The Yutan Oto Indian Village

The man the plaque calls Chief Iatan was Sų Manyi Kathi, Prairie Wolf in Chiwere, a Bear clan Otoe born about 1785 whose name was also written Shaumonekusse and Ietan. Accounts say he rose by his deeds as a warrior rather than by birth. In 1819 he danced his war honours before Stephen Long's expedition, and in 1821 he travelled to Washington with a delegation that met President James Monroe, bringing his youngest wife, Eagle of Delight. Charles Bird King painted them both, and his portrait now hangs in the White House Library.

What the plaque says

The Yutan Oto Indian Village Spanish colonial correspondence from 1777 noting the presence of an Oto Indian village on the Platte likely refers to the Yutan site, named after the Chief Iatan. Yutan would have been the first Indian settlement seen by fur trappers and military expeditions traveling up the Platte Valley to the Rocky Mountains. In 1833 the village was the site of a treaty between the Oto, Pawnee, and Delaware, and in 1835 the Oto abandoned the site. Two decades later, the reservation period began for the tribe. Nebraska State Historical Society

Where it stands

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