Pawnees

Variant of Pawnee

noun

  1. pl. Pawnees or Pawnee a member of a group of North American Plains Indian peoples, formerly living in the valley of the Platte River in Nebraska and now living in N Oklahoma
  2. the Caddoan language of these peoples

Origin: NAmFr pani < Illinois < Iowa panyi

adjective

of the Pawnees or their language or culture
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