What is "pawnee"

Usage examples of "pawnee".

Zendt told of how Purchas had killed the Pawnee and how the Pawnee had slain the emigrant couple, leaving behind two children.

Pawnee faced eight of Our People, and when it came time to counting coups it was agreed that Lame Beaver had gained one, because he had touched the Pawnee who held the gun, but that evening he lost whatever honor he had gained, for as he was helping Blue Leaf raise their tipi he heard an ominous rattle, close to his wife.

North American Indian tribes which gave its name to the Caddoan stock, represented in the south by the Caddos, Wichita and Kichai, and in the north by the Pawnee and Arikara tribes.

This, it seemed to Joe, was India before the opening of the Suez Canal, the India of brandy pawnee and chota hazri washed down with a jug of claret.

Center City as you have occupied those of Pondereek and Blackwell and Newkirk and Fairfax and Pawnee and Perry and Billings and Lucien and Redrock and Gray Horse and Pawhuska and Ponca City itself?

Pawnee were better, but they were inferior to those made by the Dakota, Ponka, and Omaha.

And through it all, the Skidi Pawnee have remained strong and powerful because we have clung tightly to the ancient ways.

Bring her home and let her live among us and learn to think kindly of the Skidi Pawnee, so that she will plead our cause when she stands before Tirawa.

From there, she reasoned, it would be an easy matter to follow the Loup until they stumbled upon the Skidi Pawnee, the particular branch of the Pawnee tribe they had selected to study.

When Luke had told her they were no longer stopping until they found the Skidi Pawnee, she had been simultaneously relieved, triumphant, and disappointed.

The young chief of the Skidi Pawnee had not changed much since the time he had dragged Luke out of the weed-choked ravine where he had fallen after being almost clawed to death by a grizzly.

Once she reached the Skidi Pawnee, she would settle in and never leave until she had gotten what she came for.

Once married to a much-revered older warrior and friend of Wetara-sharo, then chief of the tribe, she had borne three sons, of whom the first had married into another branch of the tribe, the second had died honorably in a skirmish with the Sioux, and the third still lived among the Skidi Pawnee.

He dreaded the day when she finally discovered that the generally quiet, placid, agreeable Skidi Pawnee were as capable of violence as any other tribe of Indians.

The Skidi Pawnee always welcome those who come in friendshipbut how long will you stay?