Kits'ixta

Kits’ixta is a recorded name for the Elkhorn River, which rises in the eastern Sandhills of Nebraska and flows southeast to the Platte. Its tributaries cross an open prairie landscape, while trees line many stretches of the valley. The river ran through the country of the Pawnee, including the Skidi communities whose villages stood along waterways north of the Platte. Farming and seasonal bison hunting joined the river valleys to the surrounding plains.