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The Search for Little Bow's Village, Cedar County Nebraska (2015)
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The Corps of Discovery Expedition traveled the stretch of the Missouri River that today divides Nebraska from South Dakota in August of 1804. From their vantage point on the river, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark both note an abandoned Omaha village at the mouth of what is now Bow Creek, Cedar county, Nebraska. The explorers' map identifies the village as having been founded by Omaha leader Little Bow after branching off of the main Omaha tribe. Since the 1940's archeogists have made attempts...