There is a proliferation of different kinds…
1804 CE
Women take on more manufacturing of goods for trade, as well as hand farming, perhaps because of evolving technology.
Those women buried after 1800 will be seen to have had shorter, more strenuous lives—none will live past the age of thirty—but they also have larger roles in the tribe's economy.
Researchers will find through archeological excavations that the later women's skeletons had been buried with more silver artifacts as grave goods than those of the men, or of women before 1800. (After the research is completed, the tribe will bury these ancestral remains in 1991.)
When Lewis and Clark visit Ton-wa-tonga in 1804, most of the inhabitants are gone on a seasonal buffalo hunt.
The expedition meets with the Oto Indians, who are also Siouan speaking.
The explorers are led to the gravesite of Chief Blackbird before continuing on their expedition west.
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