page_title: Effects of white settler contact on the Pawnee tribe
section_title: Loss of land
hierarchical_section_title: Effects of white settler contact on the Pawnee tribe / Loss of land
caption_attribution_description: Tribal territory of Pawnee, Ponca, Omaha, Oto, Kansa peoples (labeled in green) and contemporary Indian Reservations (labeled in orange)
context_page_description: Secondly, despite generally having peaceful relations with settlers, there was a loss of life from European-introduced diseases. Lastly came the adoption of European customs, and culture.
  The Pawnee are a tribe of North American Indigenous people. The tribe was known for peaceful relations with white settlers, earning the classification of a "friendly tribe". The Pawnee were made up of four bands or subtribes: the Kitkehahki, Chaui, Pitahauerat, and Skidi. These bands lived apart from each other, giving the collective tribe a nature of decentralization.
context_section_description: The Pawnee lived on a river in what is now Nebraska for the entirety of their existence before European contact in the 1540s and well into the 19th century. However, over time the Pawnee ceded most of their land in Nebraska to the United States government through19th century treaties. The four Pawnee subtribes gave up their lands south of the Platte River in an 1833 treaty. The tribe was then forced onto a small reservation area on the Loup Fork of the Platte River in an 1857 treaty. By 1874, the tribe had lost all of its land in Nebraska and had been moved to Oklahoma.
caption: The Pawnee lived on the Platte River until they were removed from Nebraska by the United States government in the late 19th century.
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