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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: Keepers of Tirawahut's covenant: The development and destruction of Pawnee culture Abstract: Racial turmoil in the 1860s and 1870s made life increasingly difficult for the Pawnee Indians to live within their ancestral central Plains homeland, where they had resided for hundreds of years. Chronic hunger, coercive assimilation, and enemy raids joined interracial conflict in having an unsettling effect on Pawnee land tenure. Despite the adversities facing them, they attempted to maintain a sacred way of life that, according to their system of beliefs, had been handed down from the first man and woman. Few historians have grasped the pervasiveness of religion in Pawnee culture. Their studies have presented these Indians as savages or creatures of economic considerations without looking beyond the stereotypes and the limitations of single interpretations. Most treatments of Pawnee history focus on the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century or the 1860s and 1870s, when intertribal warfare became a more important dimension of life. Those who discuss the Sioux as being the most disruptive force to enter Pawnee life have underestimated the impact of white American expansion in all of its forms--missionary, assimilation, territorial acquisition and settlement, extension of laws, political control, and domination. |
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- Myla Thyrza Vicenti Carpio - Arizona State University (2001)