Niobrara
Americannoun
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It was a desire to have his son buried in their homeland in Nebraska’s Niobrara River Valley that resulted in the return of Chief Standing Bear and 29 others and their subsequent arrest.
From Washington Times • May 12, 2023
Standing Bear was arrested in 1878 for leaving the tribe’s Oklahoma reservation to fulfill a promise he made to bury his eldest son back in their tribe’s homeland in Nebraska’s Niobrara River Valley.
From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2021
By the end of the day, the Niobrara and other tributaries had filled the reservoir behind the Gavins Point Dam, near Yankton, South Dakota, and Mr. Remus faced his decision.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2019
Fort Hays State University undergraduate Kris Super found the new Ichthyornis specimen in 2014, unearthing it from the 82- to 87-million-year-old-rocks of Kansas’s Niobrara Chalk.
From National Geographic • May 2, 2018
A dam across the Missouri River in Nebraska silted up so disastrously that a noisome ooze began to pour into the town of Niobrara, eventually forcing its permanent abandonment.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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