Document Type
Other
Publication Date
6-1-2008
Series Number
ESS 107
Pages
34
Description
Traditional food preservation methods have continued to be used among Native American tribes and communities in South Dakota. Elders teach youth about the traditional practice of sun-drying corn and wild berries through the hands-on process of working together with family. Buffalo meat was also traditionally sun-dried; this practice is now more commonly done through the use of a food dehydrator. Jerky or bapa (dried buffalo meat used in soups and stews) and sun-dried corn and wild berries are a healthy food which has traditionally provided sustenance to the Native American diet.
Publisher
SDSU Cooperative Extension Service
Type
text
Recommended Citation
Saboe-Wounded Head, Lorna, "Sun-Drying: A Traditional Native American Method of Preserving Food" (2008). SDSU Extension Special Series. 11.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/extension_ss/11