When a tribe migrated west it split into what became a Omaha tribe & a Quapaw tribe. A Quapaw settled within what is currently Arkansas and the Omaha tribe, called "those going against the wind or current" settled touching a Missouri river in what is now northwestern Iowa. Conflict sustaining a Sioux and a splitting hit of section of the tribe into the Ponca, forced the Omaha tribe to retreat to an vicinity as much as Bow Creek, Nebraska.

French Fur trappers found a Omaha on the eastern side of the Missouri Flow of any stream in the mid-1700s. A Omaha were believed to keep close at hand ranged from either a Cheyenne River in South Dakota to the Platte River in Nebraska. Lewis and Clark found the tribe on the american side of the Missouri south of what is today Sioux City.

Omaha villages were established & lasted from either 8 to 15 years. At length, disease and/or Sioux aggression would inflict a tribe to move. Villages were established touching what is today Bellevue, Nebraska; Homer, Nebraska; and on the Papillion River.

50 to 100 lodges comprised a village & a timberland custom of bark lodges was replaced by owning the idea of tipis borrowed from either a Sioux & earthen lodges borrowed from a Pawnee.

When a buffalo disappeared from a plains a Omaha experienced to progressively rely upon the U.S. government and its new culture.

A go good-blooded Omaha Chief & granddad of Logan Fontenelle, Chief Large Elk, is buried inside Bellevue Cemetery around Bellevue, Nebraska.