Editing Neligh, Nebraska (section)

=== White Buffalo Girl ===
In May 1877, the [[Ponca]] tribe was forced to leave their homeland on the [[Niobrara River]] and move to [[Indian Territory]] in present-day [[Oklahoma]].  The rigors of the journey and resettlement led to the death of one-third of the tribe's population.  During the migration, an 18-month-old girl named White Buffalo Girl died near Neligh. Her father, Black Elk, asked the townspeople "to respect the grave of my child just as they do the graves of their own dead".  She was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Neligh, and her grave tended by the residents; in 1960, owing to the deterioration of the monument, the marker was set on a new foundation.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20061115223903/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/timeline/white_buffalo_girl.htm "White Buffalo Girl"]}}.  {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/19990129073714/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.htm Nebraska State Historical Society.]}}  Retrieved 2016-02-09.</ref>