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The Skidi or Skiri, also known as the Wolf Pawnee or the French Loup Pawnee are a band of Pawnee people. According to tradition in earlier times the Skidi were associated with the Arikara before the Arikara moved northward. The Skidi language was less related to the other Pawnee languages than the other three tribes languages were related to each other. In historic times the Skidi first lived on the Loup River in Nebraska.
The Skidi's main habitations were along the Platte River and some early explorers referred to this waterway as the Panimaha River, since this was before some Skidi migrated south and that name came to be associated with a different group. By the 1770s a group of the Skidi had broken off and moved towards Texas, where they allied with the Taovayas, the Tonkawa, Yojuanes and other Texas tribes. This group was referred to as the Panimaha. The Skidi are notable for their performance of a type of human sacrifice, known as the Morning Star ceremony, recorded for the last time in 1838.
Today, the Skidi Pawnee are enrolled in the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma.
Usage examples of "skidi".
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?
He has a notion of arranging to visit the Mandans after the two of you finally leave here, so he can compare their culture with the Skidi Pawnee.
There, he must fast and pray, begging the spirits to clear his vision and allow him to see the path he must walk, the best way to lead his people, the Skidi Pawnee.
I do not know what it means, but the dream has something to do with you and me, and with Pitale-sharo and the Skidi Pawnee.
Was it to betray my trust in you and teach me that the Skidi Pawnee are cowards and liars?