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Each tribe
maintained separate bands, clan systems, and separate ceremonial
bundles. After the devastation of the small pox epidemics
of 1792, 1836, and 1837, homogenous societies evolved for economic
and social survival. The three tribes lived in earth lodges,
were farmers, hunted wild game and relied heavily on the buffalo
for food, shelter, clothing, and animal pans for making various
utensils and garden tools. They maintained a vast trading
system and were considered middlemen by neighboring tribes with
different types of trade products.
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