“I Was Brought to Life to Save My People from Starvation and from Their Enemies”: Pahukatawa and the Pawnee Trauma of Genocide

Logt, Martinus Van de

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“…In short, by the late 1830s, dozens of enemies surrounded the Pawnee. Author Washington Irving, who visited the Plains in 1832, observed that the Pawnee were “like the sons of Ishmael, their hand is against everyone and everyone's hand is against them” [van de Logt 2016:33].…”

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Regional Conflict, Ceramic Senescence, and Pawnee Raw Material Choice in the Late Contact Era

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Here, we consider the last decades of ceramic manufacture among the Pawnee in the Central Great Plains, using petrographic analysis to explore raw material availability and use at the Kitkahahki Town site (14RP1). Historical documents reveal tremendous regional pressures and conflicts in the Kitkahahki Town area during its occupation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries—processes that could have altered or restricted the movement of women outside village boundaries. Contact-era Pawnee pottery from Kitkahahki Town exhibits atypical paste textures, atypical inclusions, or both. At least one potter used atypical materials available immediately adjacent to the village, which suggests that ceramic raw material collection was at least occasionally adjusted to reduce risk. Petrographic analysis contributes to our understanding of Indigenous communities in colonial settings, particularly to questions of technological change and landscape use when both were intensely negotiated and rapidly changing.

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“…Attacks could disrupt farming activities enough to cause food shortages and uncertainty (Jensen 2010; cf. van der Logt 2016:35), a problem faced by other Indigenous people in North America (Melton 2018). They also may have constrained other activities by women outside the village, such as ceramic raw material collection.…”

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Regional Conflict, Ceramic Senescence, and Pawnee Raw Material Choice in the Late Contact Era

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Tree-Ring-Radiocarbon Dating at a Late Contact Period Kitkahahki Pawnee Site on the Central Great Plains, Usa

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This study obtained calendar dates by radiocarbon accelerator mass spectrometry (14C AMS) dating sequential tree-rings of wooden support posts from the buried remains of traditional Kitkahahki Pawnee earthlodges preserved at an archaeological site on the Central Great Plains, USA. The tree-ring segments from the site were dendrochronologically analyzed prior to this study, but the cross-matched site chronology could not be definitively cross-dated and was thus “floating” in time. Our study represents the first floating tree-ring chronology from the Great Plains to be anchored in time by means of independent radiocarbon analysis. Three specimens were analyzed and dated to 1724–1774 CE (82.0% probability), 1774–1794 CE (95.4% probability), and 1800–1820 CE (95.4% probability). These dates correspond to the hypothetical timing of Kitkahahki ethnogensis, the main phase of village growth in the area, and a later reoccupation during a turbulent period in regional history. The results of this study conform to a scenario in which chaotic social conditions correspond to an increase in residential mobility between the core of Pawnee territory and a southern frontier in the Republican River valley.

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“I Was Brought to Life to Save My People from Starvation and from Their Enemies”: Pahukatawa and the Pawnee Trauma of Genocide

Cited by 2 publications

References 13 publications

Regional Conflict, Ceramic Senescence, and Pawnee Raw Material Choice in the Late Contact Era

Regional Conflict, Ceramic Senescence, and Pawnee Raw Material Choice in the Late Contact Era

Tree-Ring-Radiocarbon Dating at a Late Contact Period Kitkahahki Pawnee Site on the Central Great Plains, Usa

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