Awareness of the outside world. American Indian Magazine (Smithsonian): Food Sovereignty, McClellan, 2018. Dated, but I can’t imagine the issues have gone away.
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Fry Bread
Choctaw Kitchen
Moundville Native American Festival
Moundville Archeological Park
October 2026
Topped with honey & powered sugar. A member of the fried dough pantheon: zeppoli, donuts, beignets, and so on.
I heard about fry bread in Stabenow’s Kate Sugak books. “Each signed first edition hardcover sold by the Poisoned Pen will include a recipe card for fry bread, kindly shared by master fry bread maker Joyce White.” Stabenow: Drum roll, please!. This person, perhaps? A Taste of History with Joyce White, although no fry bread recipes turned up in the search box.
A tangential find, also no fry bread, but fascinating. Dana Stabenow: All the links to “The History of Kate Shugak in 22 Objects” 2023, thru book 22.
Another member of the family (waves Hi!) heard of fry bread in Tony Hillerman novels, The Tony Hillerman Portal: fry bread.
What can I say, we are a book family.
IRL fry bread can be a cultural and political symbol, Smithsonian: Frybread, This seemingly simple food is a complicated symbol in Navajo culture, Miller 2008.
Fry Bread, A Native American Family Story, written by Kevin Noble Maillard, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal (Macmillan 2019). Publisher’s website for the book. Author’s website, Kevin Maillard. Illustrator’s website, Juana Martinez-Neal. About the book, Cynsations: Native Voices: Kevin Noble Maillard on Writing Fry Bread.
Onwards!
Katherine
