Foods

My name is Caleb Takes Horse a member of the Crow and Kenaitze tribes. For me, native “soul food” can be any recipe that is passed down from generation to generation, usually consisting of the most meager ingredients and made to feed vast quantities of people for little money. For years, Native Americans lived off the land until the introduction of modern foods by the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the United States government. These include but are not limited to; dry macaroni products, flour, yeast, sugar, salt and commodity cheese. Attempts to integrate the Indians into white society gave them large bags of flour, baking powder or yeast, salt, sugar, and lard which were all usually past their prime. With these, bread was created but with no ovens to bake it in, the bread was fried and a new food source was introduced.