We're now on Day #27 of my daily US states threads in honor of the 250th anniversary of the country.Nebraska joined as the 37th state on 3/1/1867, the first to join after the war. Its name is derived either from the Otoe word Ni Brasage or the Omaha word Ni Bthaska, both meaning "flat water" and describing the Platte. It has a population of 2 Million and is 77.3k square miles in size. Its capital is Lincoln, and its largest city as well as former capital is Omaha. One president (Ford) is from here. The flat prairies of Nebraska were the home of many Native American tribes. The French early on allied with these natives for the purposes of trade. An attempt by the Spanish to impose force on the area against the French with the 1720 Villasur Expedition met with disaster. Ambushed by the Otoe and Pawnee, they left no survivors. Spain would never again attempt to seriously contest French power in the region. The first settlement was Ft. Carlos IV near present-day Homer in 1795 by the Spanish. The first American settlement was Ft. Atkinson in 1819, abandoned 8 years later. Forced removal of Native Americans resulted in settlers moving in under the Homestead Acts. Sod housing was popular due to a lack of available timber or brick in the flat grasslands of the state. Arbor Day was founded in Nebraska by Governor Morton in 1872. Omaha became a center of the civil rights movement, with the NAACP being founded there in 1912. The Omaha Race Riots of 1919 resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, the death of two white rioters, and the attempted lynching of Mayor Smith as the county courthouse was set ablaze. The Dust Bowl knocked Nebraska down economically, though it has since slowly recovered. Omaha today is also well known for its wildlife conservation, with a spectacular zoo, and of course Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom. Nebraska overall remains a quiet state which stays away from excitement, and that's not necessarily a bad thingWhat do you think of The Cornhusker State?
>>18616647It's just a giant farm field. There's nothing there and no important history.
the Mississippi thread is still going and has 85 posts
>>18616848The threads are not beholden to post count or whether or not they're purged from the catalog. They're daily threads, not OPs fault this board is slow as hell
>>18616681>state that gave the world 311>no important historyhttps://youtu.be/iiz6CAImJg4?si=1AmV9_yIcGpzcYE5
>>18616848Mississippi is an interesting state...
