Pawnee
noun/pɔːˈniː/
/pɔːˈniː/
(plural Pawnee, Pawnees)
- a member of a native North American people, many of whom live in the US state of OklahomaCultureThe Pawnee originally lived on the Great Plains of Kansas and Nebraska as farmers who also hunted buffalo. They helped white people who came into their land, and often fought the Sioux. The Pawnee were moved to a reservation (= an area of land kept separate for native North Americans to live on) in 1876 and very few Pawnee survive.Word Originfrom Canadian French Pani, from a North American Indian language.
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