Nutanke

Nutanke is a recorded name for the Loup River, whose branches drain the grasslands and sand hills of Nebraska. The river flows eastward to the Platte through country long associated with the Skidi Pawnee. Their villages stood near the Loup and its tributaries, where families raised crops and left seasonally to hunt bison on the plains. Waterways and the broad valleys around them connected the settled villages with the wider hunting country.