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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 976 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAWNEE (perhaps from the native word fer " See also:horn," in allusion to their See also:scalping See also:lock, which was " dressed " so as to stand straight up)  , a tribe of See also:North-See also:American See also:Indians of Caddoan stock . They formerly lived on the See also:Platte See also:river in See also:Nebraska . They See also:call . themselves Skihiksihiks (" men of men ") . They were a brave, See also:war-loving tribe, whose See also:history was one of continual strife with their neighbours . In 1823 their See also:village was burned by the Delawares, and in 1838 the tribe suffered severely from small-pox, the See also:death-See also:roll being, it is said, 2000 . By treaty in 1833 they had ceded their territory See also:south of the Platte, and in 1858 they surrendered all their remaining See also:land except a See also:strip on the Loup River . Here they lived till 1874, when they moved to a See also:reservation in See also:Indian Territory (now See also:Oklahoma), where they now are .

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