Compare tipis to the earth lodges once built by agricultural Plains tribes. Plains tribes can be loosely divided into those who had settled in villages and farmed, and the nomadic tribes who roamed across the vast plains hunting for game. Most of the farming tribes also went out of their villages every year to hunt buffalo. Both groups used tipis when they were on the hunt, but the nomadic tribes concentrated more on training horses than building earth lodges.

In Nebraska, the Pawnee, the Omaha and the Oto-Missouri were tribes who farmed and built lodges out of the soil around them.

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