Today, we celebrate all of those
things that make Nebraska special: hard work, resolve, and love and
care for our neighbors. Millions of men and women settled Nebraska when our State was still
known as the Great American Desert. The Homestead Act made land
ownership accessible to anyone--to widows, to former slaves, to
immigrants. People of totally different backgrounds could legally own
160 acres of American land, and as long as they worked and lived on
that land for 5 years, they would get the deed. Your care of the land
is what mattered, not your background, not your status, not your family
name, but your willingness to work and to contribute and to feed the
world as our State still does today.
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