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PAWNEE.
"THE Pawnee language is
vernacular to two nations, the Pawnees proper and the Ricaras or Aricaras,
sometimes called Black Pawnees. The former inhabit the country on the
Platte west of the Ottoes and
Omahows, and have three villages on the Loup, a northern tributary of the
Platte. The Ricari villages
are situated on the Missouri, in lat. 46° 30'. Both nations
cultivate the soil: their collective popula-
tion may amount to 9500 souls. The language has distinctive
peculiarities of its own, and differs from
any of the other idioms of its class that have hitherto been examined.
The Gospel of
St.
Mark has
been translated by the mies. stationed on the Platte, under the sanction of
the American Board:
but although the Pawnees have evinced great readiness to receive religious
instruction, it does not
appear that any printed edition has yet been issued in their
language."--The Bible of Every Land. (1860, Second Edition)
Samuel Bagster [Info only]
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