Table 2 Description of biometric data used.

From: Transmission of biology and culture among post-contact Native Americans on the western Great Plains

Tribe

Sample size (N)

Average year of birth

Arapaho

62

1854‒1869

Assiniboine

26

1851‒1866

Blackfoot (Blood/Piegan)

60

1856‒1871

Cheyenne

32

1858‒1873

Comanche

82

1857‒1872

Crow

299

1851‒1866

Teton Dakota

622

1850‒1865

Kiowa

101

1856‒1871

Sarcee

12

1860‒1875

  1. Tribal names in parentheses indicate the names used in the Boas database, where different from the nomenclature used in the present study.
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