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Also Known As	Numakiki

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Mandan: village

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

On-a-Slant Village

Plains bullboats

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Topics

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

Key People

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George A. Dorsey

American anthropologist

Tecumseh. Battle of the Thames, Ontario, Canada, and the death of Tecumseh. Col. Richard M. Johnson with the Kentucky volunteers on left battle with Tecumseh and his Native troops. Native American Shawnee chief. North American indian. (See Notes)

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