Introduction to the reprint edition -- Preface -- Foreword -- Tradition -- Beginning a garden -- Sunflowers -- Corn -- Squashes -- Beans -- Storing for winter -- The making of a drying stage -- Tools: hoes; rakes; squash knives -- Fields at Like-a-Fishhook Village -- Miscellanea -- Since white men came -- Tobacco.

Illustrations: Buffalo Bird Woman, 1910 / Gilbert Wilson -- Buffalo Bird Woman making a model corn stage as Frederick Wilson looks on, 1912 / G. Wilson -- Like-a-Fishhook Village being dismantled, July, 1887 / George Curtis -- Owl Woman with an antler rake, 1914 / G. Wilson -- Owl Woman showing how to use a digging stick / G. Wilson -- Sioux Woman, Goodbird's wife, hoeing squash to demonstrate the use of a bone hoe, 1912 / G. Wilson -- Owl Woman gathering flowers in a skin basket, 1914 / G. Wilson -- Scarecrow in a corn field, 1918 / G. Wilson -- Husking corn, 1909; the woman braids the best ears / G. Wilson -- Drying loose and braided ears of corn on a corn stage, 1909 / G. Wilson -- Owl Woman pounding corn into meal in a corn mortar, 1914 / G. Wilson -- Owl Woman slicing squash with a bone squash knife, 1916 / G. Wilson -- Goodbird sitting under slices of drying squash, strung on spits and laid on a structure to resemble a corn stage / G. Wilson -- Woman winnowing beans, 1909 / G. Wilson -- Model of a cache pit, 1912; made by Buffalo Bird Woman in the bank of the Missouri River to show cross section / G. Wilson.

Maps: The site of Like-a-Fishhook Village (old Fort Berthold) / Frederick Wilson -- The three historically documented Hidatsa village sites: Big Hidatsa; Sakakawea; Amahami -- Map of gardens S.E. [southeast] of village -- East-side gardens.

Hidatsa alphabet xxviii -- Description of varieties [corn] 58-59 -- Varieties [bean] 84.