Pawnee Tribe Research Paper

How old do you think Pawnee Females have to be to get married? Most of the Pawnee people are found in Nebraska and Kansas. We are going to be talking about the Pawnee location , tradition, and facts of life. The Pawnee People were mostly located in Nebraska And Kansas, they lived in houses called Earthern houses. These are hut type houses they made out of large logs and covered but dried grass or other type of bushes. The Pawnee people were moved from there reservation in
Oklahoma to Nebraska and Kansas were they live today. In the 18th century, more than 60,000 members of the Pawnee tribe inhabited the area along the north platt rive in Nebraska area. The tribe is made up of 4 different bands, band 1 the Chaui meaning Grand, band 2 …show more content…
Research in their language shows that they were related to the Tyne Wichita and other Caddoan groups in Texas. Pawnee priests conducted ceremonies based on the sacred bundles that included various materials, such as an ear of sacred corn, with great symbolic value. The Pawnee believed that the Morning Star and Evening Star gave birth to the first Pawnee woman. The first Pawnee man was the child of the Moon and the Sun joining. They planted their crops according to the position of the stars, which would need to be the correct timing per season. Like many tribal bands, they sacrificed maize and other crops to the stars. They believed that when a person died their bodies would carried toarrana which is one of their gods. In Conclusion, the Pawnee where located mostly in the south and east of the US. The women of the tribe were to be married at 15 years of age, but the Men where to wait till they were 18 to marry. Women that were Married were usually the ones that did all the labor, the young single women, where just learning their responsibilities, and the older women were to take care of the children. The Pawnee people have came a long way over the years and involved in many