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Pawnee Nation
Sign in to saveAlso known as Pawnees, Chaui, Kitkehahki, Pitahawirata, Skidi, Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
Native American Nation
Wikidata facts
- Native language
- Pawnee
- Religion
- Native American Church
- Located in
- Oklahoma
- Population
- 6800
- Image
- Sharitarish - Wicked Chief - by Charles Bird King, c1822.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pawnee
- topic's main category
- Category:Pawnee
- different from
- Shawnee
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Encyclopedic overview
The Pawnee, also known by their endonym Chatiks si chatiks (which translates to "Men of Men"), are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains that historically lived in Nebraska and northern Kansas but today are based in Oklahoma. They are the federally recognized Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, who are headquartered in Pawnee, Oklahoma. Their Pawnee language belongs to the Caddoan language family.
Historically, the Pawnee lived in villages of earth lodges near the Loup, Republican, and South Platte rivers. The Pawnee tribal economic activities throughout the year alternated between farming crops and hunting buffalo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pawnee Nation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.