CONTENTS
Waheenee
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
106
Chapter X—Fields at Like-a-fishhook village
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