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

Districts by County

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