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9 unusual facts about ''Pawnee''


Central City, Nebraska

The inhabitants just prior to the establishment of Lone Tree (Central City) were the Pawnee.

Eastern Plains

The Plains Indians that lived in the region included the Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Pawnee, and Sioux.

Mary Leader

Mary Leader (born 1948 Pawnee, Oklahoma is a poet, and former Assistant Attorney General of Oklahoma.

Massacre Canyon

The monument is located in a small park area with picnic tables and a visitor center that features exhibits about early pioneers, the tribal customs of the Sioux and the Pawnee people and a gift shop.

It was one of the last battles between the Pawnee and the Sioux and the last large-scale battle between Native American tribes in the area of the present-day United States of America.

Mr. Tucket

It is about 14 year old Francis Tucket who strays from his family's wagon on the Oregon Trail and is captured by the Pawnee.

Panismahas

The Panismahas or Panimaha were a sub-group of the Pawnee.

Pawnee, Illinois

Pawnee was also the home of Frank Hart, founding member of the band known as Atomic Opera.

Pawnee, Oklahoma

Ernest E. Evans, Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient for action as commander of Destroyer USS Johnston off Samar Island, Philippines, 1944


Antonio Valverde y Cosío

One of the Apaches also said him that the French build two villages among the Amerindians Pawnee, west of the Missouri River, as big as Taos in New Mexico.

Battle Creek, Nebraska

In 1859, following complaints of Pawnee depredations against settlers in the Elkhorn River valley, a combined force of Nebraska Territorial Militia under the command of General John Milton Thayer and 2nd U.S. Army Dragoons under Lieutenant Beverly Holcombe Robertson prepared to attack a Pawnee village.

Campaign Shake-Up

Ron decides to take up Ann's (Rashida Jones) proposal of creating sanitary water fountains, as Pawnee's citizens have a habit of wrapping their entire mouths around the spout.

Charles Augustus Murray

Murray spent several years travelling across Europe and America from 1835 and 1838, including several months with a Pawnee tribe in 1835.

Fort Orleans

He smoked a peace pipe to establish peace between the Padouca and the Missouri, Osage, Iowa, Pawnee, Oto, Kaw, and Omaha.

George E. Hyde

George E. Hyde (1882–1968) was the "Dean of American Indian Historians." He wrote many books about Indian tribes, especially the Sioux and Pawnee plus a life of the Cheyenne warrior and historian, George Bent.

George McGill

He died in St. Francis Hospital in Wichita in 1963 and was buried in Pawnee Rock Cemetery, in Pawnee Rock, Kansas.

Greg Pikitis

At the Pawnee town hall, Ann (Rashida Jones) talks excitedly about her upcoming Halloween party.

Iron Shell

He initially became prominent after an 1843 raid on the Pawnee, and became sub-chief of the Brulé under Little Thunder.

Leslie Knope

She is firmly committed to the belief that government should provide a service for its people, and regularly goes above and beyond for the benefits of Pawnee's residents - a belief that regularly clashes with her superior Ron Swanson, a staunch libertarian who feels all government should be privatized.

Melancthon Brooks Woolsey

Following the Civil War, Capt. Woolsey commanded the sloop-of-war Pawnee on the South Atlantic Station in 1867 and 1868.

Pawnee Rangers

Girls are not allowed to join the Rangers, so Leslie created the girls-only Pawnee Goddesses, with Ann (Rashida Jones), who is not fitting in too well, and April (Aubrey Plaza), whose morbid tattoo on her arm gets her the Goddesses' approval, as her assistants.

Pawnee Scouts

In November, 1876, General McKenzie led seventy Pawnee scouts and 800 cavalrymen into the Big Horn Mountains to attack a "well concealed" Cheyenne camp.

Reigart Bolivar Lowry

Early on May 24, 1861, as a force of federal troops from Washington D.C. approached by land and by gunboat, the captain of Pawnee, Stephen C. Rowan, acting without orders, dispatched Lieutenant Lowry to find the Confederate commander Colonel George H. Terrett and to demand his surrender.

Running Antelope

Perhaps one of the only American Indians depicted on U.S. paper money, the picture caused ill will as the Series 1899 $5 Silver Certificate pictured Running Antelope as a chief wearing a Pawnee head dress as the original Sioux head dress was too tall for the engraving.

Steinauer

Steinauer, Nebraska, village in Pawnee County, Nebraska, United States

Who Dat Girl

Ron Swanson is portrayed by Nick Offerman, who in this scene has attended a product release party for Snake Juice at The Snakehole, a club in the town of Pawnee partially owned by Tom Haverford, played by Aziz Ansari.

X Brands

X Brands played "Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah", a tall Pawnee Indian with a double-barrel shotgun who was Derringer's constant companion.


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