CONTENTS

PAGES
Foreword[1-5]
Chapter I—Tradition[6-8]
Chapter II—Beginning a garden[9-15]
Turtle[9]
Clearing fields[9]
Dispute and its settlement[10]
Turtle breaking soil[11]
Turtle’s primitive tools[12]
Beginning a field in later times[13]
Trees in the garden[15]
Our west field[15]
Burning over the field[15]
Chapter III—Sunflowers[16-21]
Remark by Maxi´diwiac[16]
Planting sunflowers[16]
Varieties[16]
Harvesting the seed[17]
Threshing[18]
Harvesting the mapi´-na´ka[18]
Effect of frost[18]
Parching the seed[19]
Four-vegetables-mixed[19]
Sunflower-seed balls[21]
Chapter IV—Corn[22-67]
Planting[22]
A morning’s planting[23]
Soaking the seed[23]
Planting for a sick woman[24]
Size of our biggest field[24]
Na´xu and nu´cami[25]
Hoeing[26]
The watchers’ stage[26]
Explanation of sketch of watchers’ stage[28]
Sweet Grass’s sun shade[30]
The watchers[30]
Booths[31]
Eating customs[32]
Youths’ and maidens’ customs[33]
Watchers’ songs[33]
Clan cousins’ custom[34]
Story of Snake-head-ornament[35]
Green corn and its uses[36-41]
The ripening ears[36]
Second planting for green corn[37]
Cooking fresh green corn[37]
Roasting ears[37]
Mätu´a-la´kapa[38]
Corn bread[38]
Drying green corn for winter[39]
Mapë´di (corn smut)[42]
Mapë´di[42]
Harvest and uses[42]
The ripe corn harvest[42-47]
Husking[42]
Rejecting green ears[44]
Braiding corn[45]
The smaller ears[46]
Drying the braided ears[47]
Seed corn[47-49]
Selecting the seed[47]
Keeping two years’ seed[48]
Threshing corn[49-58]
The booth[49]
Order of the day’s work[52]
The cobs[53]
Winnowing[54]
Removing the booth[55]
Threshing braided corn[57]
Amount of harvest[57]
Sioux purchasing corn[58]
Varieties of corn[58-60]
Description of varieties[58]
How corn travels[59]
Uses of the varieties[60-67]
Atạ´ki tso´ki[60]
Mäpi´ nakapa´[60]
Mä´nakapa[61]
Atạ´ki[62]
Boiled corn ball[62]
Tsï´di tso´ki and tsï´di tapa´[62]
Mạdạpo´zi i’ti´a[63]
Other soft varieties[63]
Ma´ikadicakĕ[63]
Mä´pĭ mĕĕ´pĭi’´kiuta, or corn balls[63]
Parched soft corn[64]
Parching whole ripe ears[64]
Parching hard yellow corn with sand[64]
Mạdạpo´zi pạ´kici, or lye-made hominy[64]
General characteristics of the varieties[65]
Fodder yield[66]
Developing new varieties[66]
Sport ears[67]
Names and description[67]
Na’´ta-tawo´xi[67]
Wi´da-aka´ta[67]
I´ta-ca´ca[67]
Okĕi´jpita[67]
I´tica´kupadi[67]
Chapter V—Squashes[68-81]
Planting squashes[68]
Sprouting the seed[68]
Planting the sprouted seed[69]
Harvesting the squashes[69]
Slicing the squashes[70]
Squash spits[71]
Spitting the slices[72]
In case of rain[73]
Drying and storing[73]
Squash blossoms[75]
Cooking and uses of squash[76]
The first squashes[76]
Boiling fresh squash in a pot[76]
Squashes boiled with blossoms[77]
Other blossom messes[77]
Boiled blossoms[77]
Blossoms boiled with mạdạpo´zi i’ti´a[77]
Blossoms boiled with mäpi´ nakapa´[78]
Seed squashes[78-81]
Selecting for seed[78]
Gathering the seed squashes[78]
Cooking the ripe squashes[79]
Saving the seed[79]
Eating the seeds[80]
Roasting ripe squashes[80]
Storing the unused seed squashes[80]
Squashes, present seed[81]
Squash dolls[81]
Chapter VI—Beans[82-86]
Planting beans[82]
Putting in the seeds[82]
Hoeing and cultivating[83]
Threshing[83]
Varieties[84]
Selecting seed beans[85]
Cooking and uses[85]
Ama´ca di´hĕ, or beans-boiled[86]
Green beans boiled in the pod[86]
Green corn and beans[86]
Chapter VII—Storing for winter[87-97]
The cache pit[87]
Grass for lining[88]
Grass bundles[89]
The grass binding rope[89]
Drying the grass bundles[89]
The willow floor[89]
The grass lining[90]
Skin bottom covering[90]
Storing the cache pit[90]
The puncheon cover[93]
Cache pits in Small Ankle’s lodge[95]
First account[95]
A second account on another day[96]
Diagram of Small Ankle’s lodge[97]
Chapter VIII—The making of a drying stage[98-104]
Stages in Like-a-fishhook village[98]
Cutting the timbers[98]
Digging the post holes[99]
Raising the frame[100]
The floor[100]
Staying thongs[101]
Ladder[101]
Enlarging the stage[102]
Present stages[102]
Building, women’s work[102]
Measurements of stage[103]
Drying rods[104]
Other uses of the drying stage[104]
Chapter IX—Tools[105-106]
Hoe[105]
Rakes[105]
Squash knives[106]
Chapter X—Fields at Like-a-fishhook village[108-112]
East-side fields[108]
East-side fences[108]
Idikita´c’s garden[110]
Fields west of the village[110]
West-side fence[111]
Crops, our first wagon[112]
Chapter XI—Miscellanea[113-118]
Divisions between gardens[113]
Fallowing, ownership of gardens[113]
Frost in the gardens[115]
Maxi´diwiac’s philosophy of frost[115]
Men helping in the field[115]
Sucking the sweet juice[116]
Corn as fodder for horses[116]
Disposition of weeds[116]
The spring clean-up[116]
Manure[117]
Worms[117]
Wild animals[117]
About old tent covers[118]
Chapter XII—Since white men came[119-120]
How we got potatoes and other vegetables[119]
The new cultivation[120]
Iron kettles[120]
Chapter XIII—Tobacco[121-127]
Observations by Maxi´diwiac[121]
The tobacco garden[121]
Planting[122]
Arrow-head-earring’s tobacco garden[122]
Small Ankle’s cultivation[122]
Harvesting the blossoms[123]
Harvesting the plants[124]
Selling to the Sioux[125]
Size of tobacco garden[126]
Customs[126]
Accessories to the tobacco garden[126-127]
Fence[126]
The scrotum basket[127]
Old garden sites near Independence[129]