Welcome to the Omaha and Ponca Digital Dictionary public access site. Here you can explore the Omaha and Ponca languages. The primary data come from the unpublished materials collected by James Owen Dorsey (1848-1895) and housed in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. You are able to search on Omaha and English terms. This is a resource that will continue to grow with regular updates.
This site is a creation of the University of Nebraska Omaha Language Class in collaboration with the University of Nebraska Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. It is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities grant #PD-50007-08
For a more advanced view of the words in this dictionary, visit the Omaha Ponca Digital Dictionary Database View.
The compilers of this dictionary web site are solely responsible for its contents.
