- Pawnee people - Wikipedia
Their Pawnee language belongs to the Caddoan language family Historically, the Pawnee lived in villages of earth lodges near the Loup, Republican, and South Platte rivers The Pawnee tribal economic activities throughout the year alternated between farming crops and hunting buffalo
- Pawnee History | Pawnee Nation
The Pawnee Nation has a long and proud history spanning more than 2000 years Before European contact, perhaps as many as 300,000 Pawnees inhabited the central plains of North America from Iowa along the Missouri River to the front range of Colorado and from southern South Dakota to central Kansas
- Pawnee | Tribe Nation | Britannica
Pawnee, North American Indian people of Caddoan linguistic stock who lived on the Platte River in what is now Nebraska, U S , from before the 16th century to the latter part of the 19th century
- Pawnee - World History Encyclopedia
The name Pawnee is thought to come from the Sioux word for "horn" and refers to the practice of Pawnee warriors greasing their hair so that it rose in a curve like a horn
- The Pawnee Indians – Farmers on the Plains - Legends of America
Descended from Caddoan linguistic stock, the Pawnee were unlike most Plains Indians as their villages tended to be permanent Initially, they were agricultural, growing maize, beans, pumpkins, and squash With the coming of the horse, they did begin to hunt buffalo, but it always remained secondary to agriculture
- Pawnees - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society
The Pawnee were one of the largest and most powerful of the groups living on the central plains Their territory extended north from central Kansas through Nebraska and included large hunting areas of the high plains to the west
- Pawnee (tribe) | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
All of those acquisitions have provided the Pawnee Tribe, today the Pawnee Nation, with both a physical and symbolic locus for tribal administration and social identity What Pawnees had not regained in a changing world was their former independence
- PAWNEE INDIAN FACTS
The Pawnee are a Native American tribe of Great Plains Indians who lived in what is now present-day Kansas and Nebraska The tribe is broken down into four main bands, which are the Chaui, Kitkehakhi, Pitahawirata, and Skidi
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