Native American Foods -- Recipes

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--Frybread--Tasty Symbol of all-Indian unity
--Native cookbooks --Nutrition info, cookbooks for
kids
--Wild rice recipes --Maple sugar/syrup recipes
--Corn, hominy, cornmeal -- Beans and Greens
--Squash, pumpkin --Deermeat, Meat
--Fish, birds --Fruit and Berries
--Herbal Teas, Culinary --Xocoatl (Chocolate), Aztecs
Herbs (and south) YUM!
RECOMMENDED BOOKS -- for heavy-duty researchers and for students. About
Native plants, food, cooking, health and nutrition textbooks.
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CREDITS: Page logo of bear stars constellation (big dipper and others) is probably
drawn in black ink by Norval Morrisseau, Gull Lake Anishnabg artist, founder of
Medicine Painting style. It was donated to Akwesasne Notes in 1974 and used only once:
to put a medicine sign under an article by AIM leader John Trudell, about cleaning
ourselves up physically and spiritually from alcohol and other non-Indian vices. I
recovered it as part of my saving Notes Great Period art project, traced in FreeHand and
colored for thes pages. I drew the starmoon. Translation note: Wiisiniwan, the
Anisnaabemowin word for recipes topping this page, might really be better interpreted
as "Skill or talent for making food good to eat.".
Webmistress --Paula Giese.Text and graphics copyright 1995, 1996.
Last Updated: Friday, July 05, 1996 - 12:55:22 AM
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FRY BREAD POWER (Zahsakokwahn)
Frybread 1, Phyllis Jarves, Paiute
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Frybread 2, Paula Giese -- more food value in it, larger batch
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Frybread dawgs "animosh" (hot-dogs)--the bun is not necessary
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"Modern" Wojape--a berry pudding to eat with fry bread. From Stacy Winter, Crow
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Creek (SD) Lakota, made with frozen berries
Indian tacos--Made with hamburger
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Indian tacos 2--made with chicken/turkey
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Vegan (vegetarian) imitation-Indian tacos--made with seeds, soy grits, peanuts, no
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meat
--Frybread--Tasty Symbol of all-Indian unity
--Native cookbooks --Nutrition info, cookbooks for
kids
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--Wild rice recipes --Maple sugar/syrup recipes
--Corn, hominy, cornmeal -- Beans and Greens
--Squash, pumpkin --Deermeat, Meat
--Fish, birds --Fruit and Berries
--Herbal Teas, Culinary --Xocoatl (Chocolate), Aztecs
Herbs (and south) YUM!

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CREDITS: Page logo of bear stars constellation (big dipper and others) is probably
drawn in black ink by Norval Morrisseau, Gull Lake Anishnabg artist, founder of
Medicine Painting style. It was donated to Akwesasne Notes in 1974 and used only once:
to put a medicine sign under an article by AIM leader John Trudell, about cleaning
ourselves up physically and spiritually from alcohol and other non-Indian vices. I
recovered it as part of my saving Notes Great Period art project, traced in FreeHand and
colored for thes pages. I drew the starmoon. Translation note: Wiisiniwan, the
Anisnaabemowin word for recipes topping this page, might really be better interpreted
as "Skill or talent for making food good to eat.".
Webmistress --Paula Giese.Text and graphics copyright 1995, 1996.
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Native Food Web Pages & Cookbooks
The Three Sisters Cookbook from the Oneida Nation of New York.
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FOODS, COOKING, HERBOLOGY--Here are some Native cookbooks you
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can actually order from the Native Book Centre (Canadian on-line service).
One is more anthro stuff on ancient food processing (Iroquois); one is by a
Hopi lady don't know anything about it. But the real thing is the cookbook
put out by the ladies of Lovesick Lake Reserve, Canada, which sounds from its
title like a myth. It's here! Indeed, now I dug out the piece where
I first heard of it -- in issue No. 1 of Indigenous Women's Network Magazine.
It's so interesting, I retyped it (the IWN disks were lost from issues 1991
through 1994) here. Truly an example of COOKBOOK POWER!, a great
True Myth for Modern Times, and great wild game recipes, too.
AMAZON ON-LINE BOOKSTORE
Spirit of the Harvest: North American Indian Cooking, Beverly Cox and
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(photographer) Martin Jacobs, Publ. by Stewart, Tabori and Chang: NY,
1991, $32. This gorgeous cookbook is good reading as well as good eating.
The author includes some personal details from the native women who
shared their recipes, almost all of which are practical for city-dwellers with
modern kitchens. Gorgeous photos show how it should look. For many of the
foods snippets of cultural information (and misinformation) are provided.
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You won't find any commodities recipes here, nor does "culture" include
any of the problems tribal peoples have had with keeping their land or with
pollution affecting the small remaining landbases, getting arrested for
hunting-fishing-gathering, etc. . This is a classy suburban cocktail-table type
cookbook, despite the fact its recipes (mostly) work (if you can get the
ingredients). I admit to a weakness for glamorous cookbooks like this if I can
afford them, but reserve True-Hearted Kitchen Love for ones like that
produced by the Ladies of Lovesick Lake. The Amazon is just a place where
you can order it, there's no info about it there. I'd written this review note
before finding it on-line.
Native Harvests : Recipes and Botanicals of the American Indian--This was
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published in the '70's, click on the author's name to see a more recent book
on Native Feasts year-round from 1990. There's no info about it (like most of
the Amazon Native books) but I used to have this years ago, and it was good.
A Native American Feast--Cookbook from Amazon that impressed me,
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though I forgot to take any notes on it. By the same guy whose Native
Harvests I used to have many years ago. Possibly this is more in the line of
practical recipes.
Tepee Cookery : Or Lets Chew the Fat Indian Style : A Cookbook--Amazon
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doesn't give any info on its books (there's provision for users to enter their
own reviews). I picked this one because the author (whose name I forgot to
write down) is also co-author of an impressive-sounding book on traditional
agricultural knowledge in developing countries. So maybe she knows
something about Plains cookery. Maybe she's even an Indian person?
OTHER NATIVE COOKBOOKS
Gatsi Nosdi News: Ultimate Cherokee Cookbook, by Cherokee The Oukah
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(1700-1800 recipes) -- this is a historical cookbook, most recipes may not be
practical today, but there is historical-cultural info in it. You can order it
from Gatsi Nosdi Promotions, a Cherokee enterprise that operates a
restaurant in Oklahoma.
America's First Cuisines sort of historical cookbook or anthro-foodbook
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book by anthro Sophie D. Coe, deals with Aztec, Maya, Inca pre-conquest
foods, University of Texas Press, more of a scholarly work than a cookbook.
Kwakuitl Recipes--Taste of history/culture, not practical kitchen tips. From
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an anthro who published many of his Kwak'hwak'h wife, Ella's, methods of
cooking (more descriptions than recipes)in 1914. "First, catch your whale..."
kind of like the infamous recipe in Escoffier's French (for expert bigtime
chefs only) cookbook of the same period for turtle soup.
Bill's World of Food & Drink--This is a huge assortment of links compiled
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by the redoutable Canadian attorney-for-native causes, Bill Henderson,
whose Aboriginal Links are thorough, well-organized, and pretty-pages. He
likes good food, evidently, possibly a habit learned from his Native wife. A
huge assortment here of links to food-related pages. Unfortunately, a few of
the most interesting ones are deadlinks (Rio Lara-Bellon's compilation of
Native recipes--gopher archive is missing, under World Food Tour; the
Chocolate-Lover's Web Page, which I immediately tried to access, slavering
a bit or byte) -- gone, those, without forwarding URLs, alas.
Recipe Archive Index -- Amy Gale prepared this, has no Native American
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recipes, but there are some pretty good ones for fondues, meat loaf, and
many other things. These recipes were generally posted to one of the food
newsgroups over the past 2 years. Later, I hope to find Rio Lara Bellon's
archive of Native recipes she collected, Pablo Bellon says University of
Wisconsin is messing with its network, the gopher subdirectory where they
were is empty.
--Frybread--Tasty Symbol of all-Indian unity
--Native cookbooks --Nutrition info, cookbooks for
kids
--Wild rice recipes --Maple sugar/syrup recipes
--Corn, hominy, cornmeal -- Beans and Greens
--Squash, pumpkin --Deermeat, Meat
--Fish, birds --Fruit and Berries
--Herbal Teas, Culinary --Xocoatl (Chocolate), Aztecs
Herbs (and south) YUM!
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CREDITS: Page logo of bear stars constellation (big dipper and others) is probably
drawn in black ink by Norval Morrisseau, Gull Lake Anishnabg artist, founder of
Medicine Painting style. It was donated to Akwesasne Notes in 1974 and used only once:
to put a medicine sign under an article by AIM leader John Trudell, about cleaning
ourselves up physically and spiritually from alcohol and other non-Indian vices. I
recovered it as part of my saving Notes Great Period art project, traced in FreeHand and
colored for thes pages. I drew the starmoon. Translation note: Wiisiniwan, the
Anisnaabemowin word for recipes topping this page, might really be better interpreted
as "Skill or talent for making food good to eat.".
Webmistress --Paula Giese.Text and graphics copyright 1995, 1996.
Last Updated: Friday, July 05, 1996 - 12:55:22 AM
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FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, TEACHERS, PARENTS
An extensive set of links on Child & Teen Nutrition -- from Kansas State
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University.
Good Nutrition For Kids & Teens -- From the Child Development Institute.
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CNN - Food and Health News Main Page -- More on general health articles and
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tips than food, but thre are also complete scripts of shows that have aired since
last fall (which don't make that much sense without some kind of pix, at leaxt
some still frames). There's also topic descriptions of upcoming shows, mostly
broadcast on Saturdays.
NOT ON LINE: Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks, from Lerner Publishing,
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Minneapolis, 800/328-4929 for their interesting catalog of K-12 books. So far
there are 28 of these (none Native American--French, Swiss, German,
Vietnamese, Korean, African, Australian). They're hardbound, but not sturdily
enough for real kitchen cookbooks, 48-52 pages, very well illustrated with large
color photos of what it should look like (if it comes out right) and process
illustrations. The type is large. After an ingredients list, the process is step-by-
numbered-step, with pix or diagrams for any hard parts. There's a metric
conversion chart and safety hints in each book, just in case imaginative
math/science teachers have a taste for using recipes (especially for work on
fractions). Especially easy for cooking in a classroom setting is Ethnic Cooking
the Microwave Way. The 1992 Vegetarian Cooking Around the World is also
noteworthy. The Thai, Russian, Lebanese, and Hungarian cookbooks are also
Social Studies -- background about the countries, cultures, histories. Grade 5+.
NOT ON LINE: Foods We Eat Grades 1-4 series (Apples, Beans and Peas;
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Butter and Cheese; Chocolate; Citrus Fruits; Fish; Meat; Pasta and Rice; Sugar;
Vegetables) -- all 32 pages, hardbound, $17.50, 25% school discounts.) Lerner
Publishing, Minneapolis, 800/328-4929 for catalog. This series was begun in
1989; they're still adding to it. But I recommend much more highly the newer
Food Facts Grades 2-5 series which they're still working on. This has much
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