1. Are you familiar with Gilbert L. Wilson's "Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden"? 2. Do you know about the gardening techniques used by the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa tribes? 3. In the book, Buffalo Bird Woman talks about the process of planting corn, beans, and squash. As humans have evolved, how do her methods compare to modern planting techniques? Are these crops as important to modern-day people as they were back then to the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa tribes? 4. Buffalo Bird Woman describes the varieties of crops that they planted and how they would intercrop them. Do you use this method of intercropping different crops? If so what crops do you intercrop in your garden and how has intercropping benefited you? I5. n today’s world, there is technology involved in everything including gardening. Buffalo Bird Woman describes the tools that they used and how they were handmade. Do you have any tools that are handmade not machine-made? If yes how do these tools help you maintain your garden? 6. How do you know when to plant crops during the year? And how do you know what is the best time to harvest these crops? 7. The Hidatsa people used Cache Pits to store food. How do you store your food when done harvesting it? I included pictures of tools Buffalo Bird Woman used that were hand made and a picture of how a cache pit looks.