How did they live? What were their winter quarters?
The Indians? The winter quarters for the Mandan-Hidatsa is, there were smaller earth lodges. They were very well sheltered, I mean they had everything they could think of, they had your earth lodge that consisted of not only cottonwood trees but alot of dirt, almost like a subterranean type, although it wasn’t subterranean. They had family there. They had blankets in the form of buffalo hides. And I think, and I mentioned family briefly, let me get back to that. That’s the, that’s the best thing they had to keep them alive, and to keep them well, and to keep happy, and to keep them warm, was family. And alot of times when we start thinking about Lewis and Clark and who they met and as far as what they wrote about was the leaders they met and individuals they met, they pretty much failed to recognize families. They failed to recognize the young kids that were running around that lodge and making people laugh, and giving that warm feeling, and I think that’s what kept them. So it wasn’t
