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  • Although the name Ponka did not appear in history before 1700 it must have been used for many generations earlier, since it is an archaic designation connected with the social organization of several tribes and the secret societies of the Osage and Kansa, as well as the Ponka.

    The Siouan Indians 1882

  • Ponka: Read about online, for the most part… But many of the above books are classics that I have been wanting to pick up for a long time.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • Ponka: Read about online, for the most part… But many of the above books are classics that I have been wanting to pick up for a long time.

    DO YOU BUY POETRY? THE RAW DATA 2008

  • Ponka and Joe she drove like a slave master, and even her father, when he could not understand her wishes, she impatiently banished from her room.

    The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills Ralph Connor 1898

  • The Company had sought to bring him in by making him an honorary member, but he refused to be drawn from his home far up among the hills, where he lived with his little girl Gwen and her old half-breed nurse, Ponka.

    The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills Ralph Connor 1898

  • "Ponka and Joe, of course, go along; but even without them she is as safe as if surrounded by the Coldstream Guards, but she has given them up for some time now."

    The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills Ralph Connor 1898

  • Ponka and her son Joe grovelled in abjectest adoration, while her father and all who came within touch of her simply did her will.

    The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills Ralph Connor 1898

  • Through this warfare, more than a quarter of the Ponka lost their lives.

    The Siouan Indians 1882

  • Their hunting ground extended westward and southwestward, chiefly north of the Platte and along the Elkhorn, to the territory of the Ponka and the Pawnee (Caddoan); and in 1766 Carver met their hunting parties on Minnesota river.

    The Siouan Indians 1882

  • Ponka, according to Miss Fletcher, the mythic thunder-bird plays a prominent, perhaps dominant rôle, and the cedar tree or pole is deified as its tangible representative.

    The Siouan Indians 1882

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