#351, Indian State Names
Our county is bordered on the north by the Platte River, familiar ground to the Pawnee tribe. Their name for it was pani maha; flat water or river. Maha is most familiar to us in the name Omaha. To make pani phonetically friendly, it became “paw nee.” Sound familiar?
Thanks to Mariya Akter via Nancy Schroeder for researching how many of our United States have names of Indian…
