Pawnee Marker, located on Agency Road in front of the old Superintendents Home. 

Front of the Marker says:

THE PAWNEES, by Gordon F. Adams

"In late November 1875, the last of three parties of this warrior tribe crossed the Arkansas River and slowly approached Pawnee Agency on the banks of the Black Bear Creek, ending their tragic trek from an ancient homeland in Nebraska to face an uncertain future that has become a cherished past. During the Indian Wars of the 1870's, two battalions of Pawnee Scouts defended Union Pacific Railroad workmen as they laid an arm of iron across the Western Plains. But during the Indian Removal days an ungrateful American Government uprooted the Pawnees and marched them South to Indian Territory along with thousands of their brothers. In 1905 the remnants of our small tribe living here today - which once numbered over 40,000 - was reduced by cholera and malnutrition to 646 innocent souls. They were victims of administrative callousness, official neglect and public indifference. Out tribal mothers have regenerated their decimated people over the slow years until today (1986) they number 2,442 and are now growing in social and economical strength after a century of decline."