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What did great plains people eat?

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Buffalo is the main source of food
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Buffalo was by and far, the main source of food. Buffalo meat was dried or cooked and made into soups and Pemmican. Women collected berries that were eaten dried and fresh. Deer, moose and elk, along with wolves, coyotes, lynx, rabbits, gophers, and prairie chickens were hunted for food.
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