A new exhibit on the history of the Big Blue Reservation in southern Gage County will open on May 25 at 10 a.m. The exhibit will include information about the Otoe/Missouria language and Otoe-Missouria culture including arts and lifestyles as well as traditional beliefs and rituals. Exhibit panels will feature letters, oral history and photographs.

A summer speaker series at the Beatrice Public Library will complement the exhibit. All programs are at 6:00 p.m.

July 11 Nancy Gillis “Voices of Native Women”
August 15 Nancy Gillis “The Homestead Act and the Plains Tribes”
August 29 Margaret Jacobs–Center for Great Plains Studies, Christina Goodsen- Otoe/Missouria Tribe, and Cory DeRoin- Otoe/Missouria Tribe “Walking in the Footsteps of our Ancestors: Re-Indigenizing Southeast Nebraska”
September 19 Kennetha Greenwood – Nyi Komi “Floral designs of Otoe-Missouria culture” (Zoom program)