Pawnee people

Because there was, in fact, a real historical figure named John Dunbar.

He was a real Christian missionary who lived in the American West and was heavily associated with the Pawnee tribe in the early 1800s.

He interacted with Native American cultures, documented his experiences, lived a complex life on the frontier.

But, and this is the massive but, the divergence between the historical record and the cinematic narrative is absolute.

THAT WAS AN UNDERTAKING CALLING FOR A HIGH DEGREE OF TACT AND COURAGE.

From a camp a few miles above the platte, where the party remained for several days, messengers were sent to the villages of the Pawnees and Otoes, fifty miles to the westward, bearing gifts with an invitation to a council.

Through wars and other disasters, the Otoes were then much reduced in numbers, as in almost every item of the Savage Code of Efficiency and Independence.

in their weakened state they had formed an alliance with the pawnees a primitive adaptation of the idea of a protectorate the pawnees had considerable strength and they were in character much above the indian average living in permanent villages where they sustained themselves by cultivating corn-fields and hunting the buffalo after carefully reconnoitering the lower platte valley and the surrounding country the expedition passed onward traveling slowly to allow the indians to overtake them on the twenty seventh they passed the present site of omaha and on the thirtieth encamped at a point twelve or fifteen miles to the north IT WAS THIS CAMP, PITCHED WHERE THE VILLAGE OF CALHOUN, NEBRASKA NOW STANDS, THAT RECEIVED THE NAME OF COUNCIL BLUFF, WHICH WAS LATER APPROPRIATED BY AN IOWA TOWN.

"'I see before me,' said he, "'my great father's two sons.

You see me and the rest of our chiefs and warriors.' WE ARE VERY POOR, WE HAVE NEITHER POWDER NOR BALL NOR KNIVES, AND OUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT THE VILLAGE HAVE NO CLOTHES.

I WISH THAT AS MY BROTHERS HAVE GIVEN ME A FLAG AND A MEDAL, THEY WOULD GIVE SOMETHING TO THOSE POOR PEOPLE, OR LET THEM STOP AND TRADE WITH THE FIRST BOAT WHICH COMES UP THE RIVER." I will bring chiefs of the Pawnees and Mahas together and make peace between them, but it is better that I should do it than my great father's sons, for they will listen to me more readily.

I will also take some chiefs to your country in the spring, but before that time I cannot leave home.

By the time the last team was at the nooning place, the head ones were ready to start on.

Solid rode ahead to explore and pick out the road, carrying his rifle on the saddle, as we were liable at any time to meet bands of treacherous, pillaging Pawnees, whose haunts were on the lower plat.

I formed the rear guard with the hindmost wagon, so that it would not be deserted and alone in case of accident.

Each team was always in sight of the next one ahead of it, though the train was stretched out some three miles long.

At any rate, he gives examples of different cultures reading the message in the sky clock.

So how is it that, as an example, the Pawnee Indians of America associated Mars with a warrior and Venus with a maiden.

This is found over and over, demonstrating that not only are the energies in line with the myth and description, but those who are reading the energies, I guess that's how I'll put it, are getting the same message.

If we come up to our time, Mars still has the connotation of a warrior.

And I imagine there's some point in the future where people will be able to decode, get back in line, and probably read information that's been lost to books and everything else for millennia, maybe.

The way I took it is that he looked at a lot of information coming from the people who are writing these things down, saw that they had their own equivalencies, so he just took what they were saying and then put it all together to make his supposition.

Right, but he also rolls it across different cultures, like I kind of just did with the Pawnee Indians and the idea of Mars and Venus.

showing that there is in fact an energy or a message or however you want to put it that is associated with that particular part of the sky clock and it's genius and also to be perfectly clear there are 48 original constellations supposedly there were next to none in the southern hemisphere and The IAU or whatever it's called, I think in 1929, adopted all of them, which is now 88.