Book
The Pawnee Indians
University of Oklahoma Press • Norman • Published In 1974 • Pages: xii, 372
By: Hyde, George E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a scholarly and well documented standard history of the Pawnee Indians from early historic times (ca. 1550) to the late 1800s. The presentation of the material in this study is highly detailed in nature and deals primarily with the topics of early Indian-white contacts, relationships with neighboring tribes -- particularly in terms of territorality and warfare, the imposition of the reservation system on the Pawnee by the U.S. government, and their eventual removal to Indian Territory in Oklahoma in the 1870s. The author is highly critical throughout this work of the manner in which the Indian Agency handled affairs on the reservation and the way in which they attempted to restructure Pawnee society to conform to what they considered appropriate. In overview this work '…looks far back in tribal history, assessing cautiously the values in oral history for as long as a century and a half. It looks critically not only at white motives but at Pawnee cultural characteristics and military patterns' (p. vi).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- External relations
- Public welfare
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Pawnee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1500-late 1800s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Skidi (Skiri), Chawi, Kitkahahki, and Pitakahaki bands; northern Kansas and Nebraska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by George E. Hyde ; Foreword by Savoie Lottinville
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72009260
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pawnee Indians