The Otoe, like other Great Plains tribes,…
1841 CE
Between 1817 and 1841, the Otoe live around the mouth of the Platte River in present-day Nebraska.
During this time, the remaining Missouria, a kindred tribe, had joined them.
In the 1830s, the tribe was noted to have problems with alcohol, which was widely dispensed by traders.
Some Otoe would trade vital supplies for alcohol, to the point of becoming destitute.
As their dependence on alcohol grew, the men no longer hunted, but resorted to looting vacant Pawnee villages while the people were out hunting.
Christian missionaries had built a mission here in 1835, the Moses Merrill Mission.
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