pawnee in English

noun
1
a member of an American Indian confederacy formerly in Nebraska, and now mainly in Oklahoma.
Trained as a scientist, not a moralist, Grinnell logged the words, actions, practices, history, and religious beliefs of Blackfeet, Pawnees , and Cheyennes as accurately and faithfully as possible.
2
the Caddoan language of the Pawnee.
The Caddoan language family includes the Caddo, Wichita, Pawnee , and Arikara languages, which are found on the central Plains.
adjective
1
relating to the Pawnee or their language.
His vivid portrayals of Huron, Apache and Pawnee warriors make history come alive.

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1. Chapman-Black and Poteet Funeral Home in Cleveland & Pawnee, OK provides funeral, memorial, aftercare, pre-planning, and cremation services in Cleveland, Pawnee and the surrounding areas

2. Caddoan (5) Caddo (A language of United States) Northern Caddoan (4) Wichita (A language of United States) Kitsai-Proto-Pawnee (3) Kitsai (A language of United States) Proto-Pawnee (2) Arikara (A language of United States) Pawnee (A language of United States) Browse by

3. The Caddoan language family is linguistically related to the Pawnee, Arikara, Wichita, and Kichai languages

4. The Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland is located in north central Colorado.

5. –Amling, Caddo, Cape Fear, Cherryle, Desirable, Elliot, Kanza, Kiowa, Lakota, McMillan, Oconee, Pawnee, Stuart, Sumner, Zinner

6. A predominant geologic feature within the Pawnee National Grassland, the Buttes rise 300 feet above the prairie.

7. We've received this letter from a collection agency about an outstanding debt from the Pawnee Public Library.

8. The Couloirs on the North Face of Little Pawnee share a common approach to the small tarn southeast of Blue Lake

9. The Pawnee: Mythology (Part I) by George Amos Dorsey (1906) "The Bullbats then said: “ Enter our lodge and remain there

10. The Pawnee Buttes are located in the northeast corner of Weld County, Colorado, approximately 13 miles south of the Wyoming border

11. Caddoan definition: a family of Native American languages, including Pawnee , formerly spoken in a wide area Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

12. Caddoan definition: a family of Native American languages, including Pawnee , formerly spoken in a wide area Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

13. Alights on the Cloud (), also known as Touching Cloud,: 91 was killed in combat by one of the Pawnee during an intertribal battle in 1852

14. Caddoan: 1 n a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo Synonyms: Caddo , Caddoan language Types: Aricara , Arikara the Caddoan language spoken by the Arikara Pawnee the Caddoan language spoken by the Pawnee Wichita the Caddoan language spoken by the Wichita Type of: American Indian , American-Indian

15. Caddoan language: 1 n a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo Synonyms: Caddo , Caddoan Types: Aricara , Arikara the Caddoan language spoken by the Arikara Pawnee the Caddoan language spoken by the Pawnee Wichita the Caddoan language spoken by the Wichita Type of: American Indian , American-Indian

16. When he was 19 years of age, the Pawnee people were forced to give up their 23-million-acre (9.3 million ha) homeland to make room for settlers.

17. ‘The Caddoan language family includes the Caddo, Wichita, Pawnee, and Arikara languages, which are found on the central Plains.’ noun 1 A member of any of the Caddoan peoples.

18. ‘The Caddoan language family includes the Caddo, Wichita, Pawnee, and Arikara languages, which are found on the central Plains.’ noun 1 A member of any of the Caddoan peoples.

19. Small-town civil servant Leslie Knope works tirelessly to improve her hometown; with an abundance of idea binders, heaps of diner waffles and the stalwart help of fellow employees, Leslie Bushwhacks through bureaucracy to make Pawnee a better place.

20. The known prehistoric corvid genera appear to be mainly of the New World and Old World jay and Holarctic magpie lineages: Miocorvus (Middle Miocene of Sansan, France) Miopica (Middle Miocene of SW Ukraine) Miocitta (Pawnee Creek Late Miocene of Logan County, US) Corvidae gen. et sp. indet.

21. Alights on the Cloud was in the leading party of warriors in an attack on a hunting camp of Pawnee foes in what is now Kansas.He is known for riding into battle in an unusual sort of metal armor hidden under his war shirt, which stopped the arrows of the

22. Blackfeet Indians, Siksika Tribe, Siksika Indians (‘black feet’, from siksinam ‘black’, ka the root of oqkatsh, ‘foot’.The origin of the name is disputed, but it is commonly believed to have reference to the discoloring of their moccasins by the ashes of the prairie fires; it may possibly have reference to black-painted moccasins such as were worn by the Pawnee, Sihasapa, and other