For those of you wondering about native restaurants, “The Sioux Chef” has opened a indigenous foods restaurant in Minneapolis. The food looks amazing and can’t wait to try it!
@jerryboden2671😂 in other words the Indian is so rich now he wants the rest of us not just eating bugs but paying exorbitant prices to do so . Is his name Claus by chance
Navajo here, just a couple corrections: Kneel Down Bread is called so because of the kneeling position you take when making the bread. Also, 'fry bread' isn't just a Navajo thing. It became a staple because the US military imprisoned us after forcing us to endure The Long Walk, the ingredients were given to us as rations during this time. We didn't know how to use a lot of these things (and a lot of what they gave us was rotten anyway) so we first began cooking the bread mixture over ashes. Frying it in the grease also became a thing in this time. It was prison food and was taken with us when we were finally released.
Thank you for sharing this history. I would like to add that native foods do not contain wheat or dairy- because wheat and cows were only introduced after colonizers came.
I often imagine a world where the anthropological facts, were taught and oral history was alive and well.! With the Germanic way of teaching it's just their story not truth. I believe our mother earth will heal us one day from this evil called science and technology.
@@loscheiner cows weren’t the only source for that type of milk. I remember my grandmother making a dish from bison milk, and her fermented meat made with deer milk. So to think dairy is only from cows is misleading misinformation.
@Dragon of HatefulRetribution I'm a fancy shawl dancer... sticking to traditional healthy foods help us powwow dancers with our endurance as well as reuniting with our communities during the season. An Elder offers you food, you eat it 😋
@@tammievaldez44 A couple pounds of elk meat (dried), then grind it and put in a bowl with some fat and dried berries, mix it up and mold into bars. That's what I do.
There's nothing particularly "weird" about these foods, just uncommon today. I wish there was a native American culture class in high school. I believe there's a lot to be gained.
We grew up in the Desert SouthWest. For a Summer, we lived in Gallup, New Mexico. We ate what they ate and it was so good. Many years later, I was trucking and had a weekly run up to Window Rock, Arizona to deliver produce and meat to their grocery store. Each time, I made sure to eat that very same food again. It was so tasty and satisfying, especially the Indian Fried Bread. Haven’t been back in fifty years. Before I expire, for sure, I’ll have to make one last trip and feed my face once again with that wonderful, blessed food.
I'm from a rez (Hoopa CA) and we are a river tribe, so at special events like at ceremonies we will have salmon on sticks, which is salmon on carved redwood sticks suck in the sand around a pit of fire. Next is the soup, which is traditionally made with buck meat, tan oak mushrooms, indian potatoes, wild onions, and with a small bowl of acorn soup. My family like to make little round fried bread for the soup too. I like the video. It was pretty accurate to the foods that we.
I really wish there was a restaurant that served these traditional foods, like an Italian restaurant or Mexican restaurant does. I think it would do very well.
We have that here in Albuquerque, NM at the Native American Cultural Center. There's a restaurant that specifically makes and serves traditional southwestern Native recipes.
This was very fascinating! I had no idea of any of these dishes!! I wish I could’ve learned these sooner. There needs to be more education of Native American culture and history like this video in schools! 🧡🧡🧡
There are several Native websites that have recipes for traditional food. This video only listed a few of the hundreds of dishes that were prepared by my people. The recipes varied according to region and seasonal availability. With the hundreds of edible plants and a huge variety of animals we had/have hundreds of variations of available food dishes. We had pottery and clay/stone ovens, smoking/drying racks, dehydrated fruits/meats/fish... the list is very extensive. Scientists found caches of pemican that was a couple of hundred years old and scientifically verified that it was still safe to eat.
I've had about a 3rd of these dishes and grew up with just a few of them. We didn't know where they originated from or how the recipes were acquired but only knowing they were passed down. Within the last 3 years, I became familiar with the acorn for flour and meal, as well as, many wild greens that grow in our yard and forest areas. I've been practicing wild medicine for a few years now and trying to learn more from our Native Ancestors but that is a bit tough because my skin color is what holds back the Elders from wanting to talk. I've been reading much and studying Native American medicine over the last few years but there is nothing better and more meaningful than a hands on "why our people use this and prepare this sacred healing plant". But I am quiet and listen to whatever I can and who ever will open up with me. It's not much but it is special when it happens.
I had the privilege of being billited on a reservation belonging to the Tsutini nation in Calgary, just on the outskirts in fact. It was really an amazing experience and similar in many respects to our connection to mother nature. We had the wonderful opportunity of visiting a neighboring nation, known as Siksika and visited many sacred sites as well as a feast at an event center. The food was quite an experience and learned their history from them not from some non native narrator. I found them more sensitive than we Maori from New Zealand and reserved. I'll never forget the quite hospitality of these people. Thank you for sharing.
@@pattytheseeker8902 strange how the term native Americans covers everyone from the Aztec to the Seneca. That's like one label for the Ancient Egyptians and the Stone Age Britons.
I don't know what it's called by my ancestors but we still eat kneel down bread, wojapi, bean bread, hot water cornbread(considered soulfood, but has indigenous roots.) Suncoast, all sorts of game meats like opossum, rabbit, squirrel, turkey, deer, elk, or whatever else that could be caught such as frog and turtle! We also collected bracken tips, perilla, mint, cress, and nuts. Pemican is also still eaten we make it for the guys when they go hunting, and my grandma brought pokeweed from Oklahoma to Washington so we had that growing up, and the fresh seafood, was also eaten because my ancestors were gullah but also coastal tribes. It's sad though because we don't have the language left in our family, or much of the culture. Just family recipes. Now that we live in Washington we got to sample the bounty from our brothers up here! My Mother is Korean and it's crazy how similar many traditions are, like collecting acorns to make food, and collecting bracken ferns, and perilla too. I'm not really crazy about Bannock though...o have yet to try Buffalo meat, and some of the other first nations foods. I REALLY want to travel up to Canada and visit the tsimshian nation, thier home is so lovely, and so is the tlingit, and the many tribes up here, beautiful land and just pure environment. We need to work to preserve these places and protect thier way of life! Indigenous people aren't dead, they're.....we're still alive and well.
I'm here in Washington and I can't believe what the bounty must have been way back, Salmon so thick you could walk on them and crab and shellfish. Must have been much tougher in the southwest. Over fishing destroyed it all, there were no fish back in the 70s when I visited here and fished, so sad all the habitat was destroyed.
Bison is so good. Every bit as good as beef but far more healthy for the body. I grew up in Washington next to a rez and my first friend, as a child, was Native American. His family introduced me to my first taste of smoked salmon which was easily the most delicious food I had ever tasted. Even now, all these years later, every time I see or hear the word 'salmon' or see a filet in a grocery store, it takes me back to that smoke house and that mouth watering smell.
Come to New Mexico and you can try authentic Native American foods. Or you can hire me and I’ll be your chef in person or I can teach you via FaceTime lol
I really appreciate not only the history lesson, of course, but the effort to provide the original terms for the various dishes in their respective Native languages, and especially the narrator's effort to pronounce these terms properly, which, since I don't speak any of these languages myself, I hope he was able to do the languages justice and get the pronunciations pretty close if not exactly right. To my ear they sound right, but since I don't speak these languages, I don't really know how good or bad he's done with the pronunciations. Either way, good job, Weird History!
RU-vid is unbelievable! A couple of minutes ago I was watching a video about meal preparation in a three star Michelin restaurant and now I'm watching primitive meal preparation. Awesome!
What a fantastic people, some helped Ireland during the Famine when they had little themselves What a great country America was. They took what they needed and respected the Earth. Pity America and may other countries don't take heed. No Global warming back then. Native Americans should be so proud of themselves. From Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
@@Nuevomexicano That's true, but what most people don't know is there was plenty of food in Ireland back then but the British shipped it to England for profit. Check out Trevellion. Amazing that somethings never change. Just look at poverty today in Ireland and America etc. All about profit and greed with some wealthy scum. Mind you not all, some rich people are generous 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇮🇪🇮🇪
@Jerry Boden Good post, Jerry. It's all about perception, nothing wrong with eating bugs. I remember going into a Oaxacan restaurant in Mexico City and being served an appetizer of fried Crickets. Not bad, a real nutty flavor.
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Last fall I made chocolate chip cookies with acorn flour! I hand cracked each acorn, leeched them, and used my mortar & pestle to grind into flour. My bf & I are not Native but we love foraging things straight from the land. Just last week I made a pie with his sister using blackberries we picked from the wild bushes in her yard. And another favorite is sautéed cattails! So good with just butter, salt & pepper!
The reason the Navajo Kneel down bread looks the same as Tamales from Mexico and Central America is because before borders separated us. Natives from the north and south would often trade and live along side each other. Colonialism has convinced us that we are different people but we are not.
@@YellowCapeInvincible Race matters little to war. Nor does blood or color or creed. That's just history mate. All Europeans are not one people, at least not because of blood. Nor were Native American groups. Certainly it is not enough to prevent division.
@Michelle Sahtu dene in Canada's north west territories/ western arctic speak the exact same language as the Navaho same people .dene are in Alberta. Montana etc same people same language . Due to residential school in Canada Eskimos and dene Indians have inter married where as even in the 1950s they were still deadly enemies .
Love your channel! Could you do more videos on Native American culture and life before colonists arrived? You never really learn much about Native Americans in the US schools so I would love to learn more about daily life, relationships between tribes, technology they used, etc!
Strange, at my school we had extensive lessons on native Americans. Did many projects. Built a small long house in the classroom in 4th grade. Went to the natural history museum to see artifacts and artwork, etc. As an adult with a better education, they're interesting but not much different than other Stone Age /nomadic tribes from Asia.
@@lookoutforchris out of curiosity what state was that in/how close to past or present Native American settlements? I went to school in Ohio, not near any previous Indigenous locations. I remember one year we had a small unit where students picked a tribe and presented on them/their culture and brought in a food item from that tribe. That’s the most that my education system brought up Native Americans other than occasional mentioning in the colonization of America by Europeans. Maybe location and its relevancy to Native American sites impacts education? Food for thought, I guess 😅
I remember years ago in Alaska and learning about how Eskimos survived off the land. The one thing I remember the most is how they preserved their meals over the winters. When hunting and killing a moose, they cut the moose up and kept the legs and hollow the inside of the legs, leaving the skin intact. They took the meat not only from inside the legs but from the moose in general and cook up a soup with the meat and vegetables such as corn etc etc. Once the soup was cooked up the eskimos would pour this back into the legs which now became a 'container' sort of speak for the soup. The top of the legs would be tied up on the top and then hung up to the top of a tall tree. The purpose of tying them up a tall tree served two prposes. One was animals could not smell the meat from that high up. Two, it would freeze from the freezing winter. Whenever there was a need for food during the winter, the eskimos simply went to the frozen soups that were hanging and take them back to their home and heat them up. Kind of like a MRE (emergency kit) Simple and ingenious!!
@@nazfan01 I remember years ago in Alaska and learning about how Inuuk survived off the land. fixed it for you should refer them to that always also Indians are for people in India not the indigenous people here in North America #AccountabilityCulture
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Red Oaks are very common in Southern California. I usually collect acorns between October and November under the old growth trees. You have to collect them green because the animals get to them very quickly. I usually spread them out over a towel in a safe dry cool place indoors and let them dry for about a month. By then they are easy to crack open. I usually use a corn hand grinder to grind the acorns whole into a course meal. Red Oak acorns have an enormous amount of tannins that is bitter, and leaves a lingering aftertaste. Too leech the tannins out, I put the acorn meal in a pot with water on a low heat, stirring it occasionally. I will take it off the fire when the water temperature reaches about 140° then dump the mash through a strainer then rinse with fresh water, then return the mash to the cleaned out pot, add fresh water, then do the process again. You can see the leached out tannins in the water. After I've done the leaching process about three times, I will taste a little piece of the acorn meal. If it is still too bitter, continue the leaching process a few more times, until the acorn meal suits your palate. Put the cornmeal in a cheesecloth and squeeze out the water. I spread the damp acorn meal on a cookie sheet and put it in very low heat in the oven until it is very dry. Once it is cool, the acorn meal can be ground into flour like any other grain. Acorn is an acquired taste. If you're going to bake with it, for the first time I would substitute 25% of the wheat flour with the acorn flour to start. Experiment from there. Once you have gathered and prepared acorns, then successfully make it into food. You will appreciate how laborious was for our Native American ancestors to eat a simple meal.
We learned at least some from them. We actually were allies with some such as the Pawnee, but unfortunately forming tribal alliances meant war with others like the Sioux. The Sioux and Cheyenne actually committed horrifying attrocities on the Pawnee and Crow, including murdering children and raping their women, one of the worst incidents being Massacre Canyon in Nebraska. Needless to say, the nearby settlers were absolutely shocked by the violence and some begged the US government to intervene. In the War of 1812, the Choctaw willingly helped us crush the British-supporting Red Sticks and take all of their land. Attrocities by our govt like Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears should NOT EVER be excused, but history is usually a LOT more complex than the media likes to portray.
They were not a unified people. Being friends with one group made us enemies with their neighbors. What your comment is perpetuating is the "noble savage" stereotype and is a form of racist bigotry. Educate yourself. There was huge differences between tribes and regions, they viciously fought with each other, committed genocide and cannibalism. They were not much different from other tribal or nomadic groups found across Asia. They we're not unfamiliar with watergate and they were highly territorial. They practiced slavery. They lost in competition with Europeans doing what humans have always done: compete with each other and fight over resources. And 99% of them were wiped out because they did not have immunity to common European pathogens. If you read the early history of America you will be shocked at the comparative level of honesty and compassion with which the federal government dealt with the Indian tribes. Several state governments were bad actors as were many individuals. They're lucky to still be alive. Other cultures would have truly wiped them out.
@@lookoutforchris perpetuating the idea of rampant cannibalism among America's indigenous people lime Europeans weren't grinding up fucking mummy's and eating them as medicine just over 100 years ago is racism and bigotry.
@@lookoutforchris buddy don't try to pretend what happened to the native wasn't genocide. You can't wipe away the sins of the usa by pretending that it was justified at all. You can exterminate large swaths of people including civilians, nor can you abusively break treaties and force them to repeatedly move and be moral. It wasn't war, it was a genocide because the usa quickly was much stronger than the natives, and rather than integrate them they got rid of them. What the spanish did was conquer, what the americans did was genocide. Thats why there are natives who are numerous and speak spanish to our south, but our lands have few of native decent.
I'd like to try just about every food mentioned in this video. I know acorns definitely have to be leached as they are very bitter. As a young child, I opened an acorn and popped the nutmeat into my mouth - and promptly spit it out. There is one dish I cook up for every Thanksgiving: Hidatsa savory stuffed sugar pumpkin. I use ground buffalo meat, wild rice, onions, eggs and sage, with salt, pepper and ground dry mustard. It's a hit with my family!
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Northern Chippewa Native here! Our diet is a little different from the Old West: blueberry bread, fry bread, corn, wild rice, fish and venison. A lot of fruits and berries, basically anything the natives found in the wild and were edible.
Now all native people eat is french fries, fries chicken, pizza, cheese burgers, chips and cola....except me of course , I try to set an example for all the fatties.
all sounds good to me ! back to nature, back to healthy unspoiled foods ! No chemicals, no messing with genes, just eat what you can find, and what grows.
@@fragolegirl2002 Navajo taco bread is not real Native food it is more likely Mexican foods introduced to Native community about 17th century. To begin with, Navajo original ancestors came from Siberia or Alaska and spoke Dane or Na-Dane (Athabaskan) languages have about 30 different dialects. Those people ate raw or dry fishes & meats when they didn’t have fire to cook.
Thanks for talking about Wiiwish! I live in Northern California among the oaks and they drop enormous amounts of nuts on some years. I always wondered if the Native America tribes in the area used them as a staple! Now I know! Thanks again!
But should not be eaten straight from the tree or ground. A special preparation needs to be done to make them safe. I ate one as a child, not knowing. and got pretty sick. I did that a lot as a child, eaten stuff from nature not knowing they were poisonous.
Do you think we just eat acorns everyday? My guy most of us are just fat eating McDonald's just like y'all. During special events, maybe we'll have some salmon on sticks or acorn soup during ceremonies, but the salmon is running out. The rivers are dying. The dams are killing them all... That got depressing fast but it's fact
I'm surprised Miwoks were mentioned! I'm half Miwok (mountain band). I wish you could just buy acorn flour so I can make fry bread with it. Creator knows I don't have time to hit the grinding rock for hours! 😁
@@aaronbone7077 That's why a lot of us are fat and diabetic. We were forced to eat from the food boxes, and natives weren't made to eat European foods. Too many of the wrong carbs, not enough whole foods. Personally, I have seen great improvement in my health by "eating like the ancestors" as much as I can. 😕
It took the entire video, but I'm very glad and honored that my tribal people were mentioned 😁 Tsalagi, or Cherokee people, had lots of different foods, but I think hickory oil (my grandma called it hickory stew) really was a specialty of ours. I'm not too sure how to make it myself, it was mostly a woman's job from what I understood, and my mom was never taught so I never got the opportunity to learn. My favorite food that is part of my heritage is venison jerky (deer jerky) and venison stew with corn and potatoes. 🤤
Loved hearing about ALL the different meals...the tribes worked SO hard to get together. Ive had a few of them, when attending various PowWow's over the many yrs. PILAMAYA...🌲 🐺 🌖
Fucking love fry bread bro! Used to be a shitty little harvest festival in pahrump, NV where i spent my 5-10 years old phase and there was a vendor who sold indian tacos which was just fry bread covered in taco meat and toppings it was absolutely brilliant! Thanks for sparking my memories
@@beeeean A line of dialogue from the excellent movie, Smoke Signals. It has well-written and believable characters, great actors, very real emotions, and heart-felt still up-to-date messages.
A lot of these sound pretty damn good, I wouldn't mind trying them all. There should be a restaurant that serves traditional food from as many tribes as they can.
I’ve been watching theses videos of food eaten during certain periods. All of those meals shown above have such creative delicious ingredients and look way more appetizing than ANY meal eaten during the depression era and the Native Americans ate off the land. Wow, just wow.
My mom is Sioux and was lived in Sioux valley MB, as a child she ate choke cherries in the summer time. It was not a fond memory. But we have stopped a couple times on the side of the road to eat them. They are very drying to the mouth and the seeds are huge. Strawberries, blue berries, bananas, other fruit in comparison is ridiculously sweet comparatively. No wonder my ancestors were fawking fit!
@@lookoutforchris she’s a mestiza not a Spaniard. Might as well call your black Americans British for being mixed with the pilgrims. Spaniards are white and no one thinks we mestizos are Spaniards in Spain.
@@fragolegirl2002 yea but blacks in the USA didn't mix with anglos like the Spaniards mixed with natives in Mexico. Most Mexicans have more Spanish to them than they want to accept. And a HUGE part, I repeat a HUGE part of Mexican culture is derived from Spain.
@lookoutforchris from what I know, I do not have Spanish in my blood. So no, my ancestors did not conquer another culture. Not everyone who is Mexican comes from Spanish decent.
I sincerely wish there were more cutltural stores and restaurants. I am so lucky to live in a place with lots of cultures that I had NEVER dreamed about being a simple American child born before the internet, blah blah. But going to college in these wonder twin cities blew my mind wide open. I remember gagging at sushi, to now find it one of my most favourite foods in the whole world. I remember being confused what a Halal market was...now I would go to any local/cultural market anyday to enjoy their wonderful foods and variety. I've learned so much of cultures from their traditional foods. I follow so many channels to learn how and what they eat, to change my perspective on the world, and I always desperately wish I could try it. I just want to learn more and while some foods do certainly take a bit of time to adjust to, there is few better ways to learn than through your stomach if you are willing to learn ^_^
I grew up on fry bread… sooo good! Served with traditional eulachon grease, berries and whipped cream, with just honey, as a side for soups, stews, or chilli or as a base for tacos, it can’t be beat.
Buddy Whatshisname - Interesting, I noted you mentioned "traditional eulachon grease", where do you acquire this as part of your diet, what part of the country do you reside?
@@lb6110 northern Vancouver Island. ‘Namgis First Nation territory. The grease we have is from Kingcome Inlet, Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw nation territory, my eldest stepdaughter’s band. My daughter helped make the two gallons we have a few years ago, as the eulachon run is fairly intermittent theses days and that was the last reasonable sized run. We use it sparingly.
This made me miss home a fair bit lol I grew up on a Dakota reservation and frybread and wojapi are so good and eaten all the time still! My best friend's grandma made the best wojapi and my ex's mom made frybread with a little sugar to sweeten it
Here in Texas what we call the 'desert' near the Pecos, the native folk called the 'Supermarket.' The fish swam thick in the Pecos along with the turtle and other river critters of the edible sort. There is a type of root called 'mogollon" that is big as a yam. It has to roasted underground a couple of days but its sweet as molasses. Cactus apples in season grew more than could be eaten, along with soft-shell pecan and maypop. Some tribes collected the acorns that grow iff the live oak tree and made porridge and a kind of flat cake. Wild honey was harvested ( with clay pot of smoking herbs and a yard of guts).
Hello! Could you please do something on 🇰🇷 Korean history? Maybe the Goryeo/Buddhism to Joseon/Confucianism transition, or the fact that they had to ferment so much food in order to eat, or the constant Japanese invasions? I looked throughout all of Weird History’s videos and there isn’t a single video on Korea. Thank you!
Love living in the mountians of new mexico next the several different tribes. Have had the opportunity to eat several of these meals/ foods. Not for everybody, but it's better that way.
Most of these are still common food staples on the reservation where I was born and raised(Oglala Lakota Sioux from Pine Ridge) although I can’t speak for the Navajo recipe’s shown, but fry bread is everywhere!!! Lol To this day almost every ceremonies and gathering involves most of these foods. To this day I still take Wasna with me when I go hunting.
In my foods stores there's always pemmican. Pemmican is compact, super long shelf life, and contains all the nutrients and calories needed to continue to live.
@@KeyofDavid5778 Usually venison or elk, local berries (most often dried huckleberries and/or thimbleberries, occasionally cranberries) and bear fat (if not available, then beef suet).
@@KowboyUSA That sounds wonderful! On a big time backpacker and back country hiker. I need something to sustain me longer as the junk that's in the stores is just that..... If you have a good recipe throw up my way. Thank you so much
Leeching is a big step in preparing acorns. Tannins have benefits in small quantities but can be toxic and disrupt nutrient absorbed. But indigenous tribes in the NW had a really awesome way to remove the tannins by running cold water over the ground acorns that were in a thin layer over soft sand.
I’m Native American and when there’s a get together of any kind, there’s enough food to feed 12 Army’s lol. My tribe were fishermen, we lived along the coast of San Diego. I still make many of these dishes but I use beef, fry bread is my favorite to make and eat. My grandma made wiiwish the acorn dish, that I didn’t like, to me it tasted like sand, I’m from the Diegueno tribe, now known as the Kumeyaay
@@mikevictor5945 my youngest daughter and her family were here this past weekend, they went home yesterday, they live in Oklahoma we live in Missouri, and I started teaching my 10-year-old granddaughter how to make frybread, we made Navajo Tacos, my 13-year-old grandson ate two big tacos lol. My grandma made the best cabbage soup and corn soup, I'm not all that fond of rabbit or deer, but I ate it. I learned to cook by watching my grandma and my aunt, my mom couldn't cook to save her soul lol.
The three essentials - Corn , Beans and squash .. Any corn type , any bean , any squash in unison provide all the essential ingredients , vitamins, proteins, needed for survival . Indian Corn - The purple , red ,blue multi colored corn will last indefinitely similar to honey if stored correctly. The Ute tribes would collect a variety of berries at Mesa Verde and crush them down into huge discs weighing on average 80 lbs and take them to their winter camp . Find the best Pine nuts on mesa tops , less or no squirrels to eat them . They are delicious when fresh . Pinion Pines . Hickory nuts are delicious , Very sweet . Collect in fall on rocky slopes ,south facing slopes. Ground nuts are various nuts - chesnut, acorn , hickory etc that are still good and edible until spring when they start to grow. Rake away the ground cover to reveal them or find an area that has been recently burned . Nuts will be every where ... Soak in a tub of water overnight to find good ones . Good ones float , bad ones sink ...Soaking will help lessen the bitterness of tannin.. Black walnut husks are dangerous so wear gloves when processing them . Soak after de- husking them . If starving them crush husk and throw water into stream or river . Praralyzes fish . Collect fish downstream or in lake, pond and eat .. Illegal but if your starving ? Store very dryed corn deep underground on dry slope , hill top , etc ,,, Keep from getting wet or humid when stored . Indian corn can last thousands of years if stored properly .. Make a food cache out of tree limbs . A buffalo float or boat in upside-down position . Graft all limbs together then graft into nearest same species tree . The cache becomes living cache and will last for hundreds of years .. Store your valuables in it also , Cover with hide then several inch layer of dirt so that it breathes ... A hole with cap ,hatch in top center to allow access...
Another fact to add about Piki, it is used for all ceremonial activities & there are certain ways it has to be folded when presenting it for certain occasions. Its used throughout a persons whole life starting from your tiqatsi (baby naming), until death which its used for a persons final meal. All Hopi women have to know how to make Piki if she ever wants to get married in the Hopi way, the bride makes piki and presents it to the grooms family as a proposal. #Hopi
@Michelle Yes, first Indigenous people in North America are Mongoloid who crossed Bering Land Bridge ‼️‼️‼️ Scientists, Archeologists, and Anthropologists proved that Siberians migrated North America 35000+ years ago.
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I've had authentic fry bread. My town is about a half hour from a reservation that I drive thru often. Absolutely delicious! Would love to try other meals and foods from the tribes!
Indian tacos look REALLY GOOD. Anything made with tree nuts, acorns or others is a delicacy... Cookies made with fresh acorn flour are absolutely wonderful.
I truly love this channel, sir! As a kid, I found history class to be boring, I hope I'm not alone. But this is great, and I go out of my way to absorb as much as I can now! Stupid kid, right? Lol edit: I find it interesting that native American people have pretty much zero tolerance for alcohol, I have unfortunately met a woman that died from it, and dated a man who was half native and was very violent because of it. In my opinion, they just can't handle it, and it is not allowed on reservations.
I've always been interested in the stories from history. Sadly, most history classes seem obsessed with forcing people to memorize dates and useless facts.
im native, but dont live on the rez. Can confirm, i cant drink alcohol at all, within a few sips im passing out! My father can drink alot, and stay normal, but my grandmother on my dads side turned violent and abusive while drinking. It is strange how alcohol affects us differently from other races!
as a filipino we have tamale version here we called it "Binaki" They are distinctively wrapped in corn husks and are commonly sold as pasalubong and street food here in Northern Mindanao.
How very interesting. I hope one day I have the good fortune of tasting these foods in the so-called "Indian Reservation" and hopefully in a First Nation speciality restaurant. Best wishes from India.
In Australia, we also eat fried bread. We usually called them fried damper some communities call them Johnny cakes. It was also came from rations from missions and reserves.. thankfully Indigenous food is making a comeback. I'd love to see what you can find out about Australian Indigenous foods.
@@annwright4918 there are some that I won't eat, such as totems, also I asked that question because your name is familiar, I know it's common enough, but would've been ridiculously awesome
Very good pronunciation, especially of the Navajo words! A lot of these foods have clearly been created with influence from European foods. Sugar, milk, mutton, pork - all this would not have existed in the Americas before the Europeans came. As to which one I would want to try - all of them but without the meat, I'm vegetarian. I love corn bread by the way! And here's a question, wonder if anyone knows about this: I've heard that Native Americans have problems consuming wheat and milk. I'm half Native and I indeed I got Celiac Disease and lactose intolerance. Does anyone know if it's true that this is a genetic thing for Native Americans? I live in the UK so don't have access to all the information about Native American genetic conditions.
people from Asia, Africa and Europe have been around animals that produce milk for longer than Native Americans so other races got more use to milk than Natives since it was just introduce 500 years or less depending of the territory
@@cantcomewithsomethingorigi6799 Yes I wondered if it had something to do with our bodies not being used to it. There is also a theory that says, one is usually allergic to things that don't originate where one's origin is from - it's as if the body is rebelling against anything that is not of the same origin as one is. And that is ethnic origin, regardless of where one lives.
@@LittleKitty22 that theory sounds more like pseudo science than anything, it that was a thing Potatoes, Peppers and Tomatoes would be rejected by most populations cause they only been introduce in most places like 500 years ago
@@LittleKitty22 It's physiology. Organisms of most young mammals (including humans) stop producing lactase (an enzyme needed for milk digestion) after being weaned off the mother's milk. But in some pastoral populations in Asia, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa mutations happened, that allowed those people to produce lactase into adulthood. Thanks to those mutations even adults can consume and properly digest dairy products. But not all humans carry those mutations, thus they are lactose intolerant. No magic, just biology. Lactose-tolerant populations have huge nutritional advantage, because dairy products are excellent sources of proteins, fats and many microelements (like calcium). People eating dairy products tended to be stronger, healthier and had more surviving children due to better nutrition.
In the Caribbean, the Taino natives back then and the people living there now still eat yuca (called cassava manioc), maiz (maize), batata (sweet potato), maní (peanuts), guayaba (guava), papaya, mammee, pineapple, peppers, Malanga and Yautia (taro root). They also fished and caught small game. When the Spanish first got to the Americas they first met the Taino people of the Caribbean which explains why many of these native words for these new fruits, root crops and other words made it into the Spanish and then English language.
Many of the foods in this video are post-contact recipes. Potatoes, sugar, lard, pork for example could have only become available after the Spanish arrived. Potatoes are Andean. Cane sugar arrived to the Caribbean in the late 16th century. All indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere are "Native American".
I believe they just need to cook for a very long time, that’s all. Or else they taste bitter. And just think about society now-a-days,… right? It’s SO fast paced that it probably just fell out of favor since it not only takes forever to cook, but we also have so many countless other options that don’t take as long to prepare. I mean, people don’t really eat dandelions anymore either, and they’re quite easy to prepare, as well as extremely abundant!
Acorns have to be soaked and rinsed to remove the bitter tannins, dried, ground into flour, and cooked to denature harmful enzymes, usually as a flatbread or in a stew. I consider it a survival food now. You can get a similar flour from the inside of sunflower stems. I have not tried that yet.
worth noting frybread was not a part of the navajo cuisine before they were forced onto reservations. none of the ingredients (other than water) were things that they had access to in their native lands, but were things that the indian agents provided to the tribes of reservation (since the tribes were not allowed to hunt large game nor had access to the familair plantlife they'd previously gathered for consumption) the agents would hire people to show the tribes how to make bread dough, which eventually got adapted into fry bread. originally it was just baked in an open top pan or a large flat rock near the fire, more modern versions are typically fried in oil somewhat like doughnuts. the reservation diets were usually very unhealthy, even when the agents were not actively cutting the foodstuffs with unsafe inedible materials in order to save money. (it was not uncommon for agents to issue as much flour as was mandated, mix with dirt in order to meet the quota of bags, allowing them to either pocket the savings or sell the rest of the flour to white settlers. the shortening was often rancid, the milk was often going sour or more often, made from powedered or canned varieties. etc.)
Thank you for clearing that up. The history of fry bread and unhealthy diets by the native peoples goes directly back to the way the American government and their representatives treated natives on the reservations - denying them nutritious foods and stealing beef meant for the reservations. I truly wish native people would reject the unhealthy lifestyle and proudly return to their pre reservation diets. What you stated here is spot on.
The Native American people were very savvy about what they could eat from their environment. They knew what plants, roots, flowers, fruits etc were edible- and which were toxic. They had a great deal of knowledge about their surroundings, and tremendous instincts for how to live within their means- unlike most people today who are too selfish to want to learn about such things.
What an incredibly rich cuisine....sophisticated in preparation, rich in nutrition, and certainly delicious...and enormous variety. A shame that western settlers mercilessly wiped a native culture that lived in harmony with nature... and put them in "reserves".
The first picture in the video is of Seminole/Creek ladies from the east. Not the west. But still it's good to see our old photos being used on a platform like this. One of my favorite channels.
These recipes speak to me. Sweet and Savoury foods have thown down the gauntlet to humanity itself even before the proper french schools of Le Cordon Bleu were established. Eating chemistry so to speak is a reward for everyone.
