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Earth lodge dwelling of the Plains tribes of North America, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1908.

Bear's Belly of the Arikara people poses wearing a fur robe with the animal's head above his own in a 1908 black-and-white portrait by Edward S. Curtis.

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Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains Oceti Sakowin Blackfoot Cheyenne Mandan Crow Hidatsa Comanche Osage Pawnee Assiniboin