Ponca
Americannoun
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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
They were quiet again, smoking: the radio announcer dedicated a song to Chuck, a Consolidated Freightways driver zooming along the highway somewhere east of Ponca City.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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