Ickari Kitsu

Ickari Kitsu recalls Indigenous names recorded for Nebraska's Loup River. Its branches drain the Sandhills and flow eastward to join the Platte, crossing a country of grass-covered dunes and river valleys. The river was known to the Pawnee, whose villages and farming lands lay along waterways of the central plains. Its French name, Loup, means “wolf,” a name also associated with the Skidi Pawnee.