{"id":3975,"date":"2023-11-02T12:54:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T12:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2023-11-02T13:03:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T13:03:41","slug":"buffalo-bird-womans-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/?p=3975","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bird Woman&#8217;s Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3975\" class=\"elementor elementor-3975\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-821b1df elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"821b1df\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-38b21a3\" data-id=\"38b21a3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-803e73c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"803e73c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.6.7 - 03-07-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>I&#8217;m reading a great book : <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.library.upenn.edu\/women\/buffalo\/garden\/garden.html\">Buffalo Bird Woman&#8217;s Garden<\/a>. It&#8217;s a wonderful book about Native American Hidatsa tribe&#8217;s gardening practices.\u00a0<\/p><p>There are detailed descriptions of how the tribe used to grow, harvest and preserve corn, squash and beans.\u00a0<\/p><p>There are some interesting facts that I came across reading the book. One of them is as follows:<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; text-indent: 15px;\">&#8216;<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; text-indent: 15px;\">&#8216;When the squashes were brought in from the field, the little girls would go to the pile and pick out squashes that were proper for dolls. I have done so, myself. We used to pick out the long ones that were parti-colored; squashes whose tops were white or yellow and the bottoms of some other color. We put no decorations on these squashes that we had for dolls. Each little girl carried her squash about in her arms and sang for it as for a babe. Often she carried it on her back, in her calf skin robe.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It&#8217;s interesting that they neither drew faces nor decorated their squash dolls.They just knew that they were dolls\u00a0 and imagined the rest.\u00a0<\/p><p>The other one is how to separate the pulpy matter from the squash seeds . I always have trouble doing this and was wondering if there was a practical way of doing it. Here it is:<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>&#8216;<strong><em>&#8216;Squash seeds, freshly removed from the squash, are moist and mixed with more or less pulpy matter. To remove this pulp I took up a small handful of the fresh seeds, laid a dry corn cob in my palm and alternately squeezed and opened my hand over the mess. The porous surface of the cob absorbed the moisture and sucked up the pulpy matter, thus cleansing the seeds. As the cleansed seeds fell back upon the hide I took up another handful and repeated the process.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The book is full of little facts like these that were once a part of the everyday life.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading a great book : Buffalo Bird Woman&#8217;s Garden. It&#8217;s a wonderful book about Native American Hidatsa tribe&#8217;s gardening practices.\u00a0 There are detailed descriptions of how the tribe used to grow, harvest and preserve corn, squash and beans.\u00a0 There are some interesting facts that I came across reading the book. One of them is as follows: \u00a0 &#8216;&#8216;When the squashes were brought in from the field, the little girls would go to the pile and pick out squashes that were proper for dolls. I have done so, myself. We used to pick out the long ones that were parti-colored; squashes whose tops were white or yellow and the bottoms of some other color. We put no decorations on these squashes that we had for dolls. Each little girl carried her squash about in her arms and sang for it as for a babe. Often she carried it on her back, in her calf skin robe.&#8221; \u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting that they neither drew faces nor decorated their squash dolls.They just knew that they were dolls\u00a0 and imagined the rest.\u00a0 The other one is how to separate the pulpy matter from the squash seeds . I always have trouble doing this and was wondering if there was a practical way of doing it. Here it is: \u00a0 &#8216;&#8216;Squash seeds, freshly removed from the squash, are moist and mixed with more or less pulpy matter. To remove this pulp I took up a small handful of the fresh seeds, laid a dry corn cob in my palm and alternately squeezed and opened my hand over the mess. The porous surface of the cob absorbed the moisture and sucked up the pulpy matter, thus cleansing the seeds. As the cleansed seeds fell back upon the hide I took up another handful and repeated the process.&#8221; \u00a0 The book is full of little facts like these that were once a part of the everyday life.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[1731,157,1733],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growing","tag-buffalo-bird-woman","tag-garden","tag-native-american"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}