Editing Indianola, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Indianola was [[plat]]ted in 1873.<ref name="CALMIT">{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/redwillow/indianola/ | title=Indianola, Red Willow County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=22 August 2014}}</ref> The community was named after [[Indianola, Iowa]], the former hometown of an early settler.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlas_EPVGFEC | title=Nebraska Place-Names | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | author=Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. | year=1960 |isbn=0-8032-5060-6 | pages=117}} A [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc 1925 edition] is available for download at [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ University of Nebraska—Lincoln Digital Commons.]</ref> In its early days, Indianola was the county seat of Red Willow County. After the railroad opted to locate its midpoint terminal on the [[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]] to [[Denver]] route in [[McCook, Nebraska|McCook]] rather than in Indianola, the seat was moved there and Indianola declined.<ref name="CALMIT" />

Located in the City Park of Indianola is the grave of a [[Pawnee people|Pawnee]] woman who died of wounds received at the battle between the Sioux and Pawnee tribes at [[Massacre Canyon]], just east of [[Trenton, Nebraska|Trenton]]. The woman was originally buried northwest of town on a bluff overlooking Coon Creek. In the 1970s, it became obvious that erosion would eventually destroy her gravesite, and in 1975 she was reburied in the park, with representatives of the Pawnee tribe participating in the ceremony.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040702174632/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/markers/texts/pawnee_womans_grave.htm "Pawnee Woman's Grave".]}}  {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/19990129073714/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.htm Nebraska State Historical Society.]}}  Retrieved 2010-09-09.</ref>