Pawnee Definition

pô-nē
pawnees
noun
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.
Webster's New World
The Caddoan language of these peoples.
Webster's New World
(law) One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.
Wiktionary
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Wiktionary
pronoun
A near-extinct language of North America.
Wiktionary
adjective
Of the Pawnees or their language or culture.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Pawnee

Noun

Singular:
Pawnee
Plural:
pawnees

Origin of Pawnee

  • North American French Pani of Illinois origin ultimately of Siouan origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • pawn +"Ž -ee

    From Wiktionary

Pawnee Sentence Examples

  • Cheyne, Genesis and Exodus, referring to Dorsey, Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee, pp. 2, 80 ff.

  • The resultant legislature (at Pawnee, later at Shawnee Mission) adopted the laws of Missouri almost en bloc, made it a felony to utter a word against slavery, made extreme pro-slavery views a qualification for office, declared death the penalty for aiding a slave to escape, and in general repudiated liberty for its opponents., The radical free-state men thereupon began the importation of rifles.

  • Its name is said to be a corrupted form of "Pani" (Pawnee), the name of a tribe of Indians.

  • The Caddoan family was represented by the Middle or Pawnee Confederacy; the Siouan family by its Dakota, Thegiha, Chiwere and Winnebago branches.

  • Before the Civil War there were no very general troubles between Indians and whites, despite constant frontier difficulties, except the bloodless " Pawnee War " of 1859-60; but in 186364 the Indians rose rather generally along the frontier, and many settlers were killed.

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