Pawnee

Pawnee, Native American tribe of Caddoan linguistic stock who inhabited river valleys of what is now Nebraska and Kansas (16th–19th centuries). They had an elaborate religion, including a supreme being, and for a time performed human sacrifice to their god of vegetation. They lived by farming and buffalo hunting. By 1876 they had ceded all their land to the U.S. government and were settled on a reservation in Oklahoma.