Blackbird Hill, Burial Site of Omaha Indian Chiefs

Washinga Sahba's grave. Blackbird Hill (Nebraska) was a traditional burial site of Omaha chiefs. The Omaha people migrated to the upper Missouri area and the Plains by the late 17th century from earlier locations in the Ohio River Valley. About 1770, the Omaha became the first tribe on the Northern Plains to adopt equestrian culture. The Omaha developed an extensive trading network with early European explorers and French Canadian voyagers. They controlled the fur trade and access to other tribes on the Upper Missouri River. Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Amerique du Nord, execute pendant les annees 1832-34. Karl Bodmer (February 11, 1809 - October 30, 1893) was a Swiss printmaker, lithographer, painter, illustrator and hunter. He accompanied the German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied on his Missouri River expedition. Bodmer was hired as an artist to record images of cities, rivers, towns and peoples they saw along the way, including the many tribes of Native Americans along the Missouri River and in that region

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