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gathering of their crop of corn in the fall, they separate into parties of from one to three or four families, & with their tipis depart for the woods which afford shelter from the inclemencies of winter & brings them nearer to the game on which they subsist during that season, Hunting & trapping for their own food & to preserve skins for traffic are their occupations until the spring, go to their unknown camps, the men hunting muskrat whence they return to their village to plant the corn, in which employment the women are the chief actors. This important business over, they crossed out - spring-hunt takes place return to the village to enjoy the ball play, gambling, &c or go in search for berries &c, the women generally remaining in the village- Those Indians who live upon the woodless plains of Nebraska & the Far-west lead a more nomadic & wandering life constantly following the trail of the buffalo, They