The Pawnee Indians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4039857 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert W Richmond, George E Hyde |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 300 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Indian Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-182X • E-ISSN: 1534-1828 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1183916 |
| OpenAlex | W2085546703 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
No assessment of the Plains Indians can be complete without some account of the Pawnees. They ranged from Nebraska to Mexico and, when not fighting among themselves, fought with almost every other Plains tribe at one time or another. Regarded as aliens by many other tribes, the Pawnees were distinctively different from most of their friends and enemies.George Hyde spent more than thirty years collecting materials for his history of the Pawnees. The story is both a rewarding and a painful one. The Pawnee culture was rich in social and religious development. But the Pawnees' highly developed political and religious organization was not a source of power in war, and their permanent villages and high standard of living made them inviting and 'fixed targets for their enemies. They fought and sometimes defeated larger tribes, even the Cheyennes and Sioux, and in one important battle sent an attacking party of Cheyennes home in humiliation after seizing the Cheyennes' sacred arrows. While many Pawnee heroes died fighting off enemy attacks on Loup Fork, still more died of smallpox, of neglect at the hands of the government, and of errors in the policies of Quaker agents. In many ways The Pawnee Indians is the best synthesis Hyde ever wrote. It looks far back into tribal history, assessing Pawnee oral history against anthropological evidence and examining military patterns and cultural characteristics. Hyde tells the story of the Pawnees objectively, reinforcing it with firsthand accounts gleaned from many sources, both Indian and white
Geography · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeology and Natural History · History
Negotiating nation
Lethal Treachery and the Imbalance of Power in Warfare and Feuding
Tree-Ring-Radiocarbon Dating at a Late Contact Period Kitkahahki Pawnee Site on the Central Great Plains, Usa
Evidence of the Spring Planting Ceremony to Evening Star and Her Sacred Garden
The Stone Site
Protohistoric Pawnee Lithic Economy
A Critical Test of the Central Plains Tradition Swidden Model Using Data from the Glenwood Locality
Caddoan Archaeology on the High Plains
Star Performances and Cosmic Clutter
Once Upon a Time
A Good Relationship, & Commerce
A késő neolitikum-kora rézkor átmeneti időszakának társadalomszerkezeti változásai az Alföldön
The Powers of the Heavens Shall Eat of My Smoke
The Inter-tribal Balance of Power on the Great Plains, 1760–1850
Scenes of exclusion
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,34 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2021 (40) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |