In all the conterversy over Fry Bread of late some information has been left out. My grandmother taught me to make fry bread. She told me the story of her grandmother being locked up in a camp along with her whole tribe. They were given rancid lard, flour salt, sugar, baking powder or yeast and powdered milk. Out of this a food was made to fill the stomach. I was to cook this bread the way my grandmothers cooked it until the purfication of the earth. To remember the suffering that our people went through.To remember the relatives who gave their lives and to never forget. Only after the purfication of the earth would we give up this bread and go back to our flours made out of seeds and roots. I was to tell this story each time I made the bread. To honor my grandmother and aunties, I will do as she has instructed me.

Our family does not eat fry on a regular basis. We have some after ceremony or at the Pow Wow. Fry bread is not the main problem in our diets, it is the commidity cheese which is 80% fat, the peanut butter that is 90% fat, the canned myestry meat which is mostly fat, the lack of fresh fruits and vegetables and the high sugar in most of the foods in the comodities boxes given on most reservations. Thank you