{"product_id":"riverbend-city-mary-j-adair-9781647692940","title":"Riverbend City: An Eighteenth-Century Pawnee Community","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevealing Pawnee history through archaeology and oral tradition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom approximately 1750 to 1803, Riverbend City was occupied by the Kitkahahki and other South Band Pawnees. Identified through oral tradition and genealogical research, Riverbend City refers to a significant Pawnee community living along a bend of the Dirty Water (Republican) River in present-day northcentral Kansas. As Spanish, French, British, and American interests expanded into the North American interior, this Pawnee community interacted and traded with European groups, setting in motion irreversible social transformations that affected all Indigenous peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together historic documentation, oral tradition, chronology, and analyses of material culture assemblages from Riverbend City. Based on data from fourteen excavated earthlodges, contributors present new insights into community composition, earthlodge construction, subsistence, economy, exchange systems, and the use of European trade items. Together, the archaeological record and oral traditions reveal lives shaped by change and continuity, offering a narrative distinct from twentieth-century ethnographic images of the Pawnee people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary J. Adair\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1647692946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647692940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Utah Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Mary J. Adair","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49097258729727,"sku":"9781647692940","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/riverbend-city-mary-j-adair-9781647692940","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}