Native American Artifacts and Clothes from Joslyn Art Museum.

 There are many artifacts from Native American life displayed at the Joslyn Art Museum.  They are artistic but they also show Native American life.

Ancestor artist, Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Bandolier bag

Haida button blanket with rib design

Ancestor artist, Umoho (Omaha) breech clothe

left Valery Killscrow Copeland, Oglala Lakota, Honoring Blanket
right, Okta Keen (New Moon) Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, Wearing Blanket with Appliqué

beaded baby mocassins, top Cheyenne, bottom Great Plains

left, ancestor art, Southern Plains, women awl case
middle, Ocheti Sakawin (Sioux), beaded pouch with turtle design
right, elk horn and flint knife

First Moon Ceremony Regalia
girl's buffalo robe behind

Ancestor Artist, Ocheti Sakowin (Sioux) Beaded Dress

Ancestor Artist, Umoho (Omaha) beaded shirt

Pipe Tomahawks

Book Review: Wicked Omaha by Ryan Roenfeld

 Wicked Omaha by Ryan Roenfeld, History Press, Charleston, SC, 2017.

If you want to read exerpts from old news papers about the prostitutes, thieves, murderers, gamblers, suicides and other low-lifes of Omaha this is the place to find it.  The book covers until about 1915 when the red light disgtricts were finally dispersed, and the prostitutes then found in many different areas.  It mentions Tom Dennison's political machine as partially responsible for tolerating the vices.  It also says he was behind the 1919 riot.  

For a long time prostitution was tolerated in Omaha.  The prostitutes were fined $5 at the first of the month, and then free to do what they wanted, sort of like a license.  

I found the book lacking.  I find the most disturbing thing about Omaha history was the racism betwen ethnic groups. The 1909 riot of Irish focing Greeks out of the community, and the race riots of 1919 are examples of this and barely mentioned in the book.  However the author obviously spent considerable time going through newspapers to report on the underbelly of Omaha history.

The Martin Luther King Story from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Pedestrian Bridge

 The Marting Luther King Jr. Pedestrian Bridge starts from the Kiewit Luminarium parking by the Sioux Warrior Statue.  Some of the markers are faded and hard to read, especially the Omaha side.  However this does give a good overview of Martin Luther King's crusade which resulted in greater civil rights.  He was murdered in Memphis in 1968 at the age of 39.

South Omaha Stockyard History as per Historical Plaques by MCC So Omaha

 I ran into a couple Magic City plaques and wanted to share them.  I know there are others as they are numbered.  If anyone knows how to find them please let me know.