From 1541, the region today called Nebraska was explored by the Spanish, with Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, then French trappers who have put in place a fur trade with the Indians. So it was populated by Sioux, Pawnees, Utes, Comanches and Cheyennes Indians.
Controlled by the French in the eighteenth century, territory was sold in 1803 to the United States, at the same time as Louisiana. Between 1804 and 1806, the Lewis and Clark expedition made it possible to explore a part of this region. Bellevue, founded in 1823, was Nebraska’s first permanent colony. The colonization of Nebraska started thanks to the tracks that crossed it towards the West coast. This colonization was accelerated with the construction of the Union Pacific transcontinental railroad (1854-1867). Nebraska integrated the United States into March 1, 1867, as the thirty-seventh American state. Indians have definitely been introduced in 1880.
A serious agricultural crisis touched this state of the Midwest in the late nineteenth and century. Again very affected by the crisis of the 1930s (see economic crisis of 1929), the state’s economy, however, renewed with prosperity after the Second World War, benefiting in particular from the construction of dams over Missouri and its tributaries, and from the exploitation of deposits petroleum.
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Universities, scientific institutions in Nebraska
University of Nebraska
The university in Nebraska has its largest locations in Lincoln, Omaha and Kearney. Furthermore, she has a college location with a focus on technical agriculture in Curtis, Ne. The university was founded in Lincoln in 1869 and then expanded more and more. The Omaha University site was established in 1908, but it was not until 1968 that it officially joined the Nebraska State University system. The Kearney site specializes in undergraduate training. It was built in 1905 and joined the school system in 1991. The medical center, which is also located in Omaha, was founded in 1880 and then officially declared part of the State University in 1902. Lincoln University had 22,000 students this year; in Omaha there were 15,000.
The following faculties are represented:
• Agricultural sciences
• Information science and technology
• Engineering sciences
• Communication sciences, fine arts and media
• Public affairs and communities
• Arts and sciences
• Pedagogy
• Medicine
• Economics
University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln
The University of Nebraska State Museum offers the world’s largest collection of mammalian fossils. Whether mammoth bones, fossil elephants, historical weapons, a planetarium with laser shows or the exhibitions on American history – natural history hearts will beat faster here.
