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HIDATSA ALPHABET

AGRICULTURE OF THE HIDATSA INDIANS AN INDIAN INTERPRETATION

FOREWORD

CHAPTER I TRADITION

CHAPTER II BEGINNING A GARDEN

Turtle

Clearing Fields

Dispute and Its Settlement

Turtle Breaking Soil

Turtle’s Primitive Tools

Beginning a Field in Later Times

Trees in the Garden

Our West Field

Burning Over the Field

CHAPTER III SUNFLOWERS

Remark by Maxi´diwiac

Planting Sunflowers

Varieties

Harvesting the Seed

Threshing

Harvesting the Mapi´-na´ka

Effect of Frost

Parching the Seed

Four-vegetables-mixed

Sunflower-seed Balls

CHAPTER IV CORN

Planting

A Morning’s Planting

Soaking the Seed

Planting for a Sick Woman

Size of Our Biggest Field

Na´xu and Nu´cami

Hoeing

The Watchers’ Stage

Explanation of Sketch of Watchers’ Stage

Sweet Grass’s Sun Shade

The Watchers

Booths

Eating Customs

Youths’ and Maidens’ Customs

Watchers’ Songs

Clan Cousins’ Custom

Story of Snake-head-ornament

Green Corn and Its Uses

Mapë´di (Corn Smut)

The Ripe Corn Harvest

Seed Corn

Threshing Corn

Varieties of Corn

Uses of the Varieties

Sport Ears

CHAPTER V SQUASHES

Planting Squashes

Cooking and Uses of Squash

Seed Squashes

CHAPTER VI BEANS

Planting Beans

Putting in the Seeds

Hoeing and Cultivating

Threshing

Varieties

Selecting Seed Beans

Cooking and Uses

CHAPTER VII STORING FOR WINTER

The Cache Pit

Grass for Lining

Grass Bundles

The Grass Binding Rope

Drying the Grass Bundles

The Willow Floor

The Grass Lining

Skin Bottom Covering

Storing the Cache Pit

The Puncheon Cover

Cache Pits in Small Ankle’s Lodge

CHAPTER VIII THE MAKING OF A DRYING STAGE

Stages in Like-a-fishhook Village

Cutting the Timbers

Digging the Post Holes

Raising the Frame

The Floor

Staying Thongs

Ladder

Enlarging the Stage

Present Stages

Building, Women’s Work

Measurements of Stage

Drying Rods

Other Uses of the Drying Stage

CHAPTER IX TOOLS

Hoe

Rakes

Squash Knives

CHAPTER X FIELDS AT LIKE-A-FISHHOOK VILLAGE

East-Side Fields

East Side Fences

Idikita´c’s Garden

Fields West of the Village

West-Side Fence

Crops, Our First Wagon

CHAPTER XI MISCELLANEA

Divisions Between Gardens

Fallowing, Ownership of Gardens

Frost in the Gardens

Maxi´diwiac’s Philosophy of Frost

Men Helping in the Field

Sucking the Sweet Juice

Corn as Fodder for Horses

Disposition of Weeds

The Spring Clean-up

Manure

Worms

Wild Animals

About Old Tent Covers

CHAPTER XII SINCE WHITE MEN CAME

How We Got Potatoes and Other Vegetables

The New Cultivation

Iron Kettles

CHAPTER XIII TOBACCO

Observations by Maxi´diwiac

The Tobacco Garden

Planting

Arrow-head-earring’s Tobacco Garden

Small Ankle’s Cultivation

Harvesting the Blossoms

Harvesting the Plants

Selling to the Sioux

Size of Tobacco Garden

Customs

Accessories to the Tobacco Garden

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