Talk:Niobrara River

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Ponca pronunciation is disputed. This should be resolved. I will copy here my citations and explanations for the Talk:Niobrara, Nebraska and Talk:Nebraska pieces.

The pronunciation of Niobrara in Ponca is given in three places in Dorsey (1890):

Dorsey, J. O. (1890). The egiha language, the speech of the Omaha and Ponka tribes of the Siouan linguistic family of North America Indians. Contributions to North American Ethnology. Washington, D. C., U.S. Government. 6, pp. 374, 379, 405.

For references including Omaha and Ponca phonology, see the following:

Boas, F. (1906). Notes on the Ponka grammar. International Congress of Americanists 15, Quebec, Dussault & Proulx.

Dorsey, J. O. (1890). The egiha language, the speech of the Omaha and Ponka tribes of the Siouan linguistic family of North America Indians. Contributions to North American Ethnology. Washington, D. C., U.S. Government. 6.

Eschenberg-Bad Moccasin, Ardis (2005) The article system of Umoⁿhoⁿ. (SUNY Buffalo dissertation) balshan (talk) 10:19, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

South Dakota
I've reverted a series of good-faith edits that added a statement to the effect that the Niobrara flows through 0.12 miles of South Dakota before entering the Missouri.

First and foremost, we need citations for this: not just "I looked at the map", but some kind of official document. The map may not be accurate: for instance, I just looked at the USGS topo map at mapper.acme.com, and it shows a clearly-defined Nebraska-SD border running north of Goat Island, in the Missouri between Yankton and Vermillion. In fact, the status of Goat Island wasn't resolved until 2016, and the resolution involved turning it over to the National Park Service rather than assigning it to either state or partitioning it between them. Point is that the state boundary isn't as clearly defined as it looks on the Google map; and complicating things, the point at which the Niobrara enters the Missouri undoubtedly varies with the level of the latter river. Without citations from some kind of very official source, we shouldn't include this.

Even if we can document that it's really, officially the case that the Niobrara runs through a fraction of a mile of South Dakota, a detailed explanation of that shouldn't be in the lead section, which is supposed to be a summary of the most pertinent facts in the article. Put it in the body of the text, with citation(s). Ammodramus (talk) 20:30, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Running Water
Numerous accounts during the settlement period where it was know as the "Running Water." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A601:20F3:E701:1C05:8AE0:23A4:BC29 (talk) 02:09, 9 September 2018 (UTC)