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Rick Strong wrote:
> Actually, the tribes may have had some agriculture; I do not know the context
> of the discussion you are citing but it should not be presumed that all Native
> Americans of the Lewis and Clark era were hunters and gatherers irrespective of
> their prior contacts with the European encroachment. By the time of the Lewis
> and Clark expedition, huge portions of the Native American population had
> already been substantially decimated by disease such as small pox. Which tribes
> were they describing? Rick
The tribes of the upper Missouri grew the Three Sisters: corn, beans, and squash,
long before the time of Lewis and Clark. Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara. The book
"Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden" is a fascinating description of their farming. The
Pueblo Indians have been growing corn in the Southwest for at least 900 years.
Lynnet
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