The Enchanted Mirror

This book is the first of three volumes that explore the history of the Pawnee people, a comprehensive narrative of community and selfhood. In Ancient Pawneeland we excavate ancient history from misty glimpses of antiquity. The eight essays in this volume begin with mythological events and dark world origins, and take us onward to the founding of Pawnee communal identities by the 14th century. Weaving together oral tradition and archaeology, this book integrates diverse realms of knowledge into unexpected vistas on ancient Pawnee history.