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
And, though he’s the governor of Florida — known more for its beaches and theme parks than calf-roping or bull riding — DeSantis’ later stop in Ponca wasn’t, as they say, his first rodeo.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
Army forcibly removed Chief Standing Bear and about 700 Ponca members from the Niobrara River Valley in what is now northeastern Nebraska.
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
He stood high among the Poncas, because of his clan, the Wa-zha-zhe—a clan that could cure rattle-snake bites and work other wonders.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
The Poncas were originally part of the Omaha tribe, to whom they are related.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by W. H. Jackson
It conceives of the Poncas as quietly laughing in their sleeves, during their ostensibly amicable visit, in anticipation of the summary retribution that they expected to inflict upon their oppressors.”
From Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by George Bird Grinnell
Mr. Schurz had been informed that the Poncas were willing to go.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar
Finally the Poncas remained by themselves, low down on the Niobrara River in northern Nebraska.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
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