Ponca

[ pong-kuh ]

noun,plural Pon·cas, (especially collectively) Pon·ca for 1.
  1. a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.

  2. the Siouan language of the Ponca, mutually intelligible with Omaha.

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How to use Ponca in a sentence

  • The council decided to go with the Poncas, and the next day we fitted up our wagons for the journey.

  • The terrible stories of the Cheyennes and the Poncas are very mild chapters in the history of our Indian policy.

    Shadows of Shasta | Joaquin Miller
  • All the visiting chiefs were invited as well as the ruling chiefs of the Poncas, twenty-two in number.

  • A more recent authority says that Poncas and Omahas never left the aged and infirm on the prairie.

    Folkways | William Graham Sumner
  • The reserve selected for them contains 90,735 acres and was paid for at the same price as that of the Poncas.