Kit-Ka-Lahka Village (1871)
William Henry Jackson (1843–1942)
Derived from an original image by William Henry Jackson. View the original at the Nebraska State Historical Society, www.e-nebraskahistory.org/index.php?title=File:RG2065-PH000001-000004_SFN100814_1w.jpg.
Above are the remains of a Skiri (Panimaha or Loup) Pawnee village at the forks of Beaver Creek and the Loup River near present Genoa, Nebraska. Constructed and owned by women, the circular domes ranged from 30 to 60 feet in diameter. On summer hunts, the Pawnee typically constructed “side dwellings”—small, half-open domes of bent saplings covered with hides. On winter hunts, they stayed in conical hide teepees.[1]Douglas R. Parks, Handbook of North American Indians: Plains Vol. 13, ed. Raymond J. DeMallie (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2001), 13:523–25.
News of the Expedition
4th October, Saturday—Two French traders arrived at the village in order to procure horses to transport their goods from the Missouri to the village. They gave us information that captains Lewis and Clark, with all their people, had descended the river to St. Louis: this diffused general joy through our party.
—Zebulon Pike[2]Donald Jackson, The Journals of Zebulon Montgomery Pike (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966), 1:330.
Notes
| ↑1 | Douglas R. Parks, Handbook of North American Indians: Plains Vol. 13, ed. Raymond J. DeMallie (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2001), 13:523–25. |
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| ↑2 | Donald Jackson, The Journals of Zebulon Montgomery Pike (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966), 1:330. |
| ↑3 | Ibid, 1:326–329. |
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