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.
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
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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
Unsurprisingly—if you know anything about the people of Pawnee or Knope’s nemesis, dentist Jeremy Jamm—this doesn’t go over well.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2024
Due, 31, is Cherokee and a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
Joe gave the same alibi Rose did: on the night of May 21, 1921, they had been together in Pawnee, seventeen miles southwest of Gray Horse, and had stopped at a rooming house.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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
At Pawhuska, Kaw Indians were joined by Osages and Pawnees in putting on war paint & feathers to welcome their fellow tribesman.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
When the Cheyennes heard this war-cry, which told them that the attacking party were Pawnees, their hearts became like water, and they turned and fled.
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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