Otoe-Missouria Tribal Reservation

The Otoe-Missouria Tribe arrived here in two parts. About 234 members of the Quaker band reached the new reservation in present Noble and Pawnee counties in autumn 1881; the Coyote band, which had moved onto the Sac and Fox reservation in 1880, later rejoined them. Despite the tribe's resistance, the land was allotted beginning in the 1890s, and 514 people held allotments by statehood in 1907. The Indian Claims Commission paid for nineteenth-century cessions in 1964 and 1967. A 1984 constitution set up a seven-member council at Red Rock, and the tribe holds an annual encampment each July.

What the plaque says

Otoe-Missouria Tribal Reservation The Otoes were prairie-dwellers and Hunters. They migrated from the Lake Michigan area to Iowa then to Nebraska in 1700. The Missouria merged with the Otoe Tribe in 1798. Removal to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) began October 5 with arrival at the present site October 23, 1881 on 129,113 acres of land purchased and conveyed in trust by deed July, 1893 from the Cherokees. Oklahoma Historical Society 1981

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Standing Bear Park & Museum — 13 mi
  An eight-acre park and museum in Ponca City built by six area nations and the town together, under a 22-foot bronze of the Ponca chief whose 1879 case made Native people persons at law.
• Marland Mansion — 16 mi
  E. W. Marland's 55-room Palace on the Prairie, built in Ponca City from 1925 to 1928 on oil first struck on a Ponca allotment, and lived in for only about three years.
• Pawnee Nation Museum — 18 mi
  The Pawnee Nation's own museum in Pawnee, keeping the Nation's objects and the record of a military tradition it traces from the Pawnee Scouts of 1864 to the code talkers of World War II.
• Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School — 20 mi
  Perry's museum of the Cherokee Outlet, in a town that was a land office on bare prairie the morning of September 16, 1893 and held some 25,000 people that night.

More markers nearby

• 101 Ranch — 6.7 mi
• Pawnee Agency — 18 mi
• Boundary Line 1889 and 1893 — 23 mi
• Run of '89 North Boundary — 28 mi