00:00Fry bread.
00:28A Native American family story written by Kevin Noble Millard, illustrated by Juana
00:34Martinez Neal.
00:39Fry bread is food, flour, salt, water, cornmeal, baking powder, perhaps milk, maybe sugar,
00:48all mixed together in a big bowl.
00:54Fry bread is shape.
00:57Hands mold the dough, flat like a pancake, round like a ball, or puffy like Nana's softest
01:04pillow.
01:09Fry bread is sound.
01:11The skillet clangs on the stove.
01:13The fire blazes from below.
01:16Drop the dough in the skillet, the bubbles sizzle and pop.
01:25Fry bread is color, golden brown, tan or yellow, deep like coffee, sienna, or earth, light
01:33like snow and cream, warm like rays of sun.
01:41Fry bread is flavor.
01:43See beans or soup, smell tacos, cheese and vegetables, delight in honey and jam, rise
01:51to discover what brings us together.
01:58Fry bread is time.
02:00On weekdays and holidays, supper and dinner, powwows and festivals, moments together with
02:07family and friends.
02:12Fry bread is art, sculpture, landscape, portrait, our daily craft, shared from teacher to student,
02:21a cycle of heritage and fortune.
02:27Fry bread is history, the long walk, the stolen land, strangers in our own world.
02:36With unknown food, we made new recipes from what we had.
02:44Fry bread is place, Alaska, Kansas, all the way to Maine, down to Delaware, on to Georgia,
02:52over to Oklahoma, Colorado, and California, cities and lands we call home.
03:03Fry bread is nation, Abenaki, Apache, Arapaho, Ojibwe, Onondaga, Oglala Sioux, Narragansett,
03:13Navajo, Nipmuc, Seminole, Shoshone, Sac and Fox, hundreds and hundreds of tribes.
03:25Fry bread is everything, round, flat, large and small, north, south, east, west, brown,
03:34yellow, black, white, familiar and foreign, old and new, we come together.
03:44Fry bread is us, we are still here, elder and young, friend and neighbor.
03:55We strengthen each other to learn, change, and survive.
04:03Fry bread is you.
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