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hark, like the Ojibway and other Woodland tribes. 

 The Hidatsa type of lodge is, unlike the tipi, definitely 

 localized along the Missouri and the Platte, giving one 

 the impression that it must have originated within this 

 territory. The Omaha claim to have originally used 



Fig. 9. Hidatsa Village in 1868. 

 (Morrow photo reproduced by F. N. Wilson.) 



tipis and to have learned the use of earth lodges from 

 the Ankara; likewise the Skidi-Pawnee claim the tipi 

 as formerly their only dwelling. However, all these 

 tribes used tipis when on summer and winter trips after 

 buffalo (p. 20). 



