Early History of Lincoln
Northwest Arkansas was once the home of the Osage tribe known in their native language as Ni-U-Kon-Ska or People of the Middle Waters. The tribes' land once stretched from Indian Knoll near the mouth of the Green River in Kentucky through much of Oklahoma; their land consisted of the junction of the Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Wabash, Arkansas, and Illinois drainage systems, thus the name of The People of the Middle Waters. By early 1900 the tribe was mostly located in the Northwest region of Arkansas and oil-rich Oklahoma, however, they were forced to share the land with the displaced Cherokee known in their language as Anigiduwagi meaning principal People. In 1828 a treaty with the United States government was signed which granted land in Oklahoma to the Cherokee people
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