He was believed to have taught the Pawnee people tattooing, fire-building, hunting, agriculture, speech and clothing, religious rituals ( including the use of tobacco and sacred bundles ), and sacrifices.

The Pawnee paid close attention to the universe and believed that for the universe to continue functioning, they had to perform regular ceremonies.

The Skidi Pawnee practiced child sacrifice, specifically of captive girls, in the " Morning Star ritual ".

The Pawnee practised an annual Morning Star Ceremony, which included the sacrifice of a young girl.

When the Pawnee priests would identify certain celestial bodies on the horizon, they would know that the Morning Star needed to be appeased with the sacrifice of a young girl.

The Skidi Pawnee practiced the Morning Star ritual regularly through the 1810s.

The universality of Sirius lore, even the Pawnee tribe of North America, and others, referred to Sirius as the ' Wolf Star ', indicates this Sothic Mythos may have extremely ancient roots, perhaps as old as the first humans to migrate from Africa.

They gave the portion in Range 15 West to Pawnee County ; the portion included in Ranges 11, 12, 13 and 14 to Barton County ; and the south half of the county, excepting the portion in Range 15, was added to Pratt County.

However, in 1857, the Pawnee signed a treaty whereunder they gave up the bulk of their Nebraska lands, save for a reservation on what is now Nance County, Nebraska.

The Pawnee warriors fought with exceptional ability, and the Cheyennes finally gave way and retreated from their village.

The first Pawnee man was the offspring of the union of the Moon and the Sun.

The first Territorial Capital of Kansas Territory was located in the boundaries of Riley County, in the former town of Pawnee.

Pawnee boasts Illinois ' first poet laureate, Howard B. Austin, as its adopted son.

Vero Beach was initially used as a center for design work under Fred Weick, with the first aircraft developed there being Piper's first agricultural aircraft, the PA-25 Pawnee, announced in 1958 and entering production the following year at Lock Haven.

The first session of the legislature was held in Pawnee, Kansas ( within the boundary of modern-day Fort Riley ) at the request of Governor Reeder.

The Rookery is the oldest building in Kansas and would be the office of the first territorial governor and thus the first capitol in Kansas from 1854 to 1855 when the capitol was moved to Pawnee, Kansas.

* Pawnee, Kansas Territory, first territorial capital 1855

As more young people learn English as their first language, the status of Pawnee declines towards extinction.

They built earthwork lodges to accommodate the sedentary nature of Pawnee culture ; each lodge " was at the same time the universe and also the womb of a woman, and the household activities represented her reproductive powers.

Located in the City Park of Indianola is the grave of a Pawnee woman who died of wounds received at the battle between the Sioux and Pawnee tribes at Massacre Canyon just east of Trenton, Nebraska.

The act of scalping featured prominently in some Westerns such as the 1966 Burt Reynolds spaghetti western Navajo Joe which opens with an Indian massacre in which a white profiteer scalps an Indian woman, and the 1990 film Dances with Wolves which shows Pawnee Indians with scalps hanging from their bow or lance and Timmons, the teamster is scalped after being ambushed by the Pawnee.

Old-Lady-Grieves-The-Enemy was a Pawnee woman who gained her name in the 19th century.

In 1720 the Villasur expedition from Santa Fe tried to reach the French on the Mississippi but was defeated by the Pawnee in eastern Nebraska.

Other slave-owning tribes of North America were, for example, Comanche of Texas, Creek of Georgia, the Pawnee, and Klamath.

Shortly after the bombing, while driving on I-35 in Noble County, near Perry, Oklahoma, McVeigh was stopped by Oklahoma State Trooper Charles J. Hanger from Pawnee, Oklahoma.

* July 2 – The Kansas territorial legislature convenes in Pawnee and begins passing proslavery laws.

* Kansas City, Kansas / Leavenworth, Kansas via the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad ( LP & W ) ( later called the Kansas Pacific ) controlled initially by Thomas Ewing, Jr. and later by John C. Fremont.

The Crow were raided for horses by the powerful Blackfoot Confederacy, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Pawnee, and Ute.

They raided other Indian tribes, primarily the Pawnee and Comanche, to get the horses they needed.

William Cody's autobiography refers to a Pawnee Indian legend: " While we were in the sandhills, scouting the Niobrara country, the Pawnee Indians brought into camp some very large bones, one of which the surgeon of the expedition pronounced to be the thigh bone of a human being.

Endemic warfare with the Crow, the Ute, and the Pawnee were a regular pattern of Cheyenne life until the 1860s.

Along their return to Fort Atkinson at the Council Bluff in Nebraska, the commission had successful negotiations with the Ota, the Pawnee and the Omaha.

* Pawnee speak a Caddoan language.

In the 16th century Francisco Vásquez de Coronado had an encounter with a Pawnee chief.

The 1857 Treaty with the Pawnee, their range was reduced to an area around Nance County, Nebraska.

In 1874 the tribe was relocated to land in the Cherokee Outlet in Oklahoma Territory, in Pawnee County, Oklahoma.

Tribal Headquarters are in Pawnee, Oklahoma.

Oklahoma City ( Pawnee: Uukuhuuwasiri ) is the capital and the largest city in the U. S. state of Oklahoma.

Pawnee people ( also Paneassa, Pari, Pariki ) are a Caddoan-speaking Native American tribe.

They are federally recognized as the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma.

Historically, the Pawnee lived along outlying tributaries of the Missouri River: the Platte, Loup and Republican rivers in present-day Nebraska and in northern Kansas.