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Pawnees

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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.
[North American French Pani, of Illinois origin, ultimately of Siouan origin.]
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The Kansas resemble the Osages in features, dress, and language; they raise corn and hunt the buffalo, ranging the Kansas River, and its tributary streams; at the time of the captain's visit, they were at war with the Pawnees of the Nebraska, or Platte River.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
If the Pawnees are the owners of this land, then white and red are here by equal right.
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
A band of Pawnees or of Blackfeet may occasionally traverse it in order to reach other hunting-grounds, but the hardiest of the braves are glad to lose sight of those awesome plains, and to find themselves once more upon their prairies.
A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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