Pawnee Morning Star Sacrifice
Now as the children died and their parents wailed among the huts, the Skidis knew that they had sinned; they were no better than apostates. So they decreed a tribal…
Pawnee Reputation
"On the other side of the camp—a curious contrast—guns and ammunition were being distributed, as there were reports of the Pawnees being collected some twelve miles in advance. The Pawnees have the name of…
Pawnee Reputation
The view of the Pawnee as a treacherous and predatory people was inculcated in the 1840s with the publication of Fremont's journals and Hastings's and Ware's guidebooks for emigrants. In…
Pawnee Missionaries
The Pawnee came under the influence of the missionary frontier after 1833. The Reverend John Dunbar and Samuel Allis served as mis- sionaries to the Pawnee from 1834 to 1846.…