Description:
We recently visited a bison farm and purchased meat to make pemmican. Pemmican is Native American survival food that sparked a war among fur trade companies. It is high-calorie but low-volume which makes it the perfect food for hunting and traveling. Native Americans used to make pemmican with a variety of game meat including bison, deer, moose, elk, or salmon. The meat is first dried and ground into powder and mixed with rendered animal fat and bone marrow. For my recipe, I use lean bison meat and beef tallow. This is my first time exploring Native American cuisine. Please join me in this Wild West culinary adventure!

Video Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:35 What is pemmican?
1:15 Brief History of Bison / American Buffalo
2:42 Hunting Bison & Historic Uses of Bison
4:38 Native American Women's Key Role In Pemmican Production
5:15 Pemmican Recipe Part A - Making the Pemmican
8:33 The Pemmican Wars
16:51 Pemmican Recipe Part B - Serving & Tasting

References:
1. “Bison Bellows: Indigenous Hunting Practices,” National Park Services, [ Ссылка ].
2. Colpitts, George. Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
3. Klein, Alan M. "THE PLAINS TRUTH: THE IMPACT OF COLONIALISM ON INDIAN WOMEN." Dialectical Anthropology 7, no. 4 (1983): 299-313. Accessed June 15, 2021. [ Ссылка ].
4. Merriam, Willis B. “THE ROLE OF PEMMICAN IN THE CANADIAN NORTHWEST FUR TRADE.“ Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 17 (1955): 34-38. Accessed July 23, 2021.
5. Powell, Eric A. “The Buffalo Chasers” Archaeology, December 2014, [ Ссылка ].
6. Ray, Arthur J. An Illustrated History of Canada’s Native People : I Have Lived Here Since the World Began Fourth edition. Montreal [Quebec]: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.
7. Wentworth, Edward N. "Dried Meat—Early Man's Travel Ration," Agricultural History 30 (January 1956): 2-10.

Image Credit:
1."Beef Bone Marrow" by Evelyn Parham is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
2."wild cranberries" by theogarver is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
3.Bison Photo by Jordan Crawford on Unsplash.
4.Moose photo by Zachery Perry on Unsplash.
5.Deer Photo by Cindie Hansen on Unsplash.
6.Elk Photo by Byron Johnson on Unsplash.
7."Finding the homes of wild salmon" by NASA Goddard Photo and Video is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
8.Bison Video by John Foster Rossi from Pexels.
9."Buffaloe hunting (1844)" by Toronto Public Library Special Collections is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
10."Métis Hunting the Bison / Métis chassant le bison" by BiblioArchives / LibraryArchives is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
11."Ulm Pishkun State Park - Tepee" by roger4336 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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