffs agency led by Dougherty formed (Otoe, Missouria, Omaha, Pawnee)
1837: Thomas Say (scientist) finds Otoe word for Kansas River--to-pe-o-ka=good potato river
1839: Col. Kearney "councilled" with Otoe and Missouria. Their new agent Joseph V. Hamilton, talked Kearney out of disciplining them
1840: February 6: Moses Merrill dies
1840: Smallpox
1840: Otoe-Missouria total 943
1840: Otoe raid stock in Buchanan county
1841: Catlin publishes Notes and Letters....
1841: May 7: Otoe missionary led by missionaries Reverend Ambler Edson and his wife
1842: August: Otoe missionary closed
1843: Otoe-Missouri number 931
1843: Hostilities by Otoe toward fur traders and trappers reported
1843: September 2: Otoe prisoners at Ft. Leavenworth escaped, 1 shot and killed, 1 escaped
1844: Catlin paints various members of the following tribes: Konza, Pawnee, Omaha, Otoe, Missiouria, Delaware, Kickapoo, Potawatomies, Weahs, Peorias, Shawanos, Kaskaskias
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