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The dispossession of the Pawnee
Annals of the Association of American Geographers • 69 (3) • Published In 1979 • Pages: 382-401
By: Wishart, David J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The traditional way of life of the Pawnee on the central Great Plains was based on horticulture and the hunting of bison. After 1830, missionaries and government agency officials put great pressure on the Pawnee to change their life style in accordance with Euro-American concepts of civilization. Essentially this involved the transformation of the Pawnee into farmers, complete with a work ethic and a sense of property. Convinced of the validity of their own cultural norms, the Pawnee strongly resisted this attempt at acculturation. As white settlers pushed into Nebraska in the years following 1854, the Pawnee were confined to a small reservation where they were subjected to enforced acculturation, further encroachment on their land by the settlers, and persistent Sioux raids. In a last desperate attempt to preserve their traditional way of life, the Pawnee finally agreed to leave Nebraska in 1873 and move to Indian Territory in Oklahoma (p. 382).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Internal migration
- Hunting and trapping
- Tillage
- External trade
- External relations
- Public welfare
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Geographer
- 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
- 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
- 1800-1874
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Skidi (Skiri), Chawi, Kitkehahki, and Pitahauerat bands; northern Kansas and Nebraska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- David J. Wishart
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- gs1200296
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pawnee Indians