Ponca
Americannoun
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Poncas,
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Ponca
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
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the Siouan language of the Ponca, mutually intelligible with Omaha.
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Rissa Pittman, then a store manager in Ponca City, Okla., said it was easier to staff her store after 2015 as wages improved and it became easier to train workers for promotions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Also, most of the songs are in the Ponca language, a sister to Osage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
Nebraska’s other statue, of Ponca Chief Standing Bear, was unveiled in 2019.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
In 1879, he and 29 other Ponca members traveled back to Nebraska, where they were arrested by the Army and imprisoned in Fort Omaha.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2023
A savage storm blew across the prairie and turned the streets into rivers of mud, so the private detective didn’t arrive in Ponca City until dark, only to discover that Brown wasn’t there.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
They and the Poncas secured the rights of citizens of the United States.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
The Pawnee has a song, constituting the finest satirical production in the language, relating to an attempt that the Poncas are said to have once made to recover their independence.
From Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by George Bird Grinnell
He said that the Great Father had ordered the Poncas to change homes.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
With the Pawnees were a few Poncas, Omahas and Otoes, so that there were about four thousand Indians in the camp.
From Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by George Bird Grinnell
The terrible stories of the Cheyennes and the Poncas are very mild chapters in the history of our Indian policy.
From Shadows of Shasta by Joaquin Miller
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