Kickatus

Kíckatus is the Pawnee name for the Platte River, a broad, shallow watercourse flowing eastward across Nebraska to the Missouri. Its channels spread over a sandy bed between the grasslands of the central Plains. The Platte and its tributaries lay at the heart of Pawnee country, where communities cultivated maize near their villages and traveled onto the plains for bison hunts. In Skidi tradition, the people of an ancestral settlement moved from the Platte to Beaver Creek.