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Pawnee · pawnee · Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma · Kitkahaki · Pitahawirata · Skidi · Čawî’ · Cawi’Pawnee
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In the record
The United States made 8 treaties and agreements that name Pawnee as a party, from Grand Pawnee at St. Louis (1818) to Treaty with the Pawnee (Table Creek), 1857.
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 5 cessions of land from Pawnee between 1833 and 1893: about 23 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 4 of them came through treaties and agreements. The largest was Land of the Pawnee (four confederated bands) in Nebraska and South Dakota, ceded 1857 (area 408), about 14 million acres, ceded under Treaty with the Pawnee (Table Creek), 1857.
Today, Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
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Official names
Peoples within this name
- KitkahakiPawnee (Latin)
- PitahawirataPawnee (Latin)
- SkidiPawnee (Latin)
- Čawî’Pawnee (Latin)
Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty or agreement23 million
- Act of Congress300 thousand
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
5 cessions. Follow Pawnee through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
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Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Party to 8
- Grand Pawnee at St. Louis (1818)1818
- Noisy Pawnee at St. Louis (1818)1818
- Pawnee Marhar at St. Louis (1818)1818
- Pawnee Republic at St. Louis (1818)1818
- Pawnee at Fort Atkinson, Council Bluffs (1825)1825
- Pawnee at Grand Pawnee Village, Platte River (1833)1833
- Pawnee (Grand Pawnee, Pawnee Loups, Pawnee Republicans, and Pawnee Tappage) at Fort Childs Near the Head of Grand Island on the South Side of the Nebraska or Great Platte River (1848)1848
- Treaty with the Pawnee (Table Creek), 18571857
Land recorded in this nation’s name 5, as named in the 1899 record
- Land of the Confederated Pawnee: Grand Pawnee, Pawnee Loup, Pawnee Republicans, Pawnee Tappaye residing on the Platt and Loup Fork in Kansas and Nebraska, ceded 1833 (area 191)1833
- Land of the Pawnee (four confederated bands) in Nebraska, ceded 1848 (area 270)1848
- Land of the Pawnee (four confederated bands) in Nebraska and South Dakota, ceded 1857 (area 408)1857
- Land of the Pawnee in Nebraska, ceded 1876 (area 590)1857
- Land of the Pawnee in Oklahoma, ceded 1893 (area 591)1876
Governed by 1
Present-day governments that carry this history 1
Sources
- pawneenation.org/pawnee-history/unclassified
the Čawî’ “Grand,” the Kitkahaki “Republican,” the Pitahawirata “Tappage” and the Skidi “Wolf.”
- govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-30/html/2026-01899.htmprimary record
Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
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