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===Bands=== [[File:Pawnee01.png|thumb|Tribal territory of the Pawnee and tribes in [[Nebraska]]]] ;South Bands: called ''Tuhaáwit'' ("East Village People") by the Skidi-Federation * '''Cáwiiʾi''' (S.B. dialect), '''Cawií''' (Sk. dialect), variants: '''Cawi''', '''Chaui''', '''Chawi''',<ref name=ohs/> or '''Tsawi''' (‘People in the Middle’, also called "Grand Pawnee") * '''Kítkehahki''' (S.B. dialect), '''Kítkahaahki''' (Sk. dialect), variants: '''Kitkahaki''', '''Kitkehahki''', or '''Kitkehaxki''' (‘Little Muddy Bottom Village’, ‘Little Earth Lodge Village’, often called "Republican Pawnee") ** Kitkehahkisúraariksisuʾ (S.B. dialect) or Kítkahaahkisuraariksisuʾ (Sk. dialect) (Kitkahahki band proper, literally ‘real Kitkahahki’ – the larger of two late 19th century divisions of the Kitkahahki band) ** Kitkehahkiripacki (S.B. dialect) or Kítkahaahkiripacki (Sk. dialect) (literally ‘Little Kitkahahki’ – a small Kitkahahki group that split off from the main band) * '''Piitahawiraata''' (S.B. dialect), '''Piítahaawìraata''' (Sk. dialect), variants: '''Pitahawirata''' or '''Pitahauirata''' (‘People Downstream’, ‘Man-Going-East’, derived from ''Pita'' – ‘Man’ and ''Rata'' – ‘screaming’, the French called them "Tapage Pawnee" – ‘Screaming, Howling Pawnee’, later English-speaking Americans "Noisy Pawnee")<ref name=Hyde1951/>{{rp|361}} ** Piitahawiraata, Piítahaawìraata, Pitahaureat, Pitahawirata,<ref name=ohs/> (Pitahaureat proper, leading group) ** Kawarakis (derived from the [[Arikara language]] ''Kawarusha'' – ‘Horse’ and [[Pawnee language]] ''Kish'' – ‘People’, some Pawnee argued that the Kawarakis spoke like the [[Arikara]] living to the north, so perhaps they belonged to the refugees (1794–1795) from [[Lakota people|Lakota]] aggression, who joined their Caddo kin living south) ;[[Skidi|Skidi-Federation]] or Skiri: the northernmost band;<ref name=ohs/> called themselves ''Ckírihki Kuuruúriki'' ("Look like wolves People") and were known by the South Bands as ''Ckiíri'' ("Wolf People") (both names derived from ''Ckirir /Tski'ki'' – "Wolf" or ''Tskirirara'' – "Wolf-in-Water", therefore called ''Loups'', ("Wolves") by the French and ''Wolf Pawnee'' by English-speaking Americans),<ref name=Weltfish1977/>{{rp|463}} * Turikaku (‘Center Village’) * Kitkehaxpakuxtu (‘Old Village’ or ‘Old-Earth-Lodge-Village’) * Tuhitspiat or Tuhricpiiʾat (S.B. dialect) (‘Village-Stretching-Out-in-the-Bottomlands’, ‘Village Across Bottomland’, ‘Village In The Bottoms’) * Tukitskita (‘Village-on-Branch-of-a-River’) * Tuhawukasa (‘Village-across-a-Ridge’ or ‘Village-Stretching-across-a-Hill’) [[File:Pawnee father and son 1912.jpg|thumb|Kitkahaki George and his son Taloowayahwho, also known as William Pollock, in the mid 1890s.]] * Arikararikutsu (‘Big-Antlered-Elk-Standing’) * Arikarariki (‘Small-Antlered-Elk-Standing’) * Tuhutsaku (‘Village-in-a-Ravine’) * Tuwarakaku (‘Village-in-Thick-Timber’) * Akapaxtsawa (‘Buffalo-Skull-Painted-on-Tipi’) * Tskisarikus (‘Fish-Hawk’) * Tstikskaatit (‘Black-Ear-of-Corn,’ i.e.‘[[Maize|Corn]]-black’) * Turawiu (was only part of a village) * Pahukstatu (S.B. dialect) or Páhukstaatuʾ (Sk. dialect) (‘Pumpkin-Vine Village’ or ‘Squash-Vine Village’, did not join the Skidi and remained politically independent, but in general were counted as Skidi) * Tskirirara (‘Wolf-in-Water’, although the Skidi-Federation got its name from them, they remained politically independent, but were counted within the Pawnee as Skidi) * [[Panismaha]] (also ''Panimaha'', by the 1770s this group of the Skidi Pawnee had broken off and moved toward Texas, where they allied with the Taovaya, the Tonkawa, Yojuane and other Texas tribes)
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