Skiri

The Skiri, or Skidi, were the northernmost Pawnee band, living along the Platte and Loup rivers in present-day Nebraska. Their villages were distinct from the southern Pawnee bands, and their speech was more closely related to neither southern dialect than those dialects were to each other.

In 1724 Skiri representatives joined a peace council with Frenchmen and several neighboring peoples. Around 1752 they made peace with the Comanche, Wichita and the main Pawnee groups; by the 1770s some had moved toward Texas and allied with the Taovaya and other peoples.