Mastodawn

This was a good day. 🫶🏼 #frybread

If the right things came together, I would love to do an open #frybread feed for #randomchurch. Just needs to be a Sunday with the right place and vibe for it. I am a seasoned frybread maker, have been doing such since age 12 when living on the #CrowReservation.
Now I am in the #pnw and I just don't find it many places, not the way Gramma used to make (and how I keep making).

Leaf Jan 22

Pizza night just got way more exciting! Our #FryBread #Pizza is the ultimate comfort food mashup. Crispy, chewy, and delicious! #recipe #Ontario

https://artsincubator.ca/cookbook/recipes/italian-fusion-fry-bread-pizza

Italian Fusion Fry Bread Pizza | Manitoba Cookbook

Experience the ultimate comfort food mashup! This recipe transforms traditional Native American fry bread into a crispy, chewy, and utterly delicious pizza crust, topped with your favorite Italian flavors.

Leaf Jan 20

Warm, aromatic #FryBread meets creamy #ButterChicken in this incredible fusion dish! Comfort food just got a delicious upgrade. You HAVE to try this! #recipe #Ontario

https://artsincubator.ca/cookbook/recipes/indian-spiced-fry-bread-with-butter-chicken

Indian-Spiced Fry Bread with Butter Chicken | Manitoba Cookbook

Aromatic, tender fry bread infused with garlic and cilantro serves as the perfect scoop for a rich and creamy butter chicken. This fusion dish is a spectacular celebration of spice and comfort.

Julia Dec 12

My kitchen is my favorite place in the world. If it wouldn’t be for my children, I would probably never set foot out of it. But children move around and move me with them — from LA, to Moscow, to China, to Sicily, to UK. Now in AZ.

While in AZ, Navajo fry bread is a must. This deep fried flatbread carries an intense cultural meaning. When in the 19th century Native Americans were relocated by the US government and cut off from their traditional corn and beans, to survive, they invented this bread using allotted rations of flour, baking powder, and lard. The story of this bread is a story of oppression and survival.

The oily light bread is shaped like a small pizza, puffed like naan, has the texture of a doughnut and thin layers like roti canai. It is topped with various vittels and used like a tortilla to wrap them and deliver for a bite.

To try the bread, we stopped at The Fry Bread House, a small unassuming but James Beard recognized eatery on the side of a Phoenix highway.

My dining companions ordered The Ultimate version with beef, refried beans, sour cream, chilies, and cheese. I picked The Waila with ground beef patties, onions, cheese, tomatoes, and a hatch chili.

When the three giant disks overhanging dinner plates appeared in front of us, I thought my dinner, breakfast and lunch for the next day were sorted.

The bread was melting and flaking in my hands. Juices were dripping. I went piggy with it. Alternating between the red and green chili sauces, to the admiration of my table mates who stopped not even reaching half way, I devoured the whole thing. Honestly, I don’t even know where it went — it happened so fast. Puffed bread with all its fixings puffed into a thin air.

Did I feel stuffed? No — I have a good appetite after all. But typing this the next day afternoon, I am still not hungry.

#food #frybread #arizona

SunnyIndigo Nov 27

#NativeAmericans #frybread #bloggers #SunnyIndigo.com

Jason Stiff Nov 21

It's a fantastic Friday, and it's also a Frybread Friday! 😋 Reminding me of my New Mexico decade, I had frybread with green chile. It didn't stand a chance. I'll have your spicy 7-day weather forecast tonight!

#Montana #Billings #NewMexico #Albuquerque #frybread #chile #greenchile #food #foodie #foodporn #photography #sun #Friday #weather

DoomsdaysCW Nov 16

Organic reach: #FoodSovereignty moves to the web

#ColonialContact brought foreign food and disease to tribal nations. Now, a digital generation is reconnecting with tradition.

by Kim Baca April 18, 2018

Excerpt: "When Native Americans were forced to assimilate — confined to reservations and placed in Indian boarding schools — traditional food preparation waned, forgotten in a world of processed foods and modern cooking conveniences. But [#MariahGladstone], who shops at the grocery store, hunts or receives food from family and friends, wants to show how easy, affordable and tasty Indigenous cooking can be. Her recipe for salmon cornmeal cakes, which takes just five steps and five ingredients, appears in a how-to video on her 'Indigikitchen' (Indigenous kitchen) Facebook page, which has more than 1,400 followers.

" 'There is also a lot of interest from Native communities across the country to revitalize their Native foods, not only for the health benefit but for the connection to our ancestors and to recognize our identities as Native people,' she said.

"Some Indigenous chefs are incorporating traditional foods in anti-Thanksgiving pop-up dinners, cooking without any dairy, processed flour or sugar, all ingredients introduced after European contact. This excludes #frybread, often considered a traditional Native food enjoyed at powwows and other Indigenous events. Few realize that frybread was created by Navajos in 1864, during their forced removal, when they had little to eat other than U.S. government rations of white flour, sugar and lard.

"But 'pre-Contact' cooking is more than a foodie trend for people like 13-year-old Maizie White, an #AkwesasneMohawk seventh-grader who writes about Indigenous food and shares recipes on her blog, NativeHearth.com. Her recipes include avocado hominy salsa, spiced squash waffles, wild rice stuffed squash and venison roast and gravy.

" 'It helps #IndigenousFarmers and local people who are growing the food to make a living,' said White, who was invited by #SeanSherman, an #OglalaLakota also known as '#TheSiouxChef,' to cook at the renowned James Beard House in New York City. 'We’re giving back to our community and it is much more healthier and much more economical to cook. It also brings us back to what was here beforehand and respect what was already here.' "

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/E2FRq

#SolarPunkSunday #AnimalProducts #IndigenousFoodSecurity #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #IndigenousFoodSystems #LandBack #Reclaiming #Decolonize #TraditionalDiets #AntiThanksgiving #TraditionalFoods #IndigenousPeoplesMonth

Organic reach: Food sovereignty moves to the web

Colonial contact brought foreign food and disease to tribal nations. Now, a digital generation is reconnecting with tradition.

High Country News

DoomsdaysCW Oct 14

“Weapons of Health Destruction...” How Colonialism Created the Modern Native American Diet

The Impact of Systematic Oppression on Indigenous Cuisine in the United States

#Frybread, sometimes called “#DieBread” or a “weapon of health destruction,” has multiple origin stories, and they all involve oppression and perseverance.

by Andrea Freeman, July 24, 2024

Excerpt: "On the hit television show #ReservationDogs, the only series ever to feature all #Indigenous writers, directors, and main cast members, the Indian Health Center invites rapper Punkin’ Lusty, played by real-life #Mvskoke rapper #StenJoddi, to perform his hit song '#GreasyFrybread.' [A song Dr. Lowry played during today's broadcast.] The occasion is #Diabetes Awareness Month. Lusty raps,

Baby girl looking deadly (Yeah!)
Why she acting all Rezzy (Yeah!)
Hotter than a pan of frybread grease!
Have a Native hittin’ Powwow Beats!
Gotcha Auntie in the kitchen
Like no he didn’t
Got her Gramama’s skillet
Like she ’bout to kill it!

The song solidly locates frybread within Indigenous culture.

Sofkee [a corn drink or soup] on the burner
Hokte Hokte [woman] head turner
Water baking powder
Choppin’ up that white stuff
All purpose flour
Gotta mix it right up
Hit the Rez with the Shits
They eats it right up! Watch the grease pop
Watch her waist drop
She got that blue bird bag [Blue Bird flour comes in a twenty-pound cloth bag and claims to be “The Native American Frybread Secret”]
In her tank top
he got that white powder
All over everything
She gettin’ to bussin’ man
But we ain’t cousins man!
We from the same tribe
But a different clan
She my Rez Bunny
And I’m her Red Man
She love my Tattoos
And my two braids
Frybread money at the Creek Fest get paid! On that!”

Foregrounding this song in the Health Center’s battle against diabetes underscores the other side of frybread’s legacy, also emblazoned on a T-shirt that announces 'Frybread: Creating #Obesity Since 1860.' #Cheyenne and #HudulgeeMuscogee #IndigenousRights activist #SuzanShownHarjo, who vowed to give up frybread as a New Year’s resolution, explains, 'Frybread is emblematic of the #LongTrails from home and freedom to confinement and #rations. It’s the connecting dot between healthy children and obesity, #hypertension, diabetes, #dialysis, #blindness, #amputations and #SlowDeath.' Reflecting on stereotypes that dehumanized Indigenous people to justify #colonization, such as the worn-out trope of Indians drinking 'firewater,' Harjo asserts that frybread love is another way to portray them as 'simple-minded people who salute the little grease bread and get misty-eyed about it.'

"In The #HeartbeatOfWoundedKnee, scholar #DavidTreuer introduces health educator #ChelseyLuger, who is #Ojibwe and #Lakota. Chelsey talks to Indigenous communities about the perils of frybread as part of her efforts to steer their diets in new directions, even in the face of limited food options. 'Sometimes people get defensive, but we are able to make the conversation positive. We say we grew up with it and like it and we say frybread is not power. We say frybread kills our people. It’s that serious. It causes diabetes and heart disease. We have to look at those colonial foods as a kind of enemy.' "

#colonization #Colonialism #Decolonize #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #FoodInsecurity #FoodSovereignty #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Comods #CommodityBoxes #CulturalErasure

“Weapons of Health Destruction…” How Colonialism Created the Modern Native American Diet

Frybread, sometimes called “die bread” or a “weapon of health destruction,” has multiple origin stories, and they all involve oppression and perseverance. In one rendition, the federal government’s…

Literary Hub

DoomsdaysCW Oct 14

I'm listening to a very interesting broadcast with anthropologist Dr. #DavidShaneLowry (#Lumbee) where he talks about the origins of "#FryBread". Not traditional food (which I suspected), but based on rations given to Native Americans after displacement!

Intercultural Insights
October 14, 2025
On Tue from 11:30 am EST to 12:00 pm EST

Listen / download:
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/greasy-frybread--64844925?utm_medium=app&utm_source=widget&utm_campaign=episode-title&deep_link_value=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spreaker.com%2Fepisode%2Fgreasy-frybread--64844925%3Futm_medium%3Dapp%26utm_source%3Dwidget%26utm_campaign%3Depisode-title&af_channel=widget

Wikipedia entry on frybread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frybread

Show info:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-podcasts/returning-the-land/

https://www.wmpg.org/show/tue1130/#

#colonization #Colonialism #CulturalErasure #Starvation #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #BoardingSchools #CommodityBoxes #Commods #Rations #Frybread #FoodInsecurity #WMPGFM #CommunityRadio #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousFoodSovereignty