Kirarutah

Kirarutah lies near the Republican River country, where the Kitkahahki Pawnee maintained a village of earth lodges in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The village near Republic had dozens of lodges and a defensive ditch. Farther north, at another Kitkahahki village in Nebraska, Zebulon Pike met Pawnee leaders in 1806. The two sites preserve different episodes in the history of the Republican Pawnee.