The Poncas are a tribe of Indians of America, belonging to the group linguistic Sioux and tightly allied to the Omahas, Kansa and Osage. The Poncas migrated different times and they were established for a certain time near the lake Andes, in the South Dakota, for then to migrate anchor, toward the mouth of the river Niobrara, in Nebraska, where you/they would have stopped and established definitely. According to as brought by Lewis and Clark, you/they immediately were decimated by an epidemic of smallpox and reduced to only 200 individuals. For reasons that have not been entirely never clear, the territory of the Poncas was assigned to the Siouxes subsequently. Around 1870 their number had climbed to around 800 after the terrible epidemic of smallpox, but later, because of their enmity with the near Siouxes, you/they had moved to the reserves of the Oklahoma. You malnutrition and the new illnesses against which didn't have immunity killed half them. Few Poncas stayed in Nebraska instead and they looked for shelter near tribe with which had tied from ties of relative. The Poncas were always pacific with the white farmers. They lived in permanent villages of huts of earth. They were growers of corn hunters of buffalos. They adopted a certain number of customs of the Lowlands, included the Dance of the Sun, that they called the Dance of the Big Mystery.
