Americans Try Native American Food For The First Time
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- We asked a couple people who had never tried Native American cuisine to taste a few dishes…and to be honest, each food tasted better than the last.
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In case anyone wants to know a real fact about Native America history(talking to you buzzfeed) from a Native American myself, the only reason Indian tacos exist is because when the government took away our hunting rights, the only thing they left us was canned food, dough, and oil. Which eventually lead to high rates in heart failure, and as mentioned in the video, diabetes, and obesity. It's not an ancient food, nor is it authentic or cultural. Our traditional food is river salmon, acorn soup, dear meat(and other animal meat) and vegetables.
Thanks for this. I wasn't expecting "rez food". I thought to see Three Sisters, Acorn soup, mutton, fish, etc.
THANK YOU. Fry bread IS delicious. Presenting it without presenting the origins and history of it (especially when it is so recent) is highly weird.
THIS comment 👏👏👏👏
The same thing happened to the Aboriginal people of Australia and it has had a lasting impact. They are all dying of heart disease.
👏👏👏👏
Everyone’s a sore loser....hahaha
I as a native American am saddened...that is the flattest looking frybread
Funnily every other tribe teases the Navajo for their flat bread. Then the Navajo are the only ones who teases everyone else's bread. I witnessed this so many times in other comments. I for one am for the fluffiest airy bread I can get my hands on. To each their own lol. XD
Don't worry about that person. They don't understand that Fry bread is different in many nations. Glad to see a Dine.Ahóá!
These people have no idea....also can I just say I fuckin hate whem they call it Indian tacos
phoenix keesie honestly yeah because when my mom makes frybread it looks better than that
Lol my family likes woman who can cook frybread and have a bannock butt
MORE NATIVE REPRESENTATION ON BUZZFEED. Please.
yes!
Totally, we need it
Yes someone needs to do it why ?????not buzzfeed
More cultural appropriation
Yes! But not only Native American. I think buzzfeed should represent more native cultures like aboriginals, Hawaiian natives etc.
“Native American” is such a vague term. There are so many different tribes and this only represents a small group of people.
neena they should've had a specific tribes food
Knux but a lot of those were foods that many different tribes cook. It's not just one tribe.
Miss B well I know that of course because I'm full Native American but they kinda generalized it all as Native American
Knux I am Native too. What I meant was the same food is cooked by many tribes. I am Lummi, Tlingit and Colville and some of that food is the same in all three. Even Alaskin Natives (Tlingit) make them.
damn dawes tribe indians
"Wild rice isn't really rice, it's actually a grass seed"
..... So... like rice?
And here I thought rye, barley and wheat were grass seeds...
I continuously see nasty comments on how those natives don't look like REAL natives. Are they supposed to apologize for not fitting the stereotypes? I'm native and go to an all native american school. Many look white but they're full blood natives. Some are mistaken for being black. My point is you don't have "look the part". A lot of tribes are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT and appear COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Geez.
You betta tell em !!!!!
well im not a native american.. so if im wrong im sorry. But im just thinking that if you were from a tribe that lived down south you would be little more dark than if you are from a tribe that lived up north?
Im european and live in Denmark and we are pale as fu*k but if you take a look on spanish and italian people they are often darker.. Im just guessing its the same thing..
It's kinda like that actually 😄 but not all tribes
Sometimes yes sometimes no. I know some from northern tribes that are pretty dark but I also know some that tare very light. Up in New England if you go to a pow wow mostly the natives are really pale or look african. There's almost no in between
It probably depends on where they grew up also. Like I grew up playing outside most of my life so I have a more darker skin than my little brother who liked staying inside all day is more paler than I was/am at the age... Even though we're full apache. And my best friend is very pale also, but she's Navajo. So it sometimes depends on how much time you spend outside, and the tribe your from. Also it can just be that every person is made differently.
I'm Navajo and the fact they dig it. I'm happier then ever!!! frybread power!!
Arland F. I’m navajo too and In my family, our favorites are mutton, stew, and frybread
I am native Māori from new Zealand and we have frybread, rewana bread with our hangi that are cooked in the ground
Lakotas and dakotas and nakotas frybread is wayyy fluffier lmao 😂
It’s better than American food! :3
@@aunaxo mine is rib green chili and blood sausage mmmmm
as a certified Canadian native American, I'm am offended by the flatness of that frybread
Bruh u just took someone elses comment
@@ghul1736 bruh more than 1 person is allowed to have the same opinion
Same brother
Speed paint Lily oh cool, someone else was up late watching old obscure videos. Thick Frybread or get out.
D Son there’s different kinds of fry bread some are sweet some are fluffy some are flat js I’m just wondering where tf the red & green chili is
When you're from Canada and native but the only thing your family makes is bannock. 😂😂
ItsLoyals no wild meat?? Moose meat, rabbit, geese, fish.. I'm a native Canadian also. Status "Indian"
I eat those yea like now I'm eating dry moose meat but rabbits I only have them in late winter
I know right? lol
ItsLoyals Just slap some taco stuffings on top and BAM Indian taco
Shelby i think he meant the other things they are talking about lol
I make Bannock ( Fried bread ) and use Raspberry/Strawberry jam powdered sugar and a cut of icecream on the side ...My family also makes moose and deer jerky
Right! I love how you said "Bannock" instead of Indian Fry bread. Indian is not the correct term!!! It's a racist remark! Being called an "Indian" when you're native is the equivalent of the N word. So many terrible and mean stereotypes go with that word (Injun welfare and the like).
I'm Metis French Native I grew up with Native and White people theres racist remarks from both side ..It doesn't bother me Life too short to worry about them
Fearless Ghost
So your Metis and Asian
freakyflow augh deer jerky is the best
freakyflow sounds heavenly
as long as its food, ill try it. i don't discriminate
yass literally me
What about dog? It's food in Asia.
Yup that's what I say.
+Daniel Mezquita Best...comment....ever.
+Daniel Mezquita rocky mountain oysters?
Who the hell made the frybread, god damn don't know how to make it fluffy.
Also, look like a god damn chip, embarssing.
MY FRYBREAD BRIGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD AND THEY’RE LIKE ITS BETTER THAN YOURS I COULD TEACH YA BUT I HAVE TO CHARGE 👌👌ayyye i’m navajo
Chippewa?
Lol right ?!?!
That crunchy sound made my nerves on edge lol
Daily Blogger how is it that the mayas and aztecs had made tortillas 1000 years before the 1300’s, they have writtings in pyramids and on stone in hidalgo mexico
"actual Native American"
*has only 1/60th Cherokee blood in them*
I bet
+Melanie Rizzo Actually the guy is 50% Native. He's also 50% white....
you don't know how or where they were raised
Where or how they were raised has nothing to do with genetics. That's personality
+vampiregal34 even if only one of your grandparents was native American and you grew up with that culture then you know it inside and out, genetics is a roll of dice, they could be way more native American than their full siblings
Native American food is great
*amazing
I never tried it
yeah
Food is great.
+Jesse Spika that sounds like all lives matter
My family is native american and it seems a tad weird to see that they call it frybread taco because we call it indian taco
TRASH AF HELP KIDS ikr!
In Saskatchewan Canada we call them bannock tacos. We also use bannock or fry bread for burgers and stuff. On carry the kettle the res I am from people have bannock taco sales to raise money for weddings and stuff normally they go for about 8 bucks and you can make a good 3-4K a day doing that
TRASH AF HELP KIDS why the heck would you call it an Indian taco if you’re Native American? Native Americans are native to America and Indians are native to INDIA. How could you get it mixed up if you’re a native yourself?
We've been called "Indians" for hundreds of years. We're used to calling ourselves that now. "Native Americans" is also wrong, technically speaking. The only 'right' thing to call us is the names of our actual tribes-- Anishinaabe, Lakota, etc. And since people don't bother to learn our names, "Indian" has become sort of acceptable, since that's what we've been called. The word "Indian" is part of our cultural identity, and individual native people can choose to reject or embrace that word-- but it's what our ancestors and our parents were called, it's what we're sometimes called, so it makes sense that we use it sometimes. That's why.
But one of them did call it an Indian taco...
There should be a video for Diné food. Navajo tacos, mutton sandwich, blue corn mush, kneel down bread, dumpling stew, rabbit, steam corn, navajo tea, prairie dog, blood sausage, achíí, piñons. Yéégo Diné bichíyáán!
Chris THEY NEED THAT SO MUCH! Make them try sheep head too!
Knux HAHA TRUE!
That sounds so Good! Blue Corn Mush!
I would love that video so much
Chris yes yes yes yes yess
Yaayy!! I've always wanted our native dishes to be tried out more!!
Same
we share a common trait. i just dont know what it is yet.
Fr
Fry bread!
same
"If this is what's hiding within Native culture, then I can't imagine what else is waiting for us"
That's a colonizer line right there
XD
Ouch.
Massive burn 😂
🤣🤣🤣
Beat me to this comment
Next video Americans try North Korea food
You should know that THIS native girl is going for some Korean bbq right now haha
+Will sniff It's basically the same as South Korean food.
+Will sniff I don't think they want to eat cats and dogs :/.
well from what i can tell from your picture and your words, you are indeed on crack
I'd rather them do South Korean because North Korea is a PRETTY bad place.
or just have them do korean food
I'm from new Mexico and always had Navajo food and I loved it my favorite thing was fry bread with honey
I love that Keith said basically nothing, and just ate, enjoying his food the entire time
i was waiting for a long time for them to try an indian taco
She was so annoying.
Haha same
Native American taco* lol. I know what you meant 😂
+Jose Lopez lol that's what we call it where I live
+Jose Lopez Actually Im native American full blooded and It's actually called an Indian Taco
To all saying the fry bread looks flat, I agree, but there is a reason. There exist many different recipes for making fry bread, and these methods vary wildly from region to region. Diné fry bread is very different from Ojibwe fry bread and so on. I've seen recipes where they use baking soda/powder, and ones where they used yeast. I've seen the dough stretched into disks with a hole in the middle, and I've seen them rolled out and cut into shapes. I've seen them fried, and I've seen them baked (ugh I know). This is likely one of the lesser used versions most of us are unfamiliar with (thank Creator).
Brittani Snyder yeah, this one was probably baking soda. Not my favorite.
You gotta think about climate and humidity too, cause I'm from Arizona and then worked in Louisiana, but when we made frybread out here, it tasted way different, even though we brought the same ingredients from Az but yeah, different tribes do things differently obviously.
I’m from northern Minnesota so I’m used to the super puffy Ojibwe fry bread, was confused with how flat it was till I saw your comment lol
@@BigBreakfast25 No .. this was flat because someone didn't know how to make it lol. I honestly don't think any Nation makes their bread this flat.😅
The majority of us Natives who have visited other Nations know that everyone makes their frybread different, even from family to family it's different. This however is not how anyone has made it which is why so many of us Natives have commented about the flatness.😅😄It looked like a cracker or flatbread.
I call the “Indian taco” a Navajo taco . Feels more comfortable :)
Maddy L I call it Lakota Taco.
Yep, but a real Navajo taco is a bit bigger than usual.
Yup me too
Yes I understand there different native tacos sorry for my comment
What about "Navataco"? :]
Cultures*. We're not a single homogenized group. We're many different nations with different ways of doing things, including foods. Wild Rice is from the Great Lakes region if I'm not mistaken. Indian Tacos ( otherwise known as Navajo Tacos ) come from the south west. Three Sisters Soup is from the eastern woodlands. At some point you should try Akutaq ( A.K.A. Eskimo ice cream, Alaska / Arctic circle), Pemmican ( Northern Cree ), Swamp Cabbage ( a.k.a. Hearts of Palm, Seminole ), Casava / Yucca bread ( Taino, Caribbean ).
Captain Chupacabra what about wojapi?
I have screenshot this comment for future reference and I will pray to thank you before I eat my meal when I can find these dishes. Any other comments and additional information you would like to grace us with, I will be taking a screenshot and looking for those dishes as well. Bless you kind soul, bless you.
Captain Chupacabra I was hoping someone would point this out.
Captain Chupacabra, thank you for the info! I'm not from the USA, so I know nothing about native american many cultures (which is sad). I just hope I can find (at least some of) those recipes to try them at home!
Many tribes all over the us make Indian tacos
Wish there was a place to get native american food :(
+Dominque S. C. Go to New Mexico :)
go to Zwolle,Louisiana and get some hot tamales
Visit a native event trust me there always great food at native events especially powwows!
Yea I have there amazing!!!
+SquidneyAf Or Oklahoma.
Native guy born in Albuquerque. I was hoping they'd get to try green chile, it goes with every thing!! For any one who wants to taste fry bread...flour, baking soda, water with a dash of salt along with hot cooking oil. Roll out the dough to a large pan cake size, put in hot oil till golden brown.(look on line for ingredient amounts, so easy.) Try it with honey. OR the next time a Native Pow Wow is close to your town hit it up, tons of culture and your sure to get a great tasting fry bread taco. (other wise known as a buffalo taco.) Enjoy.
Thank you for the recipe! Will try!
@@sophiaschier-hanson4163 Nice!
@@sophiaschier-hanson4163 Sophia, give it a go. When cooked in oil for a fast minute the crust on the bread is crispy. So good.
As a Native American I love that they loved our food and that some of them knew the story of the 3 sisters.
Ps. I love BuzzFeed
Wish I can try some
"what do you want from me?" ahhh i love you keith ahaha
+sky z - I want him to chew with his mouth closed. Open mouth eaters are revolting.
Rhiannon K lol WTVR
white person here and dying with laughter at people in this video wondering why native Americans haven't shared things.....lmao like are you serious?
+ItsNotLauren Like yea so serious
+ItsNotLauren Everyone's already heard of all this stuff, they didn't invent it.
+Raúl Hernandez Sure Raúl, sure.
+ItsNotLauren lmao
because when they shared with us, we all got smallpox
Navajo/Indian tacos are my favorite! Needs more toppings through. Looks like a sorry one Ah ah
Haha yea, the frybread looks like it's lacking
Just call them Indian tacos, since literally every native knows about it
+sweetie eh Navajos make it best 😂
+L3g3nDk1ll34 aoo' ei shił ya'ateeh!
My grandma's frybread is legendary.
if she said “drunk food” ima need you to take that back sis.
Calm the hell down. It’s not exactly a cultural food. It’s made with literal pig fat and flour
@@tulleycrowfoot what the hell are you even talking about
@@tulleycrowfoot Racist spotted
@@tinfoil6626 I'm navajo.... I know how to make frybread. this food didn't come to us from the mountains as a gift from the creator. we made it using flour, pigf at, and water cause that's what white people gave us when they put us on concentration camps. it's okay if she calls it drunk food cause it looks and taste like it
What do u mean take it back? Take what back? Shes saying that if shes drunk, thats something she would eat
I would love to see more buzzed videos about native american culture. It makes me so happy.
Hey guys, I'm bring this to coachella
+Love The Soul lmao
+Love The Soul lmao
+Love The Soul lmao
+Love The Soul lmao
+Love The Soul lmao
I love how in the end, Zach is trying to make valid points while Keith is just there eating with such intensity XD
As an asian Indian, this is weird to be hearing them call themselves indian, also knowing that it is due to a glitch in history where they were mistaken for US
B Sarangi they don't look native 100%
B Sarangi I’m Native American and I hate t when people call us Indians because we’re not Indians. Indians are from India. We are native Americans the people native to America. It makes me so mad to hear people get it mixed up because it’s so simple to understand.
Alexandrea Sanders Right? I'm so glad to know a Native American agrees because I thought I might come across as insensitive to y'all
The decision was not their's. They didn't call themselves Indians (and many do not do this now) until Europeans arrived and being ignorant enough to force this name on them.
I'm Asian Indian - GET OVER IT. If they would rather be called Indian than to have the word 'American' in their name with everything considered, that's totally fine.
FRYYYYYYYYYBEAAAAAAAAD YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
+Yenawa ?
YES
+Micah Jones what's up name buddy?
+XxMICAHwasHERExX his name is from fallout 4/etc.
IF your talking to fat man, a fat man is a gun in fallout 4/etc...
That fry bread wasn't cooked right
Chloe Ahtone right! And who calls it an "Indian Taco"😂
It depends on the region I've noticed.
+Leilani Yazzie I live in New Mexico and I work at a New Mexican restaurant and the fry bread is on our menu as an Indian taco. Some ppl here also call it a Navajo taco, but either way is cool and no one gets insulted.
C-locbta what part of New Mexico?
+Leilani Yazzie Albuquerque duh lol jk
Half Navajo, my gran almost exclusively made beans and cornbread. Never had any of these, closest would be skillet bread with mosquite flour. Lots of corn and squash in the diet, but we typically ate it fresh, grilled (my dad is a grilling monster) or in soup. I like that Buzzfeed promotes unique food and culture, but their food always looks kinda fancy to me. All visually appealing. My gran's cooking was simple, plain looking, but delicious.
+Jammy Jamster Wow that sounds just like what my grandparents and great aunts and uncles would make for family gatherings and stuff. We aren't Navajo though, so it's interesting to see that our foods are so similar.
+Jammy Jamster Out here in Tucson AZ every year you can haul your mesquite beans in for grinding at a bunch of places; mesquite flour is amazing, though you have to gather the beans from the trees while they're dry but before they fall (otherwise you get bugs in them.)
Lydia M Aside from the Navajo on my dads side, my family is your average southern folk, and my ma makes essentially the same thing. And chili. Chili for days.
YsabetJustYsabet Yea, we have mesquite trees aaaall over our land out here in Texas, but they barely grow into trees here. I've heard mesquite flour is kinda popular in Arizona, though? I know that if you order the flour online it primarily comes from there.
Jammy Jamster Oh cool, my family is southern too. We usually just have traditional southern food, with frybread and bean bread. We used to have kanuchi all the time too, but most of the people who knew how to make it are too old now :/ We're part of the TINY Cherokee community left in Tennessee.
She:kon I'm Native American and my favorite food here on the Rez is:
Indian tacos
corn soup
hangover soup
smoked sturgeon
strawberry drink
fried bread
and if anybody knows what hangover soup is reply!! I hope I'm not the only one.
Destiny Lazore ayyyeee I love hangover soup
Omg, hangover soup is theeee best!!!
Ayyyeeee hangover soup is my favorite enit on the Rez everybody is cousin glad to be Native American 😂😂
Destiny Lazore I love it!! Always has been my favourite growing up, and is still my favourite to this day! 😋
Right here 🙋🏽🙋🏽
No grape dumplings? What a shame. Also, that fry bread looks like a chalupa shell from Taco Bell. It doesn't look like what I am used to...
I was thinking the same about the frybread. Mine is thicker and not as crunchy.
my grandma is native and the frybread she makes looks a lot different than what they ate. The frybread they ate doesnt really look authentic
+Jenn Janson to me it looked like the dough was over stirred, or it was over cooked, or a mix of both...
Ooh, what are grape dumplings?!
you clearly are not native American because that fry bread in the video is definitely the real thing
do egyptian food next!!
That be cool.!
yesss!!
Yes yes!!👏
I'm up for that!
Yes!!
Wow no cornbread, fish dishes, or acorn bread?? Really...but yes three sister stew and Indian tacos. Also keep in my not all tribes have adopted the foods three sisters stew is a eastern and southern tribes tradition not with tribes like the Sioux or Pone out in the great plains.
i was wondering the same thing lol
you cant forget meat pie!!! I cant believe they left that out.
that's french Canadian
dante bigguy what's French Canadian?
+nativenchristian What's French? What's Canadian? its a Canadian who speaks French as their main language.
I WANT NATIVE INFLUENCE IN AMURCA LIKE DAFUQ? Is yall home yall deserve to be welcome.
Thanks
Stfu
R.I.P ramadan people...😢😢
RIGHT!!?
Imagine of for everyday of Ramadan buzzfedd just put out a bunch of videos about food.
Omggg that would of been a disaaaster😂
I know right
ikr
2:07 Native culture has not "crossed over" into "American culture" because we were forced to practice "American culture" and suppress our beliefs, rituals, clothing, etc. Hence one of the many many many reasons were in reservations. I could go on and on with an endless list but it's 1am and I'd be an internet troll.
I really want to pull him aside and just say, "Dude, no. Just ... no. Go Google 'kill the Indian, save the man' and get back to us on that." I don't want to be a 'white savior' type, but that literally made me cringe.
Cali Mattison yeah screw those pure english bastards
I recently learned about how the Europeans forced the children into boarding schools and stripped them away from their cultures and families. It was so sad.
"I feel like this is what you eat when you got your life together" 😂
Beans flour coffee was given to us in concentration camp when they took us off of our reservation we have to learn to cook with these items
Beans not so much, maybe the modern one but flour and coffee was as foreign to us as Christianity at the time
they werent concentration camps
*THREE SISTER!?* this native American is proud they brought the goods in!
the guy with the Denim jacket and glasses is so historically accurate. Yay!!!
Jessica O that's zach
As a native american myself.. LCO Ojibwe. i think im speaking on half of all Native Americans.. that the frybread does not look right. you don't put chili. you but regular ground beef with seasoning. and it's called an Indian Taco. and this could just be me. but the native guy Shane seems a lot more informed than the native girl Candace. and honestly that all looks like the white version of OUR dishes.
Yeah I was thinking the same a little
+nativenchristian right, I knew it wasn't just me and a couple others lol
Marissa Jade yes. the frybread is to thin and crunchy.
***** Frybread isn't one of our ancestors original foods, but it is a tradition food in our modern era. It's not that healthy and it should only be eaten once in a while. At the same time we have different foods from different tribes like cornbread and three sisters soup are found in the eastern and southeastern tribes.
I'm from LCO too!! :D +Alex Saunders I think we started eating frybread because it was really cheap to make and natives were very poor. Especially during the time where we were being moved to reservations. I agree that the bread was on the flatter side, but that isn't very uncommon to many people out west. I know in my family we liked to make ours fluffy. :)
I showed this to my grandma and she was like “why is the fry bread so flat?”
Native American food is incredibly diverse, as the people are. To sum it up under one umbrella is fine, but it should also be recognized that there are a multitude of groups who used to-and continue to- eat differently based on location.
+CiderDivider The same could be said about Chinese food. Although I am not Chinese, I understand why some people see how it's pathetic that in America, we consider the food of a country that is larger in square miles than America to be pretty much homogenous under the umbrella of "Chinese food."
Not only do we put all of that food under that same umbrella, but we also rarely venture out of eating the traditional Americanized Chinese dishes (or Chinese dishes acceptable to the American palette) such as orange chicken, chow mein, egg rolls, chop suey, etc.
To be honest though, I don't care if when we talk about Chinese food, we just call the food for all regions of it as "Chinese food." It doesn't make sense to go into more details in a layman conversation. That being said, it'd be nice for people to be aware of the fact that there is an incredibly diverse range of dishes for "Chinese food" due to its extensive history and huge geographical differences in the various regions.
The same could be said for "Native American food." It's fine to call it just that in a normal conversation, but do be aware that there is a huge array of different types of Native American food due to cultural/geographical differences in the Americas.
To the person that wishes there was a place to get Native American food, there is it is called the reservations. And the reason Native American food is not out were anyone can get it, is because of the government.
Yeah. Indian Tacos weren't eaten for hundreds of years, until the Natives were put on reservations and stuff.
That’s a lie you can get indigenous American food from The Mexicans, Jamaican, Haitian restaurants and any other nationality of The America’s, they All indigenous to the America’s.
@@ALYoungFuture13 no you can't at least not authentic traditional or even rez food
The try guys should try a Native American sweat lodge.
+michael more LMAO
+Sugarmoon Aki omg yes! Lol
they would probably pass out right when they throw water on the hot rocks lol
+michael more haha! that would be hilarious...
omg yes
"Wild rice is not actually rice it is a grass seed."
I want to know what he thinks 'rice' is and how it's different from wild rice.
Its grass seed
Actually wild rice is way better for the kidneys and improved eye sight. It did mine. I want it badly. My body loves my ancestors foods.
When ever I go away from it. My body doesn't like it.
Tbh it didn't occur to me until I clicked this video that there was such a thing as Native American Food. I wish their culture was more prominent in the US
+ILoveStemi (Aria) Unfortunately the goverment tried very hard to wipe us out and when they couldn't "kill the man" they try to "save the man and kill the Indian" so it's hard to share our culture with other people when many of use don't even know as much as we should about our own culture. I have Uncles that were stolen from my Grandma and put in residential homes were terrible things happened to them. They would be beat if they spoke in their Native tongue so that led to my 3 Uncles and countless other children to lose their language. My Grandma was so scared by what happened that she stopped teaching her other children (including my mom) our Native tongue. Now here I am and I can't speak my language nor do most of my cousins unless they learned it later in life or they learned it from their other parent. Also the language wasn't allowed to develop because it was so heavily wiped out so now a lot of tribes simply don't have words for a lot of modern things which makes it difficult to use it.
Dani P This right here is exactly why it's so difficult for me to sit through a US History lesson. "Our founding fathers" are constantly praised for their contributions and high positions when they massacred so many people to get there. And I can empathize with you. So many people feel lost and want to know their cultures and can't because of ethnic cleansing and in my opinion that's one of the worst things about America. I'm so sorry this happened to your Uncles and so many others
Oh your missing out they sell some good Native American food at powwows. You should definitely go to one!
Breylen Kester I totally would if I could find one! Lol I'll most definitely find a place that sells Native American food this summer
when people say they're 1/16th native american.... lol
+Benny Ly that's like one percent or not a native American the percentage suppose to be over 50 or 60
+Dionte Burch actually it's ~6% (6.25%) to be exact.
I am lol
+Dionte Burch my DNA says I'm 75.5% Native American but I'm a Mexican who grew up in the US so I'm actually American, in the end it's all a big mess
I hate it! especially when they find out you're Native American. they end up saying, "my great great grandmother was a Cherokee princess" 😂
Where my native’s that like meat pies at? Ayyyyyyy😂
🤤🤤🤤
Maria Hernandez ayyyyyeeeee
😂😂
OMG YAAAAS
*_ＹＥＳ_*
I am part native American on both parents sides, but we never talk about it so this video has made my day.
Keith does bring up a valid question. 0:39
+Get Crafty Crafty It's because westerners eat mostly processed foods with little fiber, this has a negative affect on the GI system :)
I've lost count of how many times I've eaten Wild Rice Salad honestly. It's my favorite thing ever. Where my Cherokee folks at? ✋🙌
Except we didn't have wild rice. We do have wild leeks/ramps...heh heh.
👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼
Lenape Nation over here 🙌🏽
That wild rice looks goooood
I'm not Cherokee but in Mohawk She:kon Jasmine. What is your REAL name if you know what I mean? Mine is Teiorahkwathe and it means she brings the sun.
The “Fry bread tacos” are actually called Navajo Tacos. They’re so DELICIOUS 🤤 I love them!
That might be one mane for them, but they are made in many different places, for instance the Ojibwe version is not called a Navajo Taco
Like Benz OK said they have many different names, coast Salish just call ‘‘em Indian tacos although they’re called so’em else where you’re from many tribes have different names and ways of preparing them
"I'm honored to be eating this deliciousness." that's so sweet of her. my grandmother's and ancestors took pride in making their huge families and small, meals. this was a daily thing, not these foods cause we obviously have other dishes as well ,but a huge meal a day is average forms native American family.
the frybread taco looks like what we call a "gordita" in mexico.
ikr!
yes!
+Azul C. Hernández Remember Mexicans are just Natives (Aztecs) with Spain. This is your real ancestral food, modernized anyway.
+Azul C. Hernández In Sweden we got something similar, called Langos. I don't know where it hearths from, but I´m convinced it's not a swedish thing to begin with. Topings are a bit diffrent though.
Frybreads usually vary from family to family. Making them isn't as easy as you think so the technique is usually passed to a younger family member. The result is different textures and thickness. But frybread is like sex and pizza, even if it's bad it's still good.
This makes me want to put up a video on how to make fry bread... Wonder how many ppl would be interested.?..
Do it.
+Debera Miles I'd like to know. I want to try some frybread.
Do it, it'd be nice to share culture with others. I'd also love to see other people's ways of making it.
Should of had mutton stew or "Navajo style" mutton with fry bread and black coffee. (By Navajo style I mean the way they cook the meat) but that's a staple food in Gallup New Mexico which is in the middle of the Navajo reservation.
It's all about fry bread with powdered sugar and honey
I had a Native American woman stay in my house a few years ago and she made fry bread every day!
as a navajo native , the cringe was real when Candice called herself "indian" instead of native american.
Najah Qamar yup the cringe was real and I'm white-native American most Native American tho #NoDapl
Hi. I have a question to that comment!! Wondered about the "Indian" reference too, but how do y'all feel on calling yourselves "Americans" when that was a term whites or the Europeans that came over here called themselves for themselves? It seems to me that was an identity that they made up as well, not what Natives called themselves back then, if that makes any sense to you...sorry. If you can't answer that's fine...
zani pooh most tribes go by their tribal name but when off the reservation there's a mix between using the tribal name, "Native American", and the taboo "Indian".
Jackson Catlett Who are you talking to?
Najah Qamar
White natives, I'm Native American, true blood, I'm an Indian, true
No blue corn mush? No achíí? No deer jerky? 🤦🏽♀️
Kalisha Anderson sheep head an ribs lol for real foreal
Buffalo jerky is so good!
Fam, Dine people are not the only tribe 😂
No blue corn? No Kínaaldá cake? No cat fish with ceder ash? No Mutton or Acheé', No pikii bread? Kneel-down bread? Zuni bred, Acoma bread? Could go on
For the longest time I used to think my grandma was saying Neil diamond bread! Kinaalda cake is so good! And blue corn mush! The lady I worked with at the one native center used to bring that for her son and he hated it and I always volunteered to eat his, she was of the 3 who were also Navajo.
+Paranoid How long did you want the video to be?
no meat pies. o there missing parts of life.
Reminds me a lot of Mexican food actually. In Mexico they really successfully combined native-American cuisine with the western cuisine that was introduced when the spaniards came. They're really proud of their food and the roots it came from - from the cacao they use in their Mole to the purple corn tortillas (well, corn in pretty much anything).
I never would have thought Candace is Native American but hey I don't look native either so...
+Heleyna Knowles You do.
No she looks more Asian In my opinion
SAAAAMMMME!!!😂 And people always think I'm Asian
+tish Luke same!
+Bethany Michelle sammmeeeeee
Thank you so much for making this video BuzzFeed, represent! Other Navajo foods also include mutton soup and blue corn mush which we eat on a weekly basis.
Native American & PROUD!
As a Native American I find this hilarious , cuz I eat like 2 of these.
The 3 sisters is Chickasaw (my tribe)
same
which two so I can find ?
I'm Japanese, Italian, and Spanish and I eat all of this 😂
Really? I eat all of these haha and you can find these at a museum for Indian artifact and art's cafe in my city. It's amazing
Indian tacos. Possibly my favorite Native American food.
I'm American (navajo) and European American ( Irish,English, polish) I'm glad more information is surfacing about Americans. I was only taught European American history in schools like about European American presidents such as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. There is much to learn and share about American culture. European American culture is to new and is mostly surrounded with war, murder, crime.etc. So kind of hard to be proud of that. I'm learning more and more everyday about my American culture.
Native American frybread is different between each tribe and how the "taco" is fixed.
I'm Cherokee and Pawnee and grew up eating fry bread and three sisters soup. I honestly though they where "normal" everyday foods everyone ate. I never new how much of my childhood was native American culture I just thought was normal.
Diane Zelaya nice I'm ogalala
Fellow natives in the comments what tribe are you? Kiowa here!
navajo
+Micheal Style navajo and western shoshone. have a couple vids about being native on my channel :)
Seneca!
+Micheal Style I'm quarter, my grandma is a mohawk :)
métis
I’m full Navajo! I love this! I love you guys! ❤️ I love Navajo tacos!!!!! And fried bread!!
They said " there needs to be more native American food in America " why don't you just go to New Mexico we have a lot of native American food
Amen, sister.
Angel Rose Or Oklahoma.
Omg rlly?? Are there natives living down in Mexico?
Drxzzy Drxzzy Ya clod it's NEW Mexico. 😂😂
o know right yet people need to realize potatos and corn and everything native to the Americas is antive american food. Deer, elk, turkey, the fish in the area.. the plants...
This tastes like something someone with their life together would eat XD
Indian tacos are NOT a traditional food... so the woman towards the end of the video saying that this food isn't "some ancient food that we are, like, reincarnating right now" is totally right - because it NEVER WAS an ancient traditional food!
Frybread was invented when our people were put on reservations and given government commodities like white sugar, processed oils, and white flour. Frybread was what they made with these toxic ingredients that the government provided for them.
Over here in the West we have salmon and other fish, deer, elk, other game, berries, roots, mushrooms, acorns, seaweed, and mussels, among many other things. I'm not an expert on the foods from other tribes in the Midwest and East, but I know frybread sure isn't traditional to ANY tribe.
This video just shows how uneducated even some "actual Native Americans" are about our cultural foods.
If you take anything away from what I just wrote, let it be this: Indian tacos aren't a traditional Native American fooooood!!!!!!
With all due respect, ma'am/sir, I must remind you that we have never even met in person. I don't know anything about you and your life and you don't know anything about mine, but I can assure you that I was not trying to hurt anyone's feelings or play the victim - I was only trying to tell the truth about this aspect in our culture. So I'm sorry if I offended you, and although your advice is not bad, I must confess that it does not exactly apply to myself, as I try to make points like this in a polite manner and always work on improving my lot in life. Sorry for the long response.
+2007 Pete Wentz +Brandan Bmc I find it interesting how your comments were removed as "spam." Unfortunately I am unable to restore them for some reason... But thank you for your comments. And yes, the government gave commodities to reservations often because they banned or made it impossible for the tribes to gather food in the traditional way. They basically wanted to erase our culture (boarding schools, massacres, etc.). We are still being devastated by the effects of disregarding the wellness of Native people where I live. There have been fish kills because of it, and mostly the damage is caused by the several dams on the Klamath. It just makes me inexplicably sad to think about our River being killed like this. My great uncle went to Congress to fight for it not too long ago when he was chairman but the corporations are still profiting off their dams. Hopefully, though, I think that some of the dams will be removed in the next ten years.
yes they are... they're Navajo...
For anyone interested, Well for Culture has lots of good stuff about Native health and wellness and even a post about frybread: wellforculture.squarespace.com/frybread
+JKflipflop Stop being so easily triggered whenever someone brings up cultural history in order to educate.
They should have tried blue corn mush ... yummm
The fry bread wasnt cooked right
I feel like everyone in the comments are forgetting that Mexicans are Native Americans too... And just because certain people don't "look" like what you think a Native American should look like (which is a really dangerous and ignorant assumption to make), doesn't mean that they're not.
Agree!
+Chloe Hunter mexicans are not native americans. Mexico was not a country and Mexican implies you are from that country. Native american implies your family lived there before the colonialists came over. Very few in central/south america are actually native american it is a very small number.
+RoyalGaming mexicano are native we are brown & did not come from another continent on boat, all brown insidious people from north & south america are natives.. & besides mexico owned more than half of the us once...study your history...
+emberoze indigenous
At no time in history has Mexico owned more than half of the U.S.
I think you're the wrong person to be telling people to study up on their history.
I am native American
same I'm half Native American. I get it from my mom's side.
Me too.
+AALIYAH DIAZ my 0.00000000001% native American blood seeks revenge
I'm lakota Sioux
why did you let the white man steal your land?
I know how to make frybread tacos! Thank God my native buddies taught me how to make the dough for the bread because, during cold wonter nights, frybread tacos helped keep me going (gave me actial energy to use)
I was disappointed that there was no mutton... :/
Lmao I was waiting for that too😂😂
right
Ikr 🌚
I feel lime I need to connect more with my roots
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Are you from Kitchenistan ?
Oh, I thought because your name was Lemon, you were just making citrus puns.
Same I'm part Cherokee and I don't know lots and my mum only knows a little
+Lemon Gerard I am just gonna comment on your name, I was listening to hesitant alien earlier
I wanna try that last one 😍
I'm Native American and it's actually really good ❤️❤️
+SimplyAnna 17
That last dish was the best looking fry bread I have ever seen in a long time.
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+SalmonberryTeaGameFilmHD Really?? To me, the fry bread used for the tacos looked flat. It was as if someone added too much baking powder and not enough flour without kneading it right.
+JadesOfficial . Go to a local powwow, you can usually find out where at local board postings on campus, library and community centers. You would be able to find all kinds of food venders local to your area. maybe even from out of state..
Really late but Potawatomi tribe here! 😉✨
Bozho n'nikan niij
This is what you eat when you have your life together lol
+Adrienne Jackson And who has their lives together as a group more than the Native Americans?
The reason why Native American food tastes like Hispanic food is because Hispanic culture is a mixture of both colonial Spanish culture and the Native American culture of the natives who lived there (while some Hispanic countries in the Caribbean and the eastern border of Central and South America were influenced also by the African slave trade). Hispanic dishes contain rice, beans, corn, etc. because that's what is found in the ground of Hispanic regions. Also, Native American dishes tastes like black cuisine because for a long time, black slaves were only given a small portion of the crops that their masters owned. Even after slavery, many black people found themselves working for their former masters because they didn't have anywhere else to go, and their former masters would give them a piece of land to grow their own crops on, so the former slaves would rely on crops like corn, rice, wheat, etc. that grew out of the ground.
That Frybread is too flat and hard, you need a fresh, fluffy one
+KristineValencia That's exactly what I was thinking. It looked horrible! I went to a rodeo that had fry bread like that once. They don't know what they're missing out on!
IKR and where the hell is the red chilli popover where I live there are at least 2-3 different stands the best is where the meat is so tender it's falls apart and where's the chumuth burro? made with mesquite wood is the best the flavor is awesome.
Yea honestly I mean whenever I make fry bread I open it up and put the taco stuff inside👌🏾
all tribes n natives in diff areas make frybread different.
Lol true😂
Goof to see y'all enjoy my cultural food. I've always thought it a shame nobody has shared this. We see only other cultural foods talked about or shared on cooking shows. It can't be erased and shouldn't be erased.
I agree most food from other cultures we see are actually from asian or south america but the native food who was here before us are widely unknown like even for people who don't know much indian food can think of curry and vietnamese good like pho but for indian pretty none of the dish come to mind.
Please buzz feed do people try nigerian food so Nigerians can all their tribes!! I'm loving the native Americans showing their pride in the comment section !!!
Yum! Nigerian food would be great to see!!
What Nigerian food?
Buzzfeed! How about iñupiaq food? Its pretty interesting. I have bowhead whale, seal, caribou, goose, duck, and im not sure what else. I think itd be a good idea because pretty much no one knows about their(also my) culture.
YASS!
Honestly they should do just Alaskan Native food in general!! It's all very much of the land
gross
hmm why is that not under a "native american food" category to u what do u think they are..
No, you shouldn't eat seals or whales because they are almost going extinct