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The Panismahas or Panimaha were a sub-group of the Access Genealogy article on the Skidis
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article on Nebraska inhabitants in 18th century
The Panismahas or Panimaha were a sub-group of the Pawnee Pawnee initially refers to a Native American people and its language:
* Pawnee people
* Pawnee language
Pawnee is also the name of several places in the United States:
* Pawnee, Illinois
* Pawnee, Kansas
* Pawnee, Missouri
* Pawnee City, Nebraska
* ...
. They mainly appear in the 18th century, and how they connect with later 19th century groups is somewhat unclear. They may have been somehow connected with the Skidi
The Skidi or Skiri, also known as the Wolf Pawnee or the French Loup Pawnee, are a band of Pawnee people. According to tradition in earlier times, the Skidi were associated with the Arikara before the Arikara moved northward. The Skidi language wa ...
sub-group of the Pawnee, but this is not certain.
In the 1700s, they lived west of the Missouri River in present-day Nebraska. A 1718 French map locates ''les Panimaha'' in the vicinity of the ''Riv. des Panis'' (
Platte River
The Platte River () is a major river in the State of Nebraska. It is about long; measured to its farthest source via its tributary, the North Platte River, it flows for over . The Platte River is a tributary of the Missouri River, which itself ...
) with other Pawnee villages (''les Panis''), perhaps on the Loup River
The Loup River (pronounced /lup/) is a tributary of the Platte River, approximately long, in central Nebraska in the United States. The river drains a sparsely populated rural agricultural area on the eastern edge of the Great Plains southeast o ...
, a historic territory of the Skidi. In the fall of 1724, in a village of the Kansa people
The Kaw Nation (or Kanza or Kansa) is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas. It comes from the central Midwestern United States. It has also been called the "People of the South wind",
, the Panismahas joined a peace council with Frenchmen, Otoes
The Otoe (Chiwere: Jiwรฉre) are a Native American people of the Midwestern United States. The Otoe language, Chiwere, is part of the Siouan family and closely related to that of the related Iowa, Missouria, and Ho-Chunk tribes.
Historically, ...
, Osages
The Osage Nation ( ) ( Osage: ๐๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฐอ ('), "People of the Middle Waters") is a Midwestern Native American tribe of the Great Plains. The tribe developed in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys around 700 BC alon ...
, Iowa
Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ...
, Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...
and Illini. In about 1752 they made peace with the Comanches
The Comanche or Nสmสnสส ( com, Nสmสnสส, "the people") are a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in La ...
(''les Padoucas''), Wichitas
The Wichita people or Kitikiti'sh are a confederation of Southern Plains Native American tribes. Historically they spoke the Wichita language and Kichai language, both Caddoan languages. They are indigenous to Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas.
...
and the main Pawnee groups.
One group of these people, who may have been specifically part of the Skidi
The Skidi or Skiri, also known as the Wolf Pawnee or the French Loup Pawnee, are a band of Pawnee people. According to tradition in earlier times, the Skidi were associated with the Arikara before the Arikara moved northward. The Skidi language wa ...
tribe, moved from what is now Nebraska to the Texas-Arkansas border regions where they lived with the Taovayas
The Taovaya tribe of the Wichita people were Native Americans originally from Kansas, who moved south into Oklahoma and Texas in the 18th century. They spoke the Taovaya dialect of the Wichita language, a Caddoan language. Taovaya people today ...
. It appears that this group was also the Pannis designated in a village along the Sulphur Creek in northeast Texas in a 19th-century Spanish map./ref>
See also
*Panis (slaves of First Nation descent)
Panis was a term used for slaves of the First Nations descent in Canada, a region of New France. First Nation slaves were generally called ''Panis'' (anglicized to Pawnee), with most slaves of First Nations descent having originated from Pawnee tri ...
Sources
*John, Elizabeth. ''Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds''. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.article on Nebraska inhabitants in 18th century