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  ENVIRONMENT; 
  RESULTANT 
  INFLUENCES 
  99 
  

  

  When 
  the 
  people 
  left 
  the 
  village 
  for 
  the 
  summer 
  buffalo 
  hunt, 
  all 
  

   cumbersome 
  household 
  articles 
  — 
  as 
  the 
  mortars 
  and 
  pestles, 
  extra 
  

   hides, 
  etc. 
  — 
  were 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  caches 
  and 
  the 
  openings 
  carefully 
  

   concealed. 
  The 
  cases 
  containing 
  gala 
  clothing 
  and 
  regalia 
  were 
  taken 
  

   along, 
  as 
  these 
  garments 
  were 
  needed 
  at 
  the 
  great 
  tribal 
  ceremonies 
  

   which 
  took 
  place 
  during 
  that 
  period. 
  

  

  In 
  a 
  village 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  entire 
  tribe 
  lived 
  the 
  lodges 
  and 
  tents 
  were 
  

   not 
  arranged 
  about 
  a 
  central 
  open 
  space 
  nor 
  were 
  they 
  set 
  so 
  the 
  

   people 
  could 
  live 
  in 
  the 
  order 
  of 
  their 
  gentes, 
  an 
  order 
  observed 
  when 
  

   they 
  were 
  on 
  the 
  hunt 
  and 
  during 
  their 
  tribal 
  ceremonies. 
  Yet 
  each 
  

   family 
  knew 
  to 
  what 
  gens 
  it 
  belonged, 
  observed 
  its 
  rites, 
  and 
  obej 
  ed 
  

   strictly 
  the 
  rule 
  of 
  exogamy. 
  To 
  the 
  outward 
  appearance 
  a 
  village 
  

   presented 
  a 
  motley 
  group 
  of 
  tribesmen. 
  The 
  dwellings 
  and 
  their 
  

   adjacent 
  corrals 
  were 
  huddled 
  together; 
  the 
  passageways 
  between 
  the 
  

   lodges 
  were 
  narrow 
  and 
  tortuous. 
  There 
  was 
  little 
  of 
  the 
  picturesque. 
  

   The 
  grass 
  and 
  weeds 
  that 
  grew 
  over 
  the 
  earth 
  lodges 
  while 
  the 
  people 
  

   were 
  off 
  on 
  their 
  summer 
  buffalo 
  hunt 
  were 
  all 
  cut 
  away 
  when 
  the 
  

   tribe 
  returned. 
  So, 
  except 
  for 
  the 
  decorations 
  on 
  the 
  skin 
  tents, 
  

   there 
  was 
  nothing 
  to 
  relieve 
  the 
  dun-colored 
  aspect. 
  (PI. 
  23.) 
  

  

  The 
  village 
  was 
  never 
  wholly 
  deserted, 
  even 
  when 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  tribe 
  

   left 
  for 
  the 
  annual 
  buffalo 
  hunt; 
  for 
  the 
  sick, 
  the 
  infirm, 
  and 
  the 
  

   very 
  poor 
  were 
  forced 
  to 
  remain 
  behind. 
  This 
  class 
  of 
  stay-at-homes 
  

   were 
  called 
  hc'begthi 
  n 
  , 
  "those 
  who 
  sit 
  half-way." 
  Usually 
  a 
  sprinkling 
  

   of 
  aide-bodied 
  men 
  remained 
  with 
  their 
  old 
  or 
  sick 
  relatives, 
  and 
  

   these 
  served 
  as 
  a 
  guard, 
  to 
  defend 
  the 
  village 
  in 
  case 
  of 
  an 
  attack. 
  

   Occasionally 
  a 
  young 
  man 
  or 
  two 
  would 
  remain 
  in 
  the 
  village 
  in 
  order 
  

   to 
  be 
  near 
  a 
  sweetheart 
  who 
  had 
  to 
  stay 
  at 
  home 
  and 
  help 
  care 
  for 
  

   the 
  sick 
  in 
  her 
  family. 
  

  

  HISTORIC 
  VILLAGES 
  AND 
  PLACES 
  

  

  To 
  n 
  'wo 
  n 
  pezM, 
  Bad 
  Village. 
  This 
  name, 
  bestow 
  T 
  ed 
  on 
  an 
  old 
  village 
  

   built 
  by 
  the 
  Omaha 
  in 
  their 
  migration 
  down 
  the 
  Missouri 
  river, 
  

   owes 
  its 
  origin 
  to 
  a 
  tragedy 
  which 
  for 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  years 
  caused 
  a 
  

   division 
  in 
  the 
  tribe. 
  (See 
  p. 
  85.) 
  This 
  village 
  was 
  located 
  on 
  East 
  

   Bow 
  creek, 
  in 
  the 
  northeast 
  part 
  of 
  township 
  32, 
  range 
  2 
  east 
  of 
  

   the 
  sixth 
  principal 
  meridian, 
  Cedar 
  county, 
  Nebraska. 
  

  

  To 
  n 
  'wo 
  n 
  to 
  n 
  gatlw 
  n 
  , 
  Large 
  Village. 
  This 
  town 
  was 
  on 
  Omaha 
  creek 
  

   in 
  Dakota 
  county, 
  Nebraska, 
  about 
  half 
  a, 
  mile 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  

   town 
  of 
  Homer; 
  it 
  was 
  built 
  in 
  the 
  eighteenth 
  century, 
  and 
  the 
  

   people 
  were 
  found 
  here 
  by 
  Lewis 
  and 
  Clark 
  in 
  1805. 
  

  

  Tenu'gano 
  n 
  pewaf7ie 
  slll■o 
  n 
  t}laiil^() 
  7, 
  , 
  "The 
  place 
  where 
  the 
  camp 
  of 
  

   Tenu'gano 
  n 
  pewathe 
  (father 
  of 
  Kaxe'no"ba) 
  was 
  attacked" 
  in 
  1S40 
  

   by 
  an 
  unknown 
  tribe 
  and 
  a 
  number 
  were 
  killed 
  on 
  both 
  sides. 
  The 
  

   fight 
  took 
  place 
  on 
  Cedar 
  creek, 
  Albion 
  county, 
  Nebraska, 
  in 
  town- 
  

   ship 
  19, 
  range 
  S 
  west 
  of 
  the 
  sixth 
  principal 
  meridian. 
  

  

  