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• In 1838 they numbered about 10,000 souls, according to an estimate by houses by the missionaries Dunbar and Allis, and the estimate is substantially confirmed by other authorities of the same period, one putting the number as high as 12,500.
• In 1702 the Pawnee were estimated by Iberville at 2,000 families.
• In 1883 the Woman's National Indian Association established a mission on the Pawnee reservation in Oklahoma, which in 1884 was transferred to the Methodist Episcopal Church, under whose auspices it is still in operation.
• Through all the vicissitudes of the 19th century the Pawnee never made war against the U. S. On the contrary they gave many evidences of forbearance under severe provocation by waiting, under their treaty agreement, for the Government to right their wrongs, while Pawnee scouts faithfully and courageously served in the U. S.
• Their migration was not in a compact body, but in groups, whose slow progress covered long periods of time.
• When the Pawnee territory, through the Louisiana Purchase, passed under the control of the U. S., the Indians came in close touch with the trading center at St Louis.
• The Wichita’s and the Pawnees migrated northward and settled in the vicinity of the Arkansas River in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma in the seventeenth century.
• Twice a year the tribe went on their semi-annual buffalo hunt, at which time the household units broke down into smaller groups, each headed by an able hunter.
• Once the hunt was over and the tribe returned to the villages, they often did not necessarily settle into the same households as before.
• During their hunts, the Pawnees lived in skin-covered tepees.
• The Pawnees, because of their geographic location, had little direct contact with Europeans until much later than most other tribes.
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