USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Mississippian peoples were excellent farmers. Notably, Cherokee women planted and harvested crops, including beans, squash, corn, tobacco, and sunflowers. They supplemented their diets with acorns, nuts, seeds, and fruits.

Detailed explanation-2: -Common crops were corn, beans, and squash. They also raised sunflowers (for their oil) and tobacco. They gathered wild plant food such as greens, berries, nuts, and acorns. Wild game was abundant in most of the Southeast.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most people of the Southwest combined farming with hunting and gathering. A tribe’s nearness to water influenced how or if they farmed. The tribes that lived near the Colorado River or other major waterways could rely almost entirely on farming for food. They planted corn, beans, pumpkins, melons, and grasses.

Detailed explanation-4: -By the time of European contact, most of these Native American tribes had settled in villages of 500 people or fewer, and grew corn, beans, squash, sunflowers, greens, tobacco, and other crops. The southeast Native Americans also gathered berries, nuts, wild plants, and roots from the surrounding forests.