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If you base your decisions on fiction like Hollywood's dreadful "Dances With Wolves", you would probably conclude something like that.
If you take time to study real Pawnee history, ethnology, language, traditions, stories, religion, decorative art, clothing and all other aspects of the tribe you can only conclude that they were typical of the Midwest/marginal Plains tribes. They have a rich and vibrant cultural history, an astonishingly rich and descriptive language, many amusing and very entertaining stories, a complex political structure and historically they were one of the major agricultural tribes before contact with Europeans.
Before making any kind of judgment about the Pawnee, read these books by people who took time to study the tribe in very great detail:
- The Lost Universe; Pawnee Life and Culture by Gene Weltfish
- Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales by George Bird Grinnell
- The Pawnees by Martha Royce Blain
- Pawnee Mythology by George A Dawsey
- The Pawnee Indians; Their History and Ethnology by John B Dunbar(*)
- Pawnee Music by Frances Densmore
- The Hako; A Pawnee Ceremony by Alice C Fletcher
- Pawnee Indians by George Hyde
- Two Great Scouts and Their Pawnee Battalion by George Bird Grinnell
- Skidi Pawnee Society by George A Dorsey
* Ironically, John Dunbar is the name of Kevin Costner's character in the far-from-accurate Dances with Wolves.
Finally, the link below takes you to a factualdocumentary on YouTube, that you may find interesting:
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