What crops did Plains village communities grow?

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Great Plains Flint Hills region, eastern Great Plains, east-central Kansas.

Plains village communities, such as the Mandan, Hidatsa, Pawnee, Sahnish, and Omaha, established settlements along major river valleys to take advantage of fertile soil for agriculture.12

These communities primarily cultivated the following crops:
* Corn (maize)
* Beans
* Squash
* Sunflowers
* Tobacco12

These groups often practiced a seasonal lifestyle, dividing their time between village-based crop production and extended hunting expeditions. While some of these crops, particularly corn, beans, and squash, are famously known in North American Indigenous traditions as the "Three Sisters" due to their symbiotic planting benefits, Plains villagers also integrated sunflowers and tobacco into their agricultural practices.213