The use of gardening, hunting, and gathering for purposes of food, as well as for social and medicinal purposes was a staple in the American Indian community. How one obtained sources of food varied from tribe to tribe, as some American Indian tribes were significantly more agricultural. Sedentary American Indians tend to develop a strong cultural and spiritual bond to the lands they occupy. Agriculture enabled them to produce enough food to establish large villages. American Indians from those areas used special garden techniques like irrigation, terracing, crop rotation, and planting windbreaks to improve their farms. They usually harvested enough crops to dry and store for the
