1. Ponca - Noun
2. Ponca - Proper noun
the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Ponca
a member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in northeastern Nebraska
Source: WordNetConflict between the Ponca and the Sioux/Lakota, who now claimed the land as their own by US law, forced the US to remove the Ponca from their own ancestral lands to Indian Territory in 1877, parts of the current Kay and Noble counties in Oklahoma. Source: Internet
But in Ponca City, Okla., just 18 miles south of the Kansas border, there's been edelweiss in the air. Source: Internet
In 1877, the Ponca people were exiled from their Nebraska homeland to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. Source: Internet
Most original residences are now gone, but pow wow grounds remain along Ponca Creek as well as an Episcopal Church. Source: Internet
Peterson’s action comes less than a week after Knox County and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska filed federal lawsuits against 25 drug makers and distributors of Opioid painkillers. Source: Internet
Ponca tied it in the bottom of the first and scored again to take a 2-1 lead before Wayne erupted for the first of back-to-back big innings. Source: Internet