26 Facts About Pawnee people

Pawnee people are a Central Plains Indian tribe that historically lived in Nebraska and northern Kansas but today are based in Oklahoma.

Collectively, the Pawnee people referred to these tribes as cararat or cahriksuupiiru? ("enemy").

The Pawnee people were occasionally at war with the Comanche and Kiowa (ka?iwa) further south.

Many Pawnee people warriors enlisted to serve as Indian scouts in the US Army to track and fight their old enemies, the Sioux and Cheyenne on the Great Plains.

Pawnee people operate two gaming casinos, three smoke shops, two fuel stations, and one truck stop.

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Pawnee people generally settled close to the rivers and placed their lodges on the higher banks.

The lodge was semi-subterranean, as the Pawnee people recessed the base by digging it approximately three feet below ground level, thereby insulating the interior from extreme temperatures.

Pawnee people women are skilled horticulturalists and cooks, cultivating and processing ten varieties of corn, seven of pumpkins and squashes, and eight of beans.

Pawnee people priests conducted ceremonies based on the sacred bundles that included various materials, such as an ear of sacred corn, with great symbolic value.

Pawnee people believed that the Morning Star and Evening Star gave birth to the first Pawnee people woman.

The first Pawnee people man was the offspring of the union of the Moon and the Sun.

The Pawnee people kept the girl and cared for her over the winter, taking her with them as they made their buffalo hunt.

Pawnee people directed the men to carry out the rest of the ritual, including the construction of a scaffold outside the village.

Pawnee people's was shot quickly with arrows by all the participating men and boys to hasten her death.

Pawnee people found nothing but straw-thatched villages of up to two hundred houses and fields containing corn, beans, and squash.

Pawnee people summoned the "Lord of Harahey" who, with two hundred followers, came to meet with the Spanish.

These Pawnee people put up ferocious resistance when Coronado started to plunder their villages.

Pawnee people met "Escansaques", probably Apaches, who tried to persuade him to plunder and destroy "Quiviran" villages.

Pawnee people became synonymous with "Indian slave" in general use in Canada, and a slave from any tribe came to be called Panis.

Pawnee people reported that the Pawnee were a strong tribe and good horsemen, but, located at the far end of every trade route for European goods, were unfamiliar with Europeans and were treated like country bumpkins by their southern relatives.

Under pressure from Siouan tribes and European-American settlers, the Pawnee people ceded territory to the United States government in treaties in 1818, 1825, 1833, 1848, 1857, and 1892.

Pawnee people won a "hard fought" defensive battle around 1830, when they defeated the whole Cheyenne tribe.

The Pawnee people Scouts took part with distinction in the Battle of the Tongue River during the Powder River Expedition against Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho and in the Battle of Summit Springs.

The Pawnee people had gained permission to leave the reservation and hunt buffalo.

In 1874, the Pawnee people requested relocation to Indian Territory, but the stress of the move, diseases, and poor conditions on their reservation reduced their numbers even more.

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The Pawnee people continue to practice cultural traditions, meeting twice a year for the intertribal gathering with their kinsmen the Wichita Indians.