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1700 Ioway Farm
The farming techniques practiced by the Ioway Indians in 1700 pre-dated history and varied somewhat from European methods. Ioway farmers raised corn, beans and squash. Women did the farming in the Ioway culture while men were responsible for hunting and making tools. Ioway families were subsistence farmers, raising just enough for their family to survive throughout the year.
Ioway Indians had separate summer and winter lodges. Bark houses called tcakiduthans kept the Ioway cool during hot summer months, while winter mat-houses called ita-hos, made from layers of sewn cattail leaves, protected the Ioway from harsh winters. While traveling on hunting expeditions, the Ioway lived in a chibothraje, or tipi made from buffalo hides. In their villages, the Ioway also built sweat lodges, food-drying racks, cooking areas, work areas, hide-scraping racks, pottery pits, and gardens.
Interpreters discuss hunting, tool making, hide processing, fur trading, food issues, and gardening, and the roles Ioway men and women played in each. Interpreters use both recreated bone and stone tools and reproduced trade items to perform daily tasks.
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