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took place, lasting four days....Each family, on arriving at their dwelling, held a private ceremony of thanksgiving. The annual hunt and its attendant ceremonies have been abandoned since 1873.

The Indian Commissioner in 1861 states: "Much of the progress observable in the condition of this tribe is attributable to their intelligent and exemplary chief, La Flesche" (the adopted son and successor of Um-pa-tun-ga), and to the excellent school in their midst."

...The Omahas have about 8000 acres under cultivation. The results of Omaha farming for the year 1884 amounts to 100,000 bushels of corn, 50,000 bushels of wheat, 30,000 bushels of vegetables, and over 30,000 tons of hay put up.

...As early as 1846 the Presbyterian Board undertook the establishment of a mission school for the benefit of the Omahas and Otoes.

In 1879 the agencies for the Omahas and the Winnebagos were Consolidated and the Government opened an industrial boarding school in a building that a few years before had been erected as an infirmary, which proved a failure, the Indians being unwilling to part with their old and sick.

It was largely the result of the energetic rule of Head Chief La Flesche and his corps of soldiers and police, that twenty years ago intemperance was so severely punished that no man dared to risk the terrible flogging given the drunkard.