Corn occupied an important place in the lives of many Native communities that lived along the Upper Missouri River. In this landmark book, George F. Will and George E. Hyde introduce readers to some fifty varieties of native corn discovered in the Missouri Valley. Equally important, they provide an indispensable overview of Indian agricultural techniques there, including methods of harvesting and storing the crop, the preparation of corn for food, and the role of the crop in intertribal and Indian-white trade. Corn was not only grown, traded, and eaten, it also had spiritual significance. A final contribution of this book is a discussion of the presence and value of corn in American Indian myth, religion, and ritual.
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George F. Will (1884-1955) is the author of Archaeology of the Missouri Valley (1924) and The Mandans: A Study of Their Culture, Archaeology and Language (1906). George E. Hyde (1882-1968) is the author of several books, including Red Cloud's Folk: A History of the Oglala Sioux Indians (1937), Pawnee Indians (1934), Indians of the High Plains: From the Prehistoric Period to the Coming of Europeans (1959), and Indians of the Woodlands: From Prehistoric Times to 1725 (1962). Douglas Parks is a professor of anthropology and associate director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University. His publications include Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians (Nebraska, 1996) and an edition of James R. Murie's Ceremonies of the Pawnee (Nebraska, 1989).
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This review is from: Corn among the Indians of the Upper Missouri (Paperback)
If you are a gardener, are interested in Native American culture, and especially if you are both, you may value this as highly as I do. Through interviews with surviving women who remembered the details of their tribes' agricultural methods, and the way of life/religion that went with them, the authors have made an important contribution in an area that was undervalued at the time (the early 1900's). But thank goodness they had the foresight to put this information to paper. The book describes tools, varieties, planting methods, and agricultural customs of the Upper Missouri tribes. Thanks to the authors' preservation work, and the work of others, some of the varieties mentioned can still be found. If you are interested, google up the Seed Saver's Exchange in Iowa, and add a new dimension to your gardening.
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Mother Corn, Scattered Corn, Missouri River, Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee, Goose Women, Goose Society, Bureau of American Ethnology, Black Hills, Evening Star, Buffalo Bird Woman, Corn Priest, Missouri Valley, Bright Star, Long's Expedition, Fort Berthold, Mother Earth, White Flour, Red River, New Mexico, Good Fur Robe, First Mother, United States, North Dakota, Morning Star, Nebraska Historical Society Browse Sample Pages:
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