Pawnee
Americannoun
plural
Pawnees,plural
Pawnee-
a member of a confederacy of North American Plains Indians of Caddoan stock formerly located along the Platte River valley, Nebraska, and now living in northern Oklahoma.
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the Caddoan language of the Pawnee Indians.
noun
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a member of a confederacy of related North American Indian peoples, formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas, now chiefly in Oklahoma
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the language of these peoples, belonging to the Caddoan family
Example Sentences
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Chief Hotate often met Leslie Knope, deputy director of the Parks and Recreation department for the fictional city of Pawnee, to discuss use of the land.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2025
In one of my all-time favorite Parks and Recreation episodes, Leslie Knope excitedly tells the camera that the city of Pawnee will finally get fluoride in their water thanks to a merger with neighboring Eagleton.
From Slate • Sep. 29, 2024
“A story by itself makes it easy for somebody to say this was just one person’s experience,” said Ms. Echo-Hawk, who lives outside Seattle and is a citizen of the Pawnee Nation.
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2023
The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, involved more than 80 co-authors — including archaeologists and geneticists, as well as historians and scientists from the Lakota, Comanche and Pawnee nations.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2023
They didn’t look like the Osage, or even like the Cheyenne or the Pawnee.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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