**The image(s) of the document may be omitted here because of copyright considerations** Numerous newspaper clippings offer news from the region around the Omaha and Winnebago Indian reservations in northeast Nebraska in the summer and fall of 1930. They include:

Official Program for the Thurston County Fair, special supplement to The Pender Times, Friday, August 22, 1930. The main attraction was A. F. Thaviu and his 'Spectacular Cycle of Hits,' a dance and music extravaganza.

'The Carnival - Gala Week is Spent by People of Decatur and Surrounding Territory,' The Decatur Herald, undated. A story wraps up a weeklong carnival, with much discussion of a 'hoochie-coochie' strip show. It is implied that the performers are American Indian women.

'The Local Field,' a society column from an unnamed paper, undated. Several of the items are circled in pencil. One in particular, concerning Mrs. Ida Scott, candidate for sheriff, underlines her name with the written note, 'Indian.'

An advertisement from an unnamed paper for the Winnebago Indian Pow Wow, July 19-27, 1930.

'Number of Indians in Nebraska is Rapidly Decreasing - Only 4,337 Redmen Left,' by the Associated Press, The Sioux City Sunday Journal, October 18, 1930. The article discusses the latest Commissioner of Indian Affairs report, which notes fewer than 5,000 American Indians were counted in the state.

A partial, undated article from an an unnamed newspaper, discussing the meeting of a certain federation. A pencil margin note reads, 'This meeting at Lincoln, Neb.' Dr. E. A. Bates, of Cornell University and formerly of the Office of Indian Affairs, tells the group that the federal government has embarked on a new policy toward American Indians, saying, 'no further attempts should be made to make white men out of Indians, but to make them better Indians.'

An undated article from an unnamed newspaper reports that the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Nebraska would be conducting an archaeological survey of prehistoric Indian sites in Nebraska, led by William D. Strong and assisted by Waldo Wedel, both later noted archaeologists.

'Indian Lands Will be Sold,' Sioux City Journal, Friday, October [31, 1930]. It reports that 138 tracts on the Omaha and Winnebago reservations will be auctioned off.

'Death Takes Indian, Wealthy Landowner' and 'Tribesmen Mourn Benjamin Walker at Funeral Rite,' The Omaha World-Herald, Sept. 25 and 27, 1930. The articles report on the death and funeral of Benjarim Walker, aka 'Little Bull' or 'Little Buffalo Bull.' An Omaha Indian and one of the richest men in the area, he is described as 'a man whose lifetime was spent in inducing his fellow Indians ... to adopt the best of the white man's customs and practices.' His age is given as either 85 or 95.

The obverse sides of some clippings are included.