© 1994 - Tara Prindle
unless otherwise cited.
Scenes from the Eastern Woodlands
A Virtual Tour ~ Circa 1550
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Tending to our garden ... you will see how our corn and beans and squash all grow together. Our gardens are hoed into evenly spaced little heaped up mounds of earth, and sometimes we mix fish into the mounds to fertilize the earth. One woman holds a hoe made from a deer scapula (shoulder blade) fastened to a long wooden handle. A few corn kernels from last year are planted in the center of each mound, and then bean and squash seeds are planted around the corn kernels. As the corn stalk grows, the beans wind their way up around the cornstalk which supports them, and the low growing squash and pumpkin plants grow to spread out between the mounds. Our small gardens are always near our houses, so that we can tend them more easily. Recently some people have started living in larger villages and have built great palisaded forts around their villages to defend themselves against the Europeans -- and their gardens are like great fields, some distance away from their forts. |
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