Pawnee

Paw·nee  (pô-n)

n. pl. Pawnee or Paw·nees

1.

a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting the Platte River valley in south-central Nebraska and northern Kansas, with a present-day population in north-central Oklahoma. The Pawnee comprised a confederation of four relatively independent tribes living in permanent villages.

b. A member of this people.

2. The Caddoan language of the Pawnee.

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[North American French Pani, of Illinois origin, ultimately of Siouan origin.]

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Pawnee [pɔːˈniː]

n

1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -nees, -nee a member of a confederacy of related North American Indian peoples, formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas, now chiefly in Oklahoma

2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of these peoples, belonging to the Caddoan family

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Paw•nee (pɔˈni)

n., pl. -nees, (esp. collectively) -nee.

1. a member of an American Indian people living along the Platte River and its tributaries in Nebraska during the first half of the 19th century: confined to a reservation in the Indian Territory in 1874–75.

2. the Caddoan language of the Pawnees, closely related to Arikara.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Pawnee - a member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma Caddo - a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas
	2.	Pawnee - the Caddoan language spoken by the Pawnee Caddoan, Caddoan language, Caddo - a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo