Crossword clues for pawnees
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pawnees \Paw`nees"\, n. pl.; sing. Pawnee. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of pawnee English)
Usage examples of "pawnees".
The Omahas were once one of the numerous and powerful tribes of the prairies, vying in warlike might and prowess with the Sioux, the Pawnees, the Sauks, the Konsas, and the Iatans.
But the case is far different with regard to the Osages, the Kanzas, the Pawnees, and other roving hordes beyond the frontiers of the settlements.
The Pawnees were a strong tribe, only moving into the area now, and where they originated I did not know.
They were Pawnees, seeking a place to rest and gather themselves for another fight.
The Spanish had raided among them for slaves, something I knew was forbidden by their king, and the Pawnees wanted no more of it.
Two soldiers fell, arrows in their throats, and suddenly the Pawnees raised up around them.
He could have seen the lodges of the Pawnees, but they were some distance off.
I had wished for the iron shirts for my men, but the Pawnees had taken them, although I still had my own, found so long ago upon the banks of the Arkansas, and it was a better, tighter coat of mail than these.
The Pawnees had been lying in wait and had attacked before the soldiers were halfway to their village.
At eleven o'clock sent off George Drouilliard and Peter Cruzat with some tobacco to invite the Otos if at their town, and Pawnees if they saw them, to come and talk with us at our camp, etc.
This boy is a Maha, and informs that his nation were gone to the Pawnees to make a peace with that nation.
Peter Dorion a commission to act with a flag and some clothes and provisions and instructions to bring about a peace with the Sioux, Mahas, Pawnees, Poncas, Otos, and Missouris, and to employ any trader to take some of the chiefs of each, or as many of those nations as he could, particularly the Sioux, down to Washington.
Two villages are made up of ten [nine] different tribes of the Pawnees, who had formerly been separate, but by commotion and war with their neighbors have become reduced, and compelled to come together for protection.
His people had listened to what we had told them, and fearlessly went out to hunt in small parties believing themselves to be safe from the other nations, and were killed by the Pawnees and Sioux.
These are obliged to proceed in armed caravans, and are subject to murderous attacks from bands of Pawnees, Camanches, and Blackfeet, that come scouring upon them in their weary march across the plains, or lie in wait for them among the passes of the mountains.