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The Pawnee: Inside The Earth Lodges

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The Pawnee lived in earth lodges and tipis (when they were on the hunt after buffalo and other animals). Inside the earth lodges there is about three to ten feet to move around depending on the size of the family. Some of the children would copy their parents and build their own tipis or mini earth lodges. On the inside of the earth lodges they would make beds and place them on the outer walls with a fire pit in the middle. Outside of the lodges and tipis they put a storage pit where they would store their goods and other belongings such as jewelry in clay jars or jugs. They also had to create holes on the top of their homes so then they wouldn’t have to be trapped in a lodge that was full of smoke. How they would start a fire is they would

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