Pawnee
[paw-nee]
- 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.
- the Caddoan language of the Pawnee Indians.
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Examples from the Web for pawnee
Contemporary Examples
Her grandfather had been a physician and healer who—according to family lore—married a descendant of the Osage or Pawnee tribes.
Pawnee said farewell to the aggressively healthy Chris Traeger and tropical fish Ann Perkins.
Historical Examples
Therefore, in the Hako, the Pawnee ceremony, the ear of corn is painted with blue.
Every animal was gone, including the one Pawnee Brown had ridden.
The Boy Land BoomerRalph Bonehill
I'll get square with you some day, Pawnee Brown, mark my words!
The Boy Land BoomerRalph Bonehill
Then, before Pawnee Brown could stop him his pistol flashed in the fire-light.
The Boy Land BoomerRalph Bonehill
She would have liked to assist Pawnee Brown, but could not see how it could just then be done.
The Boy Land BoomerRalph Bonehill
Pawnee
- plural -nees or -nee a member of a confederacy of related North American Indian peoples, formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas, now chiefly in Oklahoma
- the language of these peoples, belonging to the Caddoan family
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Word Origin and History for pawnee
Pawnee
Indian tribes of the Caddoan family, formerly inhabiting the plains of Nebraska, 1778, from Canadian French pani, from a Siouan language, e.g. Oto panyi.
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