1540 - Coronado encounters the ancestral Pawnee and is met with “ferocious resistance.”
1720 - Villasur encounters the Pawnee and Otoe and is badly defeated. A record of this battle was painted on eight buffalo hides, on display at the New Mexico History Museum.
Resources:
Matt Reed (Pawnee) , A Pawnee Perspecive on the Villasur Expedition
Melea Hoffman (Otoe-Missouria / Pawnee) , An Otoe-Missouria Perspective on the Villasur Expedition
Villasur Expedition , Presentation by Dr. Chris Steinke, Bison Society Historian
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