Pawnees

Pawnees, a tribe of American Indians (q.v.), who formerly resided in Nebraska, with branches extending into Kansas and Texas. They surrendered their lands south of the Platte by treaty in 1833; suffered much thereafter at the hands of their hereditary enemies, the Sioux; and in 1876 removed, only 2026 strong, to a reservation of 283,020 acres in Indian Territory. In 1887 they numbered only 918. See Grinnell's Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-tales (New York, 1889).