theCryptofishist wrote:The thing I like about frybread (apart from tastiness, of course) is the whole meaning it has to me about survival and continued cultural evolution. After the US govment took away the land, it basically became responcible for the feeding of the indians. They shipped them flour, as if breadmaking were completely obvious. (Talk about cultural blinders!) Frybread is what the indians invented to do with it.
I just love that story.
My sister told it better.
That's an interesting story, Cryp. I have no doubt that it's true, but they must have had some baking powder/sode and some fat/oil for the frying. Probably the whiteys didn't have dried yeast back then.
The Injuns I know prefer bologna sandwiches.

The Alps fill the mind with an agreeable kind of horror.
- Addison