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& squash & beans when he was young. Sometimes [[progress?]] [[to him?]] I would see no white men.
In the spring would take their seed & farm their 1 or 2 acres of land. There were no idles ones all worked in the spring those who had no hoes worked with pairs of sticks. I thought then that God must have given the seed which the people had before the white people came. When they got their seed in they went on the hunt. Hard working & many [[?]]. All they thought of was their little garden they had left behind In the middle of the Summer came back with the skins for their tent cloths meat for their food & skins for their clothing. They made use of all animals.