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Valley View Cemetery
 

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Valleu View Gate

Valley View Cemetery (looking East)

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Monument located on the east end of the Valley View Cemetery.

"In memory of the 403 Pawnees reburied by the Pawnee Nation September 11, 1990
Rest in Peace Forever"

Columbus Telegram
Mon. 21 May 2007
Special to The Telegram

"New Pawnee marker dedication Saturday"

GENOA - The Genoa Indian School Foundation will be dedicating a new Pawnee Reburial Marker at Genoa at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Reburial Location on the east end of the Genoa Cemetery.

     The new marker notes the 1990 and 1995 reburials as well as metal veteran markers for the six Pawnee Scouts and flagpoles for the American and Pawnee Flags.

     Pat Leading Fox, head chief of the Pawnee, will speak and sing. Roger Welsch will address the gathering, as will Michael Smith, director of the Nebraska State Historical Society.

     The Pawnee Nation lived in the Genoa area from 1859-1874. The 1857 Treaty of Table Rock designated the area, which now is Nance County, as the Pawnee Reservation. Genoa became the Pawnee Agency. The reburial site is in the middle of what was the combined village of the four Pawnee Tribes, in which more than 2,000 Pawnee lived.

     In August 1864, after a Chief's Council, 76 Pawnee joined the U.S. Army. They furnished their own horses with the government providing arms, rations and $20 a month. This group served for several months. Frank North's Regular Co. of 100 Pawnee Scouts was organized in the winter of 1864-65 and went on the Powder River Indian Expedition in 1865.

     The Pawnee Scouts served as guards for the Union Pacific Railroad and in several major battles. The last of the Pawnee Scouts were discharged from Sidney Barracks in April 1877 with no provisions to return home. The North brothers accompanied them to Great Bend, Kan., where Maj. North died of malarial fever. The Pawnee Scouts had to return home on their own. A veteran memorial marker honors each of the six Pawnee Scouts buried at the site.

     For more information on the reburial, call (402) 993-6636.

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