where Omaha Central High School now stands overlooking
the downtown area of present-day Omaha. The Oto were
promised rights to the buildings in Winter Quarters
 when the Saints moved on to the Rockies. Interestingly,
the Omaha Indians urged the Saints to build Winter
 Quarters about 10 miles further north, in the vicinity
of old Fort Atkinson. Thus, they tacitly admitted the
 Oto Indians owned the land the Mormons were occupying.
Summer Quarters was built and farm land developed north
and west of old Fort Atkinson by the Mormons on traditionally
Mormon Omaha lands to provide them some inheritance of
buildings when the Saints moved on to the Great Basin.      Some of the activities and some of the comments of the
Saints in the Missouri Valley distinctly convey the
impression of a settling in, a relaxation and an at-ease
 atmosphere which Major Miller might well have considered.