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PAWNEE (perhaps from the native word ...

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

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