A little Native American Christmas humor

[Goodpasture]

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[kolanuraven]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Julie]

love the super hero Fry Bread Man

 

[kolanuraven]

That got on my mind so bad....that's what we had for supper last nite.


Fry bread, pinto beans, and all the fixin's!!!!!


You can't beat good fry bread!

 

[Liberty Belle]

kola: You can't beat good fry bread!

Nope. It can't be beat. But in our house it's squaw bread. I realize that's the politically incorrect term, but that's what my mixed blood father called it and if it was good enough for him and grandma, it works for us.

Our family enjoyed a couple batches of squaw bread this week along with other family ethnic dishes like lefse, Scottish shortbread, rommegrot, and kuchen.

And we wonder where those extra pounds come from? :roll:

 

[Anonymous]

kola: You can't beat good fry bread!

Nope. It can't be beat. But in our house it's squaw bread. I realize that's the politically incorrect term, but that's what my mixed blood father called it and if it was good enough for him and grandma, it works for us.

Yep--thats what it is in our house too-- squaw bread....And we must be all on the same wave length--after reading this post I mentioned to Grandma that we hadn't had any squaw bread in ages- and she promised to mix up a batch this weekend....

 

[Mrs.Greg]

Is fry bread Bannok??

 

[kolanuraven]

kola: You can't beat good fry bread!

Nope. It can't be beat. But in our house it's squaw bread. I realize that's the politically incorrect term, but that's what my mixed blood father called it and if it was good enough for him and grandma, it works for us.

Yep--thats what it is in our house too-- squaw bread....And we must be all on the same wave length--after reading this post I mentioned to Grandma that we hadn't had any squaw bread in ages- and she promised to mix up a batch this weekend....

Kuchen.....I've become a fan of that wonderful stuff!!! :lol: :lol:

Bannock..not sure about that Mrs. G.


On this side of the Big River it's always called Fry Bread.....I've never heard anything other than that all my life. Either name...good stuff!!

Even better with a bit of sugar, some strawberries and whipped cream as desert!!!!


I've even got a special black iron pan used ONLY for fry bread and fry bread alone!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

Is fry bread Bannok??

Yep-- pretty much the same thing....I've seen it made with different additives...The trustees at the tribal jail used to always make it with raisins in the dough...I've seen them use other berries and fruit sometimes-- but I like it just plain--with chokecherry syrup poured over it....

 

[OldDog/NewTricks]

To (") Goggle "Bannock" I'm learning

We eat Open Face Fry Bread Taco's here

http://home.comcast.net/~osoono/ethnicdoughs/frybread/frybread.htm

Indigenous Peoples

Tous droits réservés ©Many indigenous people around the world have recipes for fry bread. The recipes are simple, mostly savory, but some are sweet.

Also called bannock.

Photo above and on previous referencing page © Paul Casavant

Britons have baked bannock at least since the time of the Druids (who avoided bad luck by never kneading the dough ounterclockwise). Brought to North America by early settlers, it soon became a staple for First Nations peoples across the continent. And everyone makes it with what they have at hand; ingredients include cornmeal, flour, rolled oats and wheat bran, lard or shortening, eggs, blueberries, molasses or sunflowers. From Canadian Living.

"Flour was a luxury item in the early days of the fur trade. It was used to thicken pemmican style soup, rubbaboo or occasionally to make galettes," writes Beulah Bars in The Pioneer Cook (1980, Detselig Ent. Calgary, Alta.).

"Galette (or gellette) was the name used by the voyagers of the North West Company for an unleavened flour-water biscuit made by baking in a frying pan, or in the ashes of the camp fire. "The Selkirk Settlers referred to their flour water biscuit as bannock. Eventually bannock became the name accepted and recorded in journals and diaries throughout the western interior of Canada." By the mid 1800s, the original flour water mixture became more elaborate with the addition of salt, suet, lard, butter, buttermilk, baking soda, or baking powder. Bannock acquired other names, too; bush bread, trail bread, or grease bread. The traditional way to prepare bannock was to mix the ingredients into a large round biscuit and bake in a frying pan or propped up against sticks by the campfire. The frying pan usually was tilted against a rock so that it slanted towards the fire for part of the baking. From the Pioneer Cook


One of the earliest quick breads, bannock was as simple as flour, salt, a bit of fat (often bacon grease) and water. Indians wrapped a similar dough around sticks driven into the ground beside their camp fire, baking it along with freshly caught fish. Today's native Fried Bread is like bannock and cooked in a skillet. Toutons are similar bits of dough deep fried. At a promotional luncheon for the 1992 Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Eskimo Doughnuts, deep fried rings of bannock dough, were served. It is said that Inuit children prefer these "doughnuts" to sweet cookies. Source

"Kenny Blacksmith, a former chief of the Cree community of Mistissini of northern Quebec, told me that they learned to make bannock from the Scottish who settled up in Northern Quebec several hundred years ago. They did not have flour before the arrival of the Europeans. When he went to Scotland a couple of years back, he had the priviledge of teaching the Scottish again how to make bannock." Jacques Dalton (Canadian Living)

North American Indian Recipes:

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Tumasis (Passamaquoddy fry bread)
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Navajo Fry Bread
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Inagami-pakwejigan (soft bread)
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Anish-nah-be pakwejigan (real Indian bread)
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Epangishimog pakwejigan (shuswap bannock)
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Missiiagan-pakwejigan (sunflower bannock)
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Canadian Cree Indian bannock

 

[Liberty Belle]

Oldtimer: The trustees at the tribal jail used to always make it with raisins in the dough...I've seen them use other berries and fruit sometimes-- but I like it just plain--with chokecherry syrup poured over it....

It's traditional to eat squaw bread with wojape. For those of you who have never heard that term, wojape is a delicious berry pudding, made with whatever seasonal or dried berries you have, sugar, water, and flour to thicken. Not really all that different than what Oldtimer is doing when he pours chokecherry syrup over it! And no different at all if the syrup is thick.

How many of you know about chokecherries and buffalo berries?

Anybody else gettin' hungry?

 

[Anonymous]

Grandma made up the Squaw bread last night for supper- and there was a couple extra pieces left over- so I nuked them this morning and had them for breakfast-- with more chokecherry syrup..... :wink:

I noticed this article in the paper today- talking of fry bread....
Also shows that no matter how bad our government/politican problems are- they could be worse :shock: :???: :wink: :lol:
Seems like this is an everyday happening on the reservation with Tribal government.... :roll:

Tribal standoff ends with arrest
By BECKY SHAY
Of the Gazette Staff

What started in July as a shove between two Northern Cheyenne tribal leaders ended late Friday night with one of those men leaving the president's office in handcuffs.

Ousted Northern Cheyenne Tribal President Eugene Little Coyote was arrested at about 10:30 p.m. Friday and charged with trespassing at the Little Wolf Capitol Building in Lame Deer. He was released from jail early Saturday morning after $50 bond was posted.

The arrest came the day after the Bureau of Indian Affairs recognized former vice president Rick Wolfname as president.

In July, Wolfname and Little Coyote bumped shoulders and got into an altercation in the capitol building. Their dispute became more polarized throughout the year. Little Coyote and his supporters held what they called a peaceful standoff, trying to hold Little Coyote's position and office space, when 12 BIA officers from the Northern Cheyenne and Crow Agency police departments breached the building. The BIA cut power to the building about 8 p.m., and shortly after the generators kicked in. Propane was then cut, too, meaning heat stopped.

The BIA special agent in charge, Matthew Pryor, said the tactic of cutting comforts to the building was made with hope that the young and elderly would leave. Just a few people left; Little Coyote's supporters had thought that Wolfname's people would cut the power, so they started gathering candles, flashlights and blankets around 6 p.m.

Pryor met with Little Coyote four times Friday. Pryor also met with Wolfname and council members. Pryor said he and Little Coyote have had a good government-to-government relationship, and he hoped that diplomacy and negotiations would work to resolve the situation peacefully.

"I did everything I could in an effort to have him leave office with nobody getting hurt and him going out with some dignity, as he requested," Pryor said.

Pryor said he told Little Coyote, " 'There's an appeal process set up, you can do that, but you just can't do that from here. You can't cease tribal business, there are still people who need services. You need to leave.' I went as far as to offer him a place in my office."

During the day, Pryor brought Little Coyote documents to bolster the case for him to leave the building, including a letter from national BIA Director Jerry Gidner requesting that Little Coyote vacate the office by 5 p.m.

On Pryor's last visit, after 5:30 p.m., he asked Little Coyote to have the women and children leave the building.

It was during that meeting that Pryor brought Little Coyote a resolution passed by the council Friday - all members who along with Wolfname split from the administration this summer - that declared Little Coyote in trespass and asked the BIA to remove him from the building.

Little Coyote said the resolution wasn't valid because it had not been approved by the BIA.

BIA breach

Little Coyote said the supporters were about five hours into the standoff and dishing up a stew and fry bread dinner in the conference room next to the president's office when they realized someone was trying to enter the administrative offices.

Little Coyote was back at his desk with his food and called the others into the office. They closed the door and put a table in front of it, he said.

The banging they initially heard increased, and the outer office door broke open.

The BIA team entered with Tasers and firearms. It did not carry pepper spray. The pepper spray is a tool officers can use to make people submissive, but Pryor said he was concerned about the children who were with Little Coyote.

The team entered the building, arrested Little Coyote and was out in a little more than two minutes, Pryor said.

"We were quick and professional," Pryor said. "There was no dialogue really with anybody; we didn't have time for that. All the talking was done. I'd done that all day."

Little Coyote said he had agreed not to resist if the situation came to an arrest. As his group heard heavy footsteps moving down the halls, Little Coyote said he yelled for his supporters to sit down and be submissive. That's when officers burst into the office, he said.

"They came in with weapons drawn," Little Coyote said. "It's exhilarating in the wrong way to have loaded weapons pointed at you."

Tribal members videotaped the incident. Watching the footage Saturday was emotional for Little Coyote.

"The arrest itself, I didn't care, but when I watched the tape - I couldn't see much, it was dark - but to hear the screams of terror from our women and children and the police hollering, it made me break down," he said.

Little Coyote said officers quickly handcuffed him and that his wife and son tried to hug him. From the officers' perspectives, people moving in were trying to shield Little Coyote, Pryor said.

Little Coyote said he believed a Taser was going to be used on his 17-year-old son. The boy was later arrested and taken to the youth detention facility in Busby on a charge of intimidation. He will remain there until a judge hears his case, Little Coyote said.

Little Coyote said he was whisked out the west door, where a police car was waiting with the door open. With two officers in front and one in back with him, "we shot out of there," Little Coyote said.

Pryor said he knew of three arrests - one on a warrant when the person came to the police department, and two at the building when Wolfname asked officers to return because of fighting.

The police cleared the capitol in about 15 minutes, and soon after the parking lot started to empty, Pryor said. Little Coyote and Wolfname supporters left the building. The officers checked offices twice and secured them before letting the elected officials return, Pryor said.

 

[Liberty Belle]

The whole reservation/tribal government thing is a huge mess that will only be resolved when the reservation land is divided up and given to the enrolled members of the tribes. Give the individual Indians the deed to their acres and turn them loose to make their own way in the world to sink or swim just like every other race. :shock:

Here's the latest mess we have to deal with in South Dakota:
http://rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2007/12/30/news/top/doc477732814dc0b300849141.txt

Unbelievable!!! Makes me real proud of my heritage sometimes...

 

[mrj]

Liberty Belle, it really is a sad situation. There are so many good people who suffer because too many misuse Tribal and Federal money and then there is the violence and failure to care properly for children and the elderly. Such a mess. Sadly, it seems each new tribal election is based on fraud and theft of the previous one. It is hard enough for any of us to continue believing good will prevail, but how much more so it must be for tribal people? I feel privileged to have met many who are wonderful people and it is sad that their ways SEEM not to be dominant in todays' society on and off the reservations.

My grandmother, who came to SD from MN as a young woman (of English descent) about 1906 really believed the reservation system was necessary to help the people to have time to change, as well as to protect them from those few INDIVIDUALS, not government or white people in general, who would have eliminated them by whatever means necessary. I'm sure she would be horrified at what goes on today.

Keep the faith and cherish what is right and good from your heritage while you stand up against the bad things that SOME people do.

mrj