Pawnee
Americannoun
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Pawnees,
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Pawnee
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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.
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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
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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
Jerry was often the butt of jokes at the show’s fictional Pawnee, Ind., government office, but was also happily married with kids and a wife who looked like a supermodel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
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
The strongest earthquake on record in Oklahoma was a magnitude 5.8 near Pawnee in September 2016.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Cavalry soldiers, ninety-seven Cheyenne, Kiowa, Pawnee, and Sioux Indians, another fifty Cossacks and Hussars, 180 horses, eighteen buffalo, ten elk, ten mules, and a dozen other animals.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
You have to ford numerous rivers, and the Shoshones, Pawnees and Sioux, were extremely adept at helping the pioneers make these fords.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 12, 2015
He and most of the 2,000 other Kaws, Pawnees, Otos and Osages present had come in first-class automobiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once the treasures were back in hand, the Pawnees asked the scientists what they had learned.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Act II a band of Sioux chased a band of Pawnees, then performed a Sun Dance.
From Time Magazine Archive
THE project of removing the Pawnees from their reservation on the Loup River in Nebraska appears to have been first heard of in the year 1872.
From Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by George Bird Grinnell
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