Skidin.adj.
/ˈskiːdi/, U.S. /ˈskiˌdi/α. 1800s– Skeeree, 1900s– Skiri.
β. 1800s– Skeedee, 1800s– Skidi.
A. n.
More fully Skidi Pawnee. A member of a North American Indian people constituting a division of the Pawnee, and originally inhabiting the Loup River valley, Nebraska. Also: the Pawnee dialect spoken by this people. Cf. Pawnee Loup n., Pawnee Maha n.
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Pawnee1698
Pawnee Maha1698
Pawnee1770
Republican Pawnee1797
Pawnee Pict1805
Pawnee Loup1806
Pawnee Republican1806
Skidi1823
Pawnee Republic1836
1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts II. 165 The camp had been occupied by a war party of Skeeree or Pawnee Loup Indians.
1869 Friends' Intelligencer 2 Oct. 484/2 The Skeedees live in a village by themselves.
1877 W. H. Jackson Descriptive Catal. Photographs 64 The Pawnees..retain the subdivision into bands, as follows: The Skeedee (Pawnee Mahas, or Loups), Kit-ka-hoet, or Republican Pawnees, [etc.].
1905 Folk-lore 16 116 The present volume opens with an account of the Skidi Pawnee.
1907 N. Curtis Indian's Bk. 93 The Skidi dialect differs from that of the three other bands in that what is pronounced as an l in the others is pronounced as an r in Skidi.
1961 W. Brandon Indians 252/2 Deep in the short-grass plains of modern North Dakota and environs, were..the Caddoan Arikara, an emigrant group from the Skidi Pawnee, and the Siouan Hidatsa and Mandan.
1963 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 107 53/2 Hayden's source for the Pawnee list was a missionary to the Skiri.
1983 Isis 74 607/1 The Skidi were removed to Oklahoma in the 1870s, where they assimilated many Anglo-American ways.
1997 M. R. Blaine Some Things are not Forgotten 76 As a Skidi he did not always have information about the three south bands' ceremonies.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating the Skidi or their dialect.
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Padouca1760
Quapaw1770
black-footed1772
Sarcee1790
Ozark1816
Comanche1819
Tonkawa1870
earth lodge1885
Skidi1891
1891 Amer. Anthropologist 4 198 The Ree and Skidi word for horn is Arī'kē.
1916 J. W. Williamson in S. C. Bassett Buffalo County Nebraska & its People I. lviii. 386 Chief Terra Recokens..was surrounded by several leading men of the Skeedee band.
1933 Amer. Anthropologist 35 113 The account is presented by Murie as of the Skiri Bear Dance.
1996 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XVII. 319 The Pawnee language includes the South Band Pawnee and Skiri dialects.
2001 R. G. Robertson Rotting Face ix. 215 Skidi shamans purified and painted the body of a captive Lakota virgin.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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