1. The Pawnee Indians

2. The Great
Plains
The Pawnee were part of the Plains Indian tribes. They lived in the central portion of the US in the region we now refer to as the Great Plains.

3. The Great
Plains
The Pawnee, who are sometimes called Paneassa, historically lived along the Platte River in what is now Nebraska.

4. Where did they live?
They had two types of homes: one that was permanent, or stationary, called an earth lodge.

5. Where did they live?
The other type that they used only when they hunted, called a tipi.

6. What did they wear?
Pawnee women wore deerskin skirts and poncho-like blouses. A Pawnee lady's dress and warrior's shirt was fringed and often decorated with beadwork and painted designs.

7. What did they wear?
The breech cloth and moccasins were the only essential parts of a man's clothing; leggings and a robe were worn in cold weather. Men did not usually wear shirts, but warriors sometimes wore special buckskin war shirts.

8. What did they wear?
The Pawnee wore moccasins on their feet, and in cold weather, they wore long buffalo-hide robes.

9. The Porcupine roach
The porcupine hair roach is a head ornament worn by men. It is typically constructed of porcupine guard hair (not quills) and hair from the tail of the white-tail deer.

10. What did they eat?
Pawnee women gathered wild nuts, berries, and seeds. They also grew corn, beans, pumpkins, and melons.

11. What did they eat?
The men were the hunters of the tribe, they hunted small birds, and fished in streams and rivers. The staple food for the Pawnee were Buffalo or Bison. One bison was enough to feed one member of the tribe for one year.

12. What did they eat?
Every part of the bison was used for something, no part of it was ever wasted. The meat was eaten, the skins were used to make clothing, blankets, and covers for the tipi’s, the bones were used to make tools and weapons.

13. The Great Plains
An estimated 60 million bison roamed the pre-Lewis and Clark plains. By 1900 white sportsmen had reduced their number to fewer than 300 in the United States. Today there are some 250,000 bison on the plains.