Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Content:
The Pawnee are Native Americans who originally lived in what is now central Nebraska and central Kansas in the basins of the Platte and Republican rivers. The Pawnee spoke a Caddoan language. The focus is on the traditional way of life of the Pawnee. This file consists of 18 English language documents dealing primarily with traditional Pawnee ethnography for the period of 1850 to the 1920s. There is a slight focus in the file on materials dealing with the Skidi (Skiri) band of Pawnee. Probably the most comprehensive ethnographic information on the Pawnee as a whole is found in Weltfish, further supplemented with data from Smith, Grinnell, and the oral traditions described in Blaine. Major topics discussed in this file relate to culture history, ceremonialism, and religious beliefs. Other documents deal with more specific ethnographic topics such as music and songs; social organization; literature in the form of hero stories and folktales; and ethnoastronomy
Note:
Culture summary: Pawnee - Gerald F. Reid and John Beierle (file evaluation and indexing notes) - 1998 -- - The Hako: a Pawnee ceremony - Alice Cunningham Fletcher - 1904 -- - The Pawnee Ghost Dance hand game - Alexander Lesser - 1933 -- - Pawnee music - Frances Densmore - 1929 -- - Pawnee Indian societies - by James R. Murie - 1914 -- - Notes on Skidi Pawnee society - by George A. Dorsey ... and James R. Murie, prepared for publication by Alexander Spoehr ... - 1940 -- - Annual ceremony of the Pawnee medicine man - Ralph Linton - 1923 -- - Description of the manners and customs of the Pawnee Indians - By Br. D. Z. Smith - 1852 -- - An introduction to Pawnee archaeology - Waldo Rudolph Wedel - 1936 -- - Pawnee, Blackfoot and Cheyenne: history and folklore of the Plains - George Bird Grinnell - 1961 -- - The lost universe: with a closing chapter on 'The universe regained' - Gene Weltfish - 1965 --
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- Ceremonies of the Pawnee - by James R. Murie ; edited by Douglas R. Parks - 1989 -- - The Pawnee Indians - by George E. Hyde ; Foreword by Savoie Lottinville - 1974 -- - The chief and his council: unity and authority from the stars - Von Del Chamberlain - 1992 -- - Pawnee passage, 1870-1875 - by Martha Royce Blaine - 1990 -- - Pawnee hero stories and folk-tales, with notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people - by George Bird Grinnell - 1889 -- - When stars came down to earth: cosmology of the Skidi Pawnee Indians of North America - by Von Del Chamberlain - 1982 -- - The dispossession of the Pawnee - David J. Wishart - 1979 -- - The Pawnee sacred bundles: their present use and significance - Martha Royce Blaine - 1983
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Pawnee
Author information:
Dorsey, George Amos 1868-1931
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Weltfish, Gene 1902-1980
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Densmore, Frances 1867-1957
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Linton, Ralph 1893-1953
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Grinnell, George Bird 1849-1938
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