What did the Mandan Indians eat?

Answer 1

The Mandan Indians hunted buffalo and other game. They used wolf, buffalo and deer hide for clothes. Their diet consisted of buffalo meat, and deer meat. They also farmed the land, growing corn and beans for food. They also grew tobbacco.

Semi-nomadic plains tribes who spent most of the year following the buffalo herds came to the Mandan and Hidatsa villages for corn, beans and squash to supplement their diet. They traded furs, most notably buffalo hides, for the vegetables.

Agriculture was the economic foundation of the Knife River people, who harvested much of their food from rich floodplain gardens. The land was controlled by women-the size of a family's plot was determined by the number of women who could work it-and passed through the female line. They raised squash, pumpkin, beans, sunflowers, and, most importantly, tough, quick-maturing varieties of corn that thrived in the meager rainfall and short growing season. Summer's first corn was celebrated in the Green Corn ceremony. Berries, roots, and fish supplemented their diet. Upland hunting provided buffalo meat, hides, bones, and sinew.

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What did the Mandan Indians eat?

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The Mandan Indians hunted buffalo and other game. They used wolf, buffalo and deer hide for clothes. Their diet consisted of buffalo meat, and deer meat. They also farmed the land, growing corn and beans for food. They also grew tobbacco.

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The Mandan tribe depended on the soil for a large part of their daily diet. They grew a variety of crops to include beans, squash, sunflowers, and tobacco, with corn being the main vegetable. Corn was ground into corn meal using a mortar and pestle. It was then boiled into a pudding or mixed with other foods. Beans and corn were often boiled together to make succotash. Vegetables were eaten fresh or dried for future consumption. Each family farmed a small parcel of land, moving to a new area when the soil was no longer productive. The Mandan tribe hunted buffalo, elk, deer, bear, beaver, turtle and game birds.

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Answer 4

They eat all the meat from the carcass , the hides were used as bedding and footwear (moccasins) Their tepee's were made from tanned deer skins sewed together . All the manual work was carried out by the womenfolk men were warriors and hunters . Entertainment was mainly dances either to reinact a battle or a hunting success . Children were bought up as a model of their parents , boys as warriors girls as labourers in the home, There was some schooling for boys mostly religious teachings history of the tribe and its hero's and to teach hunting skills .

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