History Of Oklahoma In Pictures

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Missouri children. Photo: 1899. – The Missouri lived in earth-covered homes along the river that bears their name. Sauk and Fox Indians came from the northeast to defeat them. Survivors from the Oto tribe joined the Missouri. In the 1860s there were about 400 Oto-Missouri remaining. They settled on a reservation on the Big Blue River. In 1881 this combined tribe moved to Indian Territory in modern Oklahoma. The 1991 census listed about 1,350 Oto-Missouri still living near Pawnee, Oklahoma.