Pawnee (Or Pani) Indians

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 483 words | Copyright

Pawnee (Or Pani) Indians, four bison‐hunting Plains tribes, formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas, on the Platte and Republican rivers, whose descendants reside in Oklahoma. They had highly developed tribal and ceremonial systems and a rich mythology. Their folk tales were collected by Grinnell (1893) and a scholarly Mythology was published by G.A. Dorsey (1906). The Pawnee figure in Irving's Tour on the Prairies, Cooper's The Prairie, and Custis's The Pawnee Chief.

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