Wahgochtatta

The Wahgochtatta are the Otoe under the name they took after splitting from the Missouria; both peoples, with the Iowa and Ho-Chunk, once formed a Chiwere-speaking nation around the Great Lakes. It moved southwest before European contact, parting from the Ho-Chunk near Green Bay. After their chiefs quarreled, the Otoe separated from the Missouria on the Missouri, calling themselves Waghtochtatta.

Around 1760 they occupied earth-lodge villages on the Platte River, where in 1804 the Lewis and Clark Expedition held its first council with a Plains tribe, at the place later called Council Bluff. They hunted buffalo on horseback and grew maize, beans and squash.

Their first land cession to the United States came in 1830, and treaties of 1833 and 1836 stripped away most of their Missouri and Iowa country.