Subj : Chicken jerky
To   : DALE SHIPP
From : JIM WELLER
Date : Sat Jul 23 2022 00:02:00

-=> Quoting Dale Shipp to Jim Weller <=-

 JW> Dene ... jerky without salt, just a bit of smoke ..."dry meat"

 JW> my grandkids love to claim that it is part of their culture
 JW> even though they are very much city girls.
 
 DS> "you can take a girl out of the country but you can't take the
 DS> country out of a girl"

They are both very proud of their Native heritage. Lexi's father
identifies as Inuvialuit (western Inuit) so she does too but truth
be told her father is a mixture of Inuvialuit, Gwich'in Dene
(Kutchin Indian), Scottish and Metis (so probably French and
Alberta Cree) while my step daughter is half Danish, and a quarter
each English and German on her dad's side and 3/4 French, 1/8 each
Scottish and Cree on her mom's side (Roslind's contribution).
She happily eats whale meat, Mukluk, raw frozen arctic char and
unseasoned dry meat when presented with it just to prove a point.

And she loves her middle name (which is not on her birth certificate
but was given to her by her great aunts up in Aklavik the first
time they saw her as an infant. It is Kassoon which is her great
grandmother's name. The old lady had passed away the year before.
When she was a few weeks old some old lady pinched her and instead
of crying, she shouted angrily and punched the offending hand as
hard as she could with her tiny little fist. All the women decided
on the spot that the spirit of Kassoon, a feisty old woman who
brooked no nonsense, had returned!

Charlee is pure Tlicho Dene (Dogrib Indian) for as many generations
back as we know of. Her aunts gave her an extra name too. It is
Nukhah which means Aurora Borealis as does Neekha in a different
Dene dialect).

From Aklavik:

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Loche Liver and Eggs with Cranberries
 Categories: Native, Canadian, Fish, Offal, Caviar
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
           Loche liver
           Loche eggs
           Cranberries
           Sugar

  Fry a good amount of loche liver and loche eggs. Crush it with a
  potato masher. Add 2 or 3 cups of cranberries. Add sugar to taste.
  Stir together in a mixing bowl. Put into a cake pan.
  
  This is good hot or cold. You can even freeze it and have it for a
  snack later. Can also be made with whitefish liver and eggs.

  From Judy Semple, Aklavik, NWT, in the Best Cranberry Recipes of
  the Canadian Western Arctic, CBC North, Inuvik

  Originally from: CINE (The Centre For Indigenous Peoples'
  Nutrition And Environment)

  Loche is another name for Burbot, the freshwater ling cod- JW

 
MMMMM


Cheers

Jim


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