General Timeline for the Otoe

Potawatomies, Weahs, Peorias, Shawanos, Kaskaskias Otoe at this time number 600 1845: May: Otoe-Missouria total 931

1846: the town of Iaan first mentioned--distance from the mouth of the Missouri: 15 miles; to St. Louis: 490 miles

1847: Some Otoe massacred by Ponca and Sioux

1849: The steamboat Embassy met the steamboat Dacotah at Iatan; the Bay State was at Iatan Bend

1851: Otoe Indian deputy: Black Elk and his wife and Black Bear and his wife

1851: H. B. Mollhauson saved by Otoe

1853: Buffalo Hunt

1853: Maypenny held council with many Indian including Otoe (9/19 at Bellevue)

1854: March 15: Treaty with the Otoe and Missouri

1854: December 9: Treaty with the Confederated Otoe and Missouri

1862: Otoe number 708

1864: The Otoe thank the Ennises

1867: Otoe number 511

1873: Chief Medicine Horse and Chief Stand By meet with Commissioner of Indian Affairs October 31-November 4

1874: Buffalo hunts still going on

1876: August 15: Otoe agree to sell 120,000 acres off west end of reservation

1877: Otoe number 457

1880: 2 Otoe chiefs visited LaSalle in IL

1881: March 3: Otoe sell reservation near the Kansas-Nebraska border and move to Oklahoma

1884: November 22:Jim Alke-Dah Otoe Chief

1886: Otoe number 334

1899: Edward Curtis joins George Bird Grinnell

1904: Reservation allotted to tribal members

1906: Otoe number 390

1910: Otoe number 333

1930: Otoe number 627

1937: Otoe number 756

1964: The Otoe-Missouria were awarded $1 million to compensate for the fraudulent way in which the government sold tribal lands

1984: Otoe formed a formal constitutional government under the Indian Welfare Act of 1936

1991: Otoe-Missouria number 1350

1993: Otoe-Missouria number 1412

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