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