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The Cherokee planted beans, squash, corn, sunflowers and tobacco.  The beans, squash, sunflowers, and tobacco were planted between rows of corn to save other land for hunting.  Both of the banks of the Mississippi River were covered with farms.  The corn was so luscious there, that in one year they had a two or three year supply.  They made "soup" with meat, roots, and farm crops. They made corn into corn mush and cornbread.  They put the corn into storage homes for the next winter, spring and summer.  Some Cherokee also grew pumpkins to eat, as well as to feed their stock.