Yes, it’s that great…trust me!įry Bread: A Native American Family Story is so much more than a story about food.
Now that you know this history, let me tell you about this book that I’ve now included in my list of Top 10 picture books of 2019. Fry bread is important to Native American culture, because it represents the perseverance, and pain the Navajo people went through. Since the Navajos no longer had access to fresh meats, fruits, and vegetables, they used what they had in order to survive. government sent them supplies to make the food that is now known as fry bread. The camps they were put into had meager supplies, so the U.S. The pioneers wanted the land and resources to themselves, so they drove the Navajos out of their homes violently, and, as is said, forced them to walk 300 miles to where they would be held in camps. The Navajo had been forced to move because of the pioneers who came to the southwestern area where the Navajos lived. Frybread was first used in 1864 using the flour, sugar, salt and lard that was given to the Navajo tribe by the United States government when the Navajo, who were living in Arizona, were forced to make the 300 mile journey known as the “Long Walk” and move to Bosque Redondo, in New Mexico, onto land that could not be farmed with their traditional foods, which were vegetables and beans. It is tradition to the Navajo people, who are the largest federally recognized Native American Indian tribe in the United States.
I think in order to truly understand and appreciate the beauty of the book Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story, you must first learn about the complicated history of fry bread.įry bread is a flat dough bread, fried or deep-fried in oil, shortening, or lard. It is a food that was born out of desperation and survival that no one could have predicted it would be the become a touchstone of Native American culture. Of all the foods most commonly associated with Native American culture, fry bread has long been at the center of the table.
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