Twelve thousand people on the Platte and the Loup — reduced and removed within two generations.
Not an ending: pressed by Lakota raiding — the Massacre Canyon attack of August 1873 the worst of it — by settler encroachment and by population collapse, the Pawnee themselves petitioned to leave Nebraska, and most of the nation had gone to Indian Territory by 1875. They continue as the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, holding a tribal jurisdictional area across Noble, Payne and Pawnee counties.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Pawnee — the shape you scrub through changes in 1500 · 1857 · 1875.
A narrative history of the Pawnee on the Platte and the Loup and their rapid reduction and removal.
A detailed reconstruction of Pawnee culture, ceremony and the village year.
Era sweeper covering the long history of indigenous resistance to colonialism across North America; contextualizes the Chichimeca War within the broader pattern of Spanish-indigenous conflict.