Pawnee indian tribe diet?

Question: Pawnee indian tribe diet!?

im doing a project for the pawnee indians, could you please use as much detail to describe what they ate!. thanks XPWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Despite being classed as "village" Indians since they lived in semi-permanent earthlodge villages on the Loup, Platte and Republican Rivers, the Panis ate a huge amount of buffalo meat!. This must be considered their main diet, supplemented by wild plants and other game animals!.

Indian potatoes (glycine apios) and black-eyed peas (falcata comosa) were the favourite plant foods!. The peas were not grown by the Panis, but taken from underground caches created by rodents, who did the collecting from wild plants - all the Panis had to do was dig down to raid the cache!. Artichokes were eaten fresh, but the potatoes could be boiled, smoked, or dried for preservation in skin bags!.

Indian corn (maize), flour corn, beans, pumpkins, dried buffalo meat and trade goods such as white flour were regularly eaten!.

Elk and deer meat counted as "real food" alongside the mainstay buffalo - other animals were considered much less good to eat, even distasteful!. Buffalo intestines were used to make a kind of sausage - often not being properly cleaned out first, which gave many white visitors cause to comment on this "disgusting diet"!.

Early photographs of Pani villages often show buffalo intestines, stuffed with meat, draped like ropes on drying racks in the sun!.Www@QuestionHome@Com