The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska is divided into districts. Each district has two elected representatives who serve on the Tribal Council. The Council is led by the Tribal Chair. For meeting schedules, please view our meetings page. The list of current representatives can be found here.
The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska operates within a designated “service area” covering fifteen counties. The Tribe has office sites located in five of these counties. Some services are restricted to the service area only.
The breakdown of Districts and Service Delivery Areas are below.
Service Delivery Area
Service area counties:
Nebraska: Boyd, Burt, Douglas, Hall, Holt, Knox, Lancaster, Madison, Platte, Sarpy, Stanton, Wayne
Iowa: Pottawattamie, Woodbury
South Dakota: Charles Mix
Service Delivery Area by District
District 1
Boyd, Holt, Knox (NE)
Woodbury (IA)
Charles Mix (SD)
District 2
Burt, Douglas, Sarpy (NE)
Pottawattamie (IA)
District 3
Hall, Lancaster (NE)
District 4
Madison, Platte, Stanton, Wayne (NE)
Map of Districts
Nebraska
Iowa
DISTRICT 1
Nebraska Counties
Antelope, Box Butte, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Cherry, Dakota, Dawes, Dixon, Holt, Keya Paha, Knox, Rock, Sheridan, and Sioux
Iowa Counties
Allamakee, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Clay, Clayton, Dickinson, Emmett, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Hancock, Howard, Humboldt, Ida, Kossuth, Lyon, Mitchell, O’Brien, Osceola, Palo Alto, Plymouth, Pocahontas, Sac, Sioux, Webster, Winnebago, Winneshiek, Woodbury, Worth, and Wright
Other Areas
Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, and all areas outside the United States of America
DISTRICT 2
Nebraska Counties
Burt, Cass, Douglas, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson, Sarpy, and Washington
Iowa Counties
Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Buchanan, Carroll, Cass, Cedar, Clarke, Clinton, Crawford, Dallas, Davis, Decatur, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Fremont, Greene, Grundy, Guthrie, Hamilton, Hardin, Harrison, Henry, Iowa, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Lee, Linn, Louisa, Lucas, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Mills, Monona, Monroe, Montgomery, Muscatine, Page, Polk, Pottawattamie, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Scott, Shelby, Story, Tama, Taylor, Union, Van Buren, Wapello, Warren, Washington, and Wayne
Other Areas
Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas
DISTRICT 3
Nebraska Counties
Adams, Buffalo, Butler, Chase, Clay, Dawson, Dundy, Fillmore, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gage, Gosper, Hall, Hamilton, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Jefferson, Kearney, Keith, Lancaster, Lincoln, Nuckolls, Perkins, Phelps, Polk, Red Willow, Saline, Saunders, Seward, Thayer, Webster, and York
Other Areas
Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming
DISTRICT 4
Nebraska Counties
Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Boone, Cheyenne, Colfax, Cuming, Custer, Deuel, Dodge, Garden, Garfield, Grant, Greeley, Hooker, Howard, Kimball, Logan, Loup, Madison, McPherson, Merrick, Morrill, Nance, Pierce, Platte, Scottsbluff, Sherman, Stanton, Thomas, Thurston, Valley, Wayne, and Wheeler
Other Areas
Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington