Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians, by Gilbert Livingstone Wilson, Ph.D

About this eBook

Author

Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone, 1868-1930

Title

Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation

Credits

Produced by MFR, K Nordquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

E011: History: America: America

Subject

Indians of North America -- Agriculture

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 60313

Release Date

September 17, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES — STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS — STUDIES IN ENGINEERING
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.HIDATSA ALPHABET — AGRICULTURE OF THE HIDATSA INDIANS AN INDIAN INTERPRETATION
6. 6.FOREWORD
7. 7.CHAPTER I TRADITION
8. 8.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
9. 9.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
10. 10.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
11. 11.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
12. 12.CHAPTER VI BEANS — Planting Beans — Putting in the Seeds — Hoeing and Cultivating — Threshing — Varieties — Selecting Seed Beans — Cooking and Uses
13. 13.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
14. 14.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
15. 15.CHAPTER IX TOOLS — Hoe — Rakes — Squash Knives
16. 16.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
17. 17.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
18. 18.CHAPTER XII SINCE WHITE MEN CAME — How We Got Potatoes and Other Vegetables — The New Cultivation — Iron Kettles
19. 19.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
20. 20.FOOTNOTES — STUDIES IN THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES — STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE — CURRENT PROBLEMS

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