In 2011, there were approximately 3,200 enrolled Pawnee and nearly all reside in Oklahoma. Their tribal headquarters is in Pawnee, Oklahoma, and their tribal jurisdictional area includes parts of Noble, Payne, an

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The Pawnee operate two gaming casinos, three smoke shops, two fuel stations, and one truck stop. Their estimated economic impact for 2010 was $10.5 million. Increased revenues from

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The Pawnee were divided into two large groups: the Skidi / Skiri-Federation living in the north and the South Bands (which were further divided into several villages). While the Skidi / Skiri-Federation were the most populous group of Pawnee, the Cawi / Chaui Band of the South

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• Big Spotted Horse, 19th-century warrior and raider
• Brett Chapman, attorney and Native American rights advocate
• John EchoHawk, lawyer and founder of the Native American Rights Fund, older cousin of Walter Echo-Hawk (below)

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• The film Dances with Wolves features Pawnee people, as adversaries and unfavourably.
• In the novel The Revenant (novel)and

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• Pawnee mythology

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Before metal or horses
The ancestors of the Pawnees were speakers of Caddoan languages, who had developed a semi-sedentary neolithiclifestyle in valley-bottom lands on the Great Plains. Unlike other groups of the Great Plains, they had a

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