“The first people who occupied this area looks like the Otoe in Johnson County and the Pawnee in Pawnee County,” Vicky Gobber said to begin her presentation on the history of Elk Creek. “They got along with each other and with the white settlers, too. It seems their main enemy was the Sioux. . . . I remember my grandma talking about the generations before her, how they’d be baking and turn around…