Culture

              Omaha Native Americans were made to have to live on a reservation in Northern Nebraska and Western Iowa.  In 1800 smallpox killed one-third of the people including Cheif Blackbird.  Blackbird was the main person who traded with the Spanish and French.  Blackbird thought that fostering a good relation ship with explorers.  After the Louisiana Purchase the Omaha people started to have and sell scissors, axes, top hats, and buttons.  Also most women if lucky lived up to thirty.  Semi permanent villiges usually only lasted eight to fifteen years.

               Some french fur trappers found the Omahas on the east side of the Missouri River to trade.  Also when Luis and Clark come by ton-wa-tonga they started up a annual buffalo hunt.  In 1775 the Omaha's developed a new village.  The village was in Ton-wa-tonga, and is called "The Big Village".  The village was probably near Homer,Nabraska.  The Big Village was the village for Cheif Blackbird.