By Bob Greenwall Dark Island Trail Long before any of our European ancestors arrived in Polk county, there were people along the Platte, the river they called the Pani-maha (flat water). Pani is the same as Pawnee in pronunciation. It was that tribe which had a village near Clarks called by historians the Grand Pawnee village. O-maha, as I recall, means “running water”...the Missouri, from ...
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