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beans and wild potatoes; but ground beans are hard to dig, and the people, anyway, liked the new kind of beans better. whether the ground beans and wild potatoes of the missouri bottoms are descended from the seed planted by the villagers at devils lake, i do not know. my tribe, as our old men tell
of coarse grass, weeds, small brush and the like, she took in her hand and shook, or struck them against the ground, to knock off the loose earth clinging to them; she then cast them into a little pile to dry. in this way she accumulated little piles, scattered rather irregularly over the dug-up ground...
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