Interesting Facts The Pawnee sacrificed one young girl each year to Morning Star until 1736. In 1850 the Pawnee nation was diminished by cholera, smallpox, and Sioux attacks. The Pawnee were excellent hunters. The Pawnee would chase the buffalo down hills before they had horses        because that was easier. The Pawnee gave up their Nebraska land and moved to reservations in Oklahoma. The Pawnee thought that the stars at night were gods. There were four Pawnee bands: the Chaui, Kitikahki, Petahauiria, and Skidi. There are 2,000 Pawnee people left today.

The Pawnee also had something called the Sacred Bundle.  The story goes that a young child was asked, by her father, to keep this sacred bundle through the war that was going on.  The little girl was able to keep the bundle safe, but at the end of the war her family died. The child grew into an adult and passed the bundle onto her daughter.  The bundle is used as a Pawnee tradition linked to planting and harvesting.  Bundles contain tools necessary for the rituals that go along with the Pawnee harvesting ceremonies. This is one myth that we learned about the Pawnee Indians.  Lewis and Clark met the Pawnee Indians in what is the state of Nebraska today during their trip to the West.