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Nebraska's STATE
HISTORY
Thanks to spear points discovered in Nebraska, archaeologists know that people have lived here for at least 13,500 years. Native American tribes developed many thousands of years after those first inhabitants arrived, including the Cheyenne, Lakota and Dakota Sioux, Omaha, Oto, Pawnee, Sauk, and Ponca. The Omaha, Ponca, Winnebago, Oglala Sioux, and Santee Sioux still exist in Nebraska today.
French and Spanish explorers tried to claim the land starting in the 1500s but left much of the area unexplored. In 1803 France sold the area to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
some of the first settlers to live there were some on the Oregon trail ,A rough 2170-miles route that people cross in covered wagons. In 1862, during the civil war, the homestead act offered families 160-acre parcels of land in the west in exchange for buildings on and farming the land for five years. The Nebraska territory population grew quickly, And the territory became a state in 1867.
Thats The State History !
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