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The Middle
Missouri people dug cache pits, or holes, inside their houses. They
stored food in them for the winter. A cache pit was like a cellar. Women
dug the pits six to eight feet deep. They shaped each one like a jug.
Then the women lined the cache pits with dried prairie grass and buffalo
hide. The![]()
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Figure redrawn by Lynet Dagel from Gilbert L. Wilson, Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians, copyright 1983 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. Used with Permission. |