Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation

Name: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation
Author: Gilbert Livingstone Wilson Waheenee

by Gilbert Livingstone Wilson Waheenee

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RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
STUDIES IN ENGINEERING
PREFACE
CONTENTS
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
The Ripening Ears
Second Planting for Green Corn
Cooking Fresh Green Corn
Roasting Ears
Mätu´a-la´kapa
Corn Bread
Drying Green Corn for Winter
Mapë´di (Corn Smut)
Mapë´di
Harvest and Uses
The Ripe Corn Harvest
Husking
Rejecting Green Ears
Braiding Corn
The Smaller Ears
Drying the Braided Ears
Seed Corn
Selecting the Seed
Keeping Two Years’ Seed
Threshing Corn
The Booth
Order of the Day’s Work
The Cobs
Winnowing
Removing the Booth
Threshing Braided Corn
Amount of Harvest
Sioux Purchasing Corn
Varieties of Corn
Description of Varieties
How Corn Travels
Uses of the Varieties
Atạ´ki Tso´ki
Atạ´ki
Tsï´di Tso´ki and Tsï´di Tapä´
Other Soft Varieties
Ma´ikadicakĕ
General Characteristics of the Varieties
Fodder Yield
Developing New Varieties
Sport Ears
Names and Description
CHAPTER V SQUASHES
Planting Squashes
Sprouting the Seed
Planting the Sprouted Seed
Harvesting the Squashes
Slicing the Squashes
Squash Spits
Spitting the Slices
In Case of Rain
Drying and Storing
Squash Blossoms
Cooking and Uses of Squash
The First Squashes
Other Blossom Messes
Seed Squashes
Selecting for Seed
Gathering the Seed Squashes
Cooking the Ripe Squashes
Saving the Seed
Eating the Seeds
Roasting Ripe Squashes
Storing the Unused Seed Squashes
Squashes, Present Seed
Squash Dolls
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
First Account
A Second Account on Another Day
Diagram of 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
Fence
The Scrotum Basket
FOOTNOTES
STUDIES IN THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
CURRENT PROBLEMS
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