PAWNEE (perhaps from the native word fer "

See also:

• HORN
• HORN (Lat. cornu; corresponding terms being Fr. cor, trompe; Ger. Horn; Ital. corno)
• HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)
• HORN, ARVID BERNHARD, COUNT (1664-1742)
• HORN, PHILIP DE MONTMORENCY, COUNT

horn," in allusion to their

See also:

• SCALPING

scalping

See also:

• LOCK (from the O. Eng. loc.; the word appears, in different forms, in many Teutonic languages, but with such various meanings as " hole," Ger. Loch, " lid," Swed. lock, &c.; probably the original was a root meaning " to enclose ")
• LOCK, MATTHIAS

lock, which was " dressed " so as to stand straight up)  , a tribe of North-American Indians of Caddoan stock . They formerly lived on the Platte river in Nebraska . They call . themselves Skihiksihiks (" men of men ") . They were a brave, war-loving tribe, whose history was one of continual strife with their neighbours . In 1823 their village was burned by the Delawares, and in 1838 the tribe suffered severely from small-pox, the 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 land except a strip on the Loup River . Here they lived till 1874, when they moved to a reservation in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), where they now are .