Nebraskaland

December 2021 • Nebraskaland 37 Pawnee Loup Fork Village, near Genoa, 1871. Though this photo was taken a century later and near a diff erent river, it shows what a Pawnee earth lodge village looked like. Pawnee settlements were much larger prior to epidemics that began in the 1790s. A large village might hold more than a hundred lodges and several thousand people. Traders would have noticed how such large, densely populated communities were governed. History Nebraska RG2065-1-1 River Got Its Name

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