1. My clothes fit better and I am able to wear some clothes I have not been able to wear for a few months
2. I move better
3. I am already not getting as winded going up and down the stairs and other activities.
4. My shoes are lose, I may need to start wearing extra pairs of socks
5. I am just about ready to punch a new hole into my belt.

The diet has not been all that bad. I have been eating flavorful home cooked meals 4oz of meat with vegetables and two fruits or bowls of berries for snacks. I have determined that my favorite berry is the blackberry, followed by blueberries. I am mostly eating grilled chicken, homemade taco meat, and grilled flank steak. I grill them up and then portion them out for the week. Fruits are apples and oranges. I am drinking lots of water and Crystal Light, all good stuff. The goal is 500 calories per day, I may be getting a bit more than that but I am still losing weight. I am also taking an herbal HCG supplement, and will continue to do so for another couple weeks. I was going to go off the HCG next week but decided to continue on a 40 day and not a 30 day schedule.

After I am done with phase 2 I go into phase 3. I can increase my calorie intake to 1500 per day and stay away from sugar, and carbs. That means no sweets, potatoes, bread, I can choose to start eating limited dairy but I am thinking I will not do that, other than butter to sauté things and some occasional cheese. I do this for 3 weeks.

Here is the cool part. I just described phase 2, where I currently am and phase 3. There is a phase 1 that lasts 2 days. It sounds crazy but it is recommended that a person spends the first phase of this diet eating all the fat and sugar they can manage. My two phase 1 days will fall on March 22^nd and 23^rd. Those are Powwow days! Epic win for Ikce! I will get to eat fry bread and everything else but only for two days, and then it is back to phase 2.

I am looking at going through 3 cycles of this diet. If I am losing 30 to 40 pounds per phase 2 I should be down 120 pounds + by June. I will also be losing weight in phase 3 but no as dramatically. My goal by then is to be less than 300 pounds. I may do a 4^th run but I will see. My final target weight is between 200 and 250.

I am looking forward to my new life. I am already seeing glimpses of it. I am making a list of things I want to do.

1. I want to dance again.
2. Learn to scuba
3. Learn to surf
4. Learn a martial art of some kind OOO! HAH! OOO!
5. Travel more, can’t learn to surf in Colorado
6. Hiking and photographing
7. Too many more to list

I am getting my life back and once I do I will not lose it again through inaction and poor choices on my part.

How I look on Feb 14^th 2012

I think that there is a big difference. I still cannot fit in a 2X tanka shirt comfortably but I am getting there. My final weight goal is 250 pounds or so.

Up until Yesterday my life has been hell. I would stare at the cats and think “I wonder if they taste like chicken” I also kept searching for Moo Goo Guy Kittey recipes online. I was pretty miserable. Yesterday was an ok day, today is about the same.

Am I hungry? Yea I could eat but I am no longer searching Amazon.com for “101 Ways to Wok Your Cat” ever 15 minutes. I guess my body is settling into the 500 calories per day.

Jonette has reported a weight loss of 7 and ½ pounds already. I have probably lost the same or more. Belly measurements are down about an inch or so. I cannot be sure due to the inexact nature of holding a sewing tape measure above my belly button and having Jonette walk around me.

No real change yet, I am still too heavy for our scales. I think I can handle it for 30 days. I was told that I would need to continue on the restricted diet for 3 more days to flush out the supplement after I stop taking it. That was a shock to hear while imagining Yoshi kitten turn into a turkey leg.

Things are looking good. The cats are safe, and this will not be as bad as I thought it would be 48 hours ago. I am drinking lots of water, and sticking with the plan. Today lunch is a salad with 4oz of homemade taco meat, homemade salsa and some extra red pepper and tomato. It really helps that we make good flavorful food to eat.

This weekend I will be grilling up some flank steak to portion out for the week.

All I good, looking forward to less of me and wearing a Tanka Bar shirt.

The cats say Meow…. Except Mins she just hisses. Old grumpy thing that she is.

Here are the gory details:

Height = 6’2″

Weight = No clue, last time I was weighed I was 360 and that was 4 years ago.

Waistline = 56″

Shirt size = 3X

I have two major problems that I need to overcome. I love food; to make matters worse I love potatoes, rice, bread, cheese, ice cream, cookies, brownies, cakes, pie and chips. All the worst things are the things that I love. The other problem is that I eat when I am bored. I nibble constantly.

My dear wife Jonette has a coworker that has used the HCG diet with great success. The HCG diet is a modified paleo diet that includes a supplement that suppresses apatite. I have my doubts but starting today I am giving it a shot.

The diet works like this. I start taking the HCG supplement twice a day; one dose before lunch and another dose before dinner. I have just taken my first 1ml of HCG. It is supposed to taste like chocolate. Yea right it is freak’n nasty. For the first 3 days I load up and eat whatever the hell I want to eat. If declaring war on 2 dozen chocolate chip cookies and a quart of Ben and Jerrys floats my boat for breakfast, I can go right ahead and begin my campaign of shock and awe. I have only 3 days to complete my assault and then the UN takes over on Friday.

For the next 27 days I am restricted to 2 4 oz servings of lean beef or chicken, some salad and two servings of fruit. I cannot have beef twice on the same day, same with chicken. If lunch is chicken then dinner is beef. Apples and oranges make the best fruit servings. The fruit can be eaten with my meal or as snacks but only two a day. After 30 days I must no longer take the HCG supplement. I can go back on the supplement after 30 days if I choose.

I am not sure if the reports are true but people are losing a pound or more per day. Most scales only weigh up to 350 pounds so even at max effectiveness I will not be able to gauge my weight for at least 10 days, till after the 3 binge days, so that would be Friday. I am not expecting to lose a pound a day but it sure would be nice.

Starting on Friday I have committed myself to 27 days of food hell, afterwards I will go on a paleo diet to maintain and continue to lose weight. I hope all goes well. I have some favorite shirts that no longer fit and I would love to wear a Tanka Bar shirt, but the biggest they come is in 2X. It has been years since I was able to wear a 2X shirt so that would be nice. Tanka Bar shirts are yellow, one of my favorite colors so BONUS!

So that is my goal, wear a Tanka Bar shirt and start powwow dancing again and other things.

I plan on providing weekly updates as to my progress.

Wish me luck.

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So other than boiled vegetables I am a vegetable fan, so much so that I will eat the broccoli first before it gets cold kind of person. So it would be safe to assume that I would dig vegetarian food. Sadly that is just not the case. I am sitting here at work picking at a dish of poblano peppers filled with quinoa grain. It smelled good, it even looks pretty good. The dish has poblano peppers in it so it must have some flavor.

Nope, seriously how much mad skillz does it take for a chef to take a delicious poblano pepper and render it tasteless? Yes there is a hint of heat from the decidedly mild peppers but I have eaten a chicken stuffed poblano that tasted fantastic. The pepper itself was just bursting with flavor. This all tasted like boiled vegetables. It not only tasted like eating a shadow but the act of eating it created a mouth feel that was mushy and grainy.

That is one side of the vegetarian spectrum I have tried, the other was long ago on a trip to Chicago. We stopped in at a local authentic vegetarian Indian establishment. I had a feeling that I was punked. The place was a large dirty buffet type restaurant with trays of unidentifiable food. There were no explanations of what the dishes were so I just played a game of food Russian roulette. The immediate results were not enjoyable. Every dish I sampled was nose wateringly over spiced. The later results were even worse when I crash redecorated the hotel bathroom that night. I now have an unhealthy fear of Indian food that will probably never go away.

I have also experienced home cooked vegetarian food. Jonette and I were invited over to a friend’s house to enjoy a feast of vegetarian lasagna. The lasagna came out of the oven and it looked like paste, there was no color just white and beige. I took a plate full of the half liquid mass and took a bite. Once when I was a kid someone dared me to lick a salt lick. Salt licks are big blocks of salt that ranchers use for their cattle. I had one in the back yard to attract deer. Deer like salt licks as well. I think that there was more salt in that lasagna than in the salt lick in my back yard. I forced myself to eat the rest and refused any second helping. To top it all off she served a desert of flourless chocolate cake that could have had a spectacular career as a puck in an NHL playoff game. Good thing there was a Burger King on the way home and a 7-11 where I could get a gallon of water to counteract the salt.

I will admit that I have not had good vegetarian food; maybe good vegetarian food is worth eating. Sadly I have yet to experience vegetarian or vegan food that is worth trying a second time. I am actually sad that my experience today just racks up another point in the bad column. I will go on eating vegetables and meat. I like them both and will keep my options open. Maybe someday I will find vegetarian food that is worth eating.

Until then “Stay hungry my friends!”

Physics and the numbers problem.

Physics was an absolute nightmare for me. I can visualize the experiments, the concepts make complete sense. I can see how things are supposed to work but once numbers are assigned I am lost. It is not even a memory thing; all the equations were posted around the room near the ceiling. They could have been written in Greek for all the good it did me at test time.

There was another student in my class. His name was Andrew he was very bright and a wizard when it came to numbers. Andrew could work those equations in ways I never thought imaginable. On the other hand he could no more visualize the experiments or set them up any more than I could manipulate the numbers. The two of us made a whole person, and we always teamed up as lab partners.

Unfortunately even with Andrew in the class I was still doomed. There were no partners for the tests. I would sit down and look at the test watching the equations and numbers slither around the page. I was hopeless and racked up fail after fail after fail. There was a massive crash and burn in my future and there was nothing I could do to avoid it.

What’s in the box!!!!!

Physics was my last class of the day and I was a bus student and had a ridiculously short amount of time to dash to my bus at the end of classes. Getting left behind was a disaster that had to be avoided at all costs. In order to reduce the time needed between end of class and catching the bus, I would take everything I needed to bring home with me to my physics class. One day I needed to bring home a feather fan that I had brought in for another class. I had the feather fan in a basic cardboard box that I tucked under my arm as I entered the classroom.

I was not the most popular kid in school, oh who am I kidding I was the least liked kid in the history of the school. I had a speech impediment that I was struggling with and succeeding in suppressing. Unfortunately I lived in a small town with a small population of students so I was immediately labeled a retard. Combined with the fact that I was devastatingly shy I was also labeled a homosexual. This opened me up to constant badgering every day. The day I had a box with me in class gave the other students a new opportunity to harass me something my fellow students never passed up. “What’s in the box? What’s in the box?” Followed by several highly sexual suggestions of what I could possibly have in it. For some reason I was not going to tell them what I had in the box, it was no business of theirs anyway. I finally had enough so I turned around and said. “It’s a letter bomb now leave me alone!”

Did I just say that out loud?

Yea I did just say it out loud; the furious activity of my classmates regarding the possible contents of my box came to a screeching halt.

I am 40 years old so I graduated high school long before Columbine or any other school massacres but it was still the absolute worst thing to say. The instructor responded “David would you please come up here.” This is it I thought, next will be counseling at best, detention again, or suspension, a swat, maybe the police at worst. I walked slowly up to his desk. “You are a smart kid David, but you are failing my class. I bet you are smart enough to actually build a letter bomb. If you can diagram one on the board and explain how it works for the class I will pass you.” A fog of confusion and relief surrounded me. This is not the end? All I have to do is draw a diagram of an IED on the black board and explain how it would work and I pass physics. “Yea ok” I said. He handed me a piece of chalk. “Students we have a special class today!” the instructor announced and sat down at his desk. I went to work.

I will not go into detail about what I drew on the board or my explanations of how it would work and where to get materials. I would like to report that even after instructing a class and impressing my classmates with my knowledge that their opinion of me was changed, sadly that is not the case. Years of stuttering and shyness will not be overcome by 40 minutes of impressing or scaring the hell out of my classmates. In fact the event probably just added the label scary psychopath to the list of perceived character and mental flaws they had all tacked onto me. However I did receive a D in physics that year, a passing grade just as the instructor promised.

I would not in any way suggest that anyone try this approach to pass physics or any other class. I was damn lucky to get out of it without being prosecuted even before the current hysteria that has gripped our nation over school shooters and terrorists.

Hi Mom! I am not sure you know about this one. J

Meet Yoshi! She is a 3 or 4 month old kitten. We adopted her from the Denver Dumb Friends League earlier this month. She is a real cutie as you can see. In this picture she is completely knackered after a long play session and a bath. She is so busy playing that she does not clean herself so we have to do it for her. Jonette and I needed some happiness this winter and a kitten fit the bill. Catzilla also has been wanting for a companion. His trying to play with Cinnamon has not been received well due to the fact that Cinnamon is old and grumpy.

It was not long before Yoshi and Catzilla became fast friends. They are nearly inseparable. It took only a week. I came in from the garage refrigerator carrying some food items and found Catzilla flat on his back in the middle of the living room floor with Yoshi bouncing around his head biting his neck. After 3 weeks they play constantly.

Yoshi seems to be pretty smart; we have a cat toy that is a piece of plastic fringy stuff on the end of a wire. I put the handle in between the arm and cushion of the couch so that Yoshi can play with it solo. Yoshi spent a couple days jumping and batting at the plastic fringy stuff and then realized that a wire was attached to it. She now plays with it by jumping up on the couch and manipulating the wire to make the toy bounce around. This occupies her for hours at a time.

Just recently she got the fringy part stuck in the door of the fireplace. I was going to let Yoshi worry over getting it loose for a bit and then free it for her. Catzilla was watching the activity and, before I decided to help out, ran over to the fireplace and attempted to free the toy for Yoshi. Catzilla was unsuccessful so I intervened and all was happy with the world. I am amazed that Catzilla was so quick to see the problem and then try to help out. Good Cat.

Unfortunately Cinnamon, I have already mentioned is old and grumpy, wants nothing to do with Yoshi other than make her disappear.

We have 5 cat nests, and 3 cats. Catzilla refuses to use any of the cat nests. He prefers boxes. So we have 5 cat nests and only 2 cats using them. Yoshi took a liking to a small white donut shaped one and yesterday Cinnamon decided to pee in it. Not just a little pee, she hosed it down. Cinnamon must have saved over a day’s worth and just let fly right before we got home. We came into the house and poor Yoshi was trying to bury it in the living room. I found a long stick and managed to get the soaked thing in the washing machine. Yoshi will have her nest back tonight. Cinnamon will just have to cope with having only 4 nests and 3 chairs to sleep on. Bad Cat!

I cannot be to mad at Cinnamon, she is 18 years old and is losing her teeth and her kidneys are bad. We have to give her antibiotics for her teeth and liquid for her kidneys. And she sleeps all day or is eating or begging for food. I just wish she would leave Yoshi alone, Yoshi spends all her time chewing on Catzilla and he could not be a happier cat for it.

More pictures of Yoshi.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/114828832787645499040/albums/5685824511724566673

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/114828832787645499040/albums/5689814004617135201

Pictures of Yoshi and Catzilla

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/114828832787645499040/albums/5686771171130217569

Denver Dumb Friends League.

http://www.ddfl.org/

Video of Yoshi and Catzilla playing King of the Box. A favorite game.

What I do not understand is the massive amount of self-burdened annoyance regarding the names of the holiday season.

Let’s take Thanksgiving first. I know people who absolutely hate Thanksgiving. I and others call them super Indians. They see Thanksgiving as a day of mourning not celebration. Yes the kids running around in paper feathers and fake fringed vests are annoying. However, as I have always said holidays are what you make of them. There is nothing more Indian in this world than saying “thanks” and eating massive quantities of food with your friends and family. The very concept of a thanksgiving feast was created here for a reason. Indian people have had thanksgiving feasts long before any pilgrims arrived. There are no pilgrims at my table, only friends. The anti-thanksgiving stuff is just stupid; there is no other way to describe it.

The next holiday is Christmas. I am not Christian but I understand that we live in the Christian nation. When I worked through college at a liquor store I would tell customers Merry Christmas during this time of the year. I was stunned when a customer yelled back at me “I’m Jewish!” errr um ok. I figured that since Merry Christmas offends some of our Jewish customers I decided “Happy Holidays” it is. I want to be inclusive, since not only is there Chanukah, but Kwanzaa and Solstice. I can be all inclusive and multicultural and ummm stuff.

That is not good enough!

A week later I say Happy Holidays and the customer responds. “This is Christmas! Jesus is the reason for the season! How dare you say Happy Holidays to me?” I wanted to beat my head on the counter till I lost consciousness. I can’t win.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?!

Super Indians – If I say Happy Thanksgiving to you, I am not participating in or honoring colonialism or genocide. Nor am I expressing approval for the god awful Thanksgiving pageants and other silliness that goes on with the so called “First Thanksgiving” I know it is all BS. I celebrate as a true giving of thanks, thanks that has been given on this soil long before America existed. If you live outside the United States, yea my bad just take it as “have a good day”

Christians. If I do not say Merry Christmas I am not oppressing you or waging war on your beliefs. I know what a war on beliefs looks like, and I can guarandamntee you that Happy Holidays is not a war against Christianity. In fact here in the United States there is no war against you of any kind. If you say “Merry Christmas” to me I will smile and say “Merry Christmas” back to you, and I will mean it.

Jews. If I say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to you, I am not oppressing you or ignoring your culture and beliefs. I am treating you like I treat everyone I see. I cannot tell if someone is Jewish on sight so please forgive me for my error. In fact if you say “Happy Chanukah” I will smile and say “Happy Chanukah” back to you, and I will mean it.

Almost all of us are celebrating something this time of year. Not all of us are celebrating the same things; some of us are not celebrating anything at all.

So

Happy Holidays everyone, even if that irritates you… still have a happy holidays, it really is the best I can do. Celebrate the season however you wish to, but enjoy it and do not worry so much about how or if everyone else is celebrating.

Can we all agree on New Year’s? Or does there need to be drama over that as well?

Naomi was just two years old. Her family was broken and she was placed in foster care for her protection. In Feb 2008. The little girl was placed under the care of Amy Holder in Sept for 2009. On Jan 20th 2009 her short life ended.

A medical examiner’s report showed there were scrapes and bruises on Naomi’s face, chest, back, legs, right buttock and head, as well as old and new scabs.An Indiana pathologist ruled the child died of blunt-force injury to the head, abdomen and extremities. Naomi was beaten to death by the person who was to protect her.

On Oct 3rd Amy Holder was found guilty of child abuse in connection with the death of 2 year old Naomi. A helpless two year old toddler beaten to death by a 40 year old care giver. There was enough evidence to find Amy Holder guilty. The jury however decided that the punishment for ending the life of a 2 year old girl was a fine of five thousand dollars, no jail time, no probation just a 5,000 dollar fine.

Amy Holder was officially sentenced yesterday. The judge claimed that he could not increase the jury award of 5,000 but he was able to add 150 dollars in fees and ordered Holder to pay 10,000 to a victims assistance fund and attend counseling sessions. Amy Holder must also register as a violent offender for the next 10 years.

Amy gets to live out the rest of her life, Naomi does not get that chance. Amy ended a life and the grand total for beating a two year old little girl to death is a grand total of 15,150 dollars, counseling and 10 years on a violent offenders list. Naomi gets to spend eternity in a box.

Naomi was a member of the Cheyenne Arapaho Nation of Oklahoma. Her last name was Whitecrow. The Whitecrow family mourns her loss. She was worth more than 15,150 dollars to them, she was worth more than 15,150 dollars to me.

was this little girl worth more than that to you?

Most people think of fry bread when American Indian food is mentioned. Yes fry bread is ubiquitous in Indian country but it is no more a Native food of the Americas than Potatoes were in Europe. By following a natural progression once you have fry bread you can use that as a base to hold other items. If there is fry bread there will be Indian tacos. Just take all your taco insides out of the shell and put them on a piece of fry bread. The result is delicious. Fry bread is also good on its own, just put honey on it or wojapi. I will get back to wojapi later.

The primary food for Lakota people was buffalo stew, using either fresh or dried buffalo. Another traditional staple was wasna, It is a type of pemmican and consists of dried meat pounded with berries, nuts, and fat. The resulting mash was then formed into cakes. The wasna was long lasting and packed a powerful nutritious punch. I have mentioned Tanka Bar in previous posts and it is a modern and very healthy version of wasna. Another common dish was a corn soup with venison. Lakotas were hunters and we acquired vegetables like corn and also tobacco through trade or other less equitable means with the local Mandan and Pawnee nations.

Each tribe or nation would use the food stuffs most readily available to them in their local area. There were no buffalo in the pacific North West but they had a yearly salmon run and would hunt whales. The Lakota’s eastern brothers the Dakota had lakes with wild rice and fish. Each part of the New World provided its own unique foods and cooking technique. The barbecue was created by the people in the Caribbean.

If there is one standard that can be told for all American Indian traditional diets is that they were primarily protein rich and with little to no processed carbohydrates such as can be found in breads and the sweet deserts of the old world. The introduction of processed carbohydrates has had a devastating effect on American Indian health. Obesity and diabetes is rampant in every Indian community and although fry bread is delicious it is cheap, easy to make, and Indians are eating so much of it they are dying. Good meat and good vegetables are expensive, and in remote reservation communities they are hard to find at any price.

There is a recent and strong push to encourage a more traditional diet in an effort to reduce the effects of a modern American one. Many websites are springing up with healthy traditional food recipes.

I have been known to say that most Lakota food is based on a dare, as in “I dare you to eat that” and for some things that is true but here is some of my favorites.

Buffalo Stew

A *traditional* buffalo stew contains.

Buffalo – or any other wild game meat, cut into medium chunks

Wild turnips – timpsila

Sliced onions

Place everything in a pot, cover with water and boil till done. Add salt as desired that is it. Traditional buffalo stew.

I understand. Look if you want to go all out traditional, get a buffalo stomach and clean it out real good. Use 4 sticks, one in each corner to hold it off the ground this is the pot. Place everything in there and then start a fire next to the buffalo stomach. Use the fire to heat fist sized rocks. Use two forked sticks to pull the rocks out of the fire and dump them into the cold stew to cook it. The trick is to bring the stew to a boil and then replace the rocks as they cool with hot rocks from the fire. I have never seen this done and to tell you the truth I cannot imagine anyone cooking in this way.

We live in a modern world so let us take advantage of that fact. Let’s try it again.

**BUFFALO VEGETABLE STEW**

2 lbs buffalo

1/4 cup oil

2 large chopped onions

2 cloves of minced garlic

2 cups of corn

8 cups water

1 tsp.salt; 1 tsp.oragano; 1/2 tsp.pepper

4 carrots, sliced

3 potatoes, cubbed

1 green pepper(optional)

Cut buffalo in cubes, brown in oil. Put meat aside and saute garlic and onions in the buffalo oil.

Return the meat into pan, add water, corn, salt, pepper.

Cook for 2 hours, or until meat tender.

Add the vegetables and continue to cook until done, about 30 minutes.

There is no rule that you cannot add tomatoes, or any other herbs and seasonings, the easiest way to make buffalo stew is to just replace the cow meat with bison and you are good to go.

Wojapi

I mentioned wojapi above and as promised here it is. Just because Native diets were lacking in processes carbohydrates did not mean there was nothing sweet. Wojapi can be best described as a berry concoction that can have a consistency between a soup and a pudding. It is great on fry bread but it is also fantastic on ice cream, add some chilies to it and it makes a good steak sauce as well. Most wojapi is made with blueberries today. Chokecherries are traditional and if you can get ahold of some I would suggest that you try it.

Wojapi

5 lb’s of berries (blueberries, raspberries, cherries or a mix)

8 cups of water

Honey to taste.

Take a 5 quart pot and add all the berries, mash them with a potato masher. Add water and boil lightly for 15 to 20 minutes.

Remove from heat and strain out any seeds put back on heat and add honey to taste.

If you desire a thicker wojapi add cornstarch.

You can substitute sugar but it will not taste as good.

Making wojapi is a mess, I have cleaned up more “wojapi dots” than I care to recall from the kitchen. If you do get chokecherries be sure and strain out the large seeds, you do not want to eat those.

Fry bread

I use a yeast fry bread recipie. I have not had any luck using the baking power/soda versions.

1 pkg. dry yeast

3 cups warm water

1 tbsp. salt

1 tbsp. sugar

6 cups flour

2 tbsp. oil

Dissolve yeast in warm water then add salt and sugar. Let stand for 5 minutes covered with a towel. Add flour and oil to liquid mixture. Mix and put on floured bread board and knead until mixture is smooth. Put dough in a greased bowl, cover with towel and let it rise for 1 1/2 hours. Remove from bowl and put on bread board. Make dough into 2 balls rolling each into 12 inch circles 1/2 inch thick. Cut into 2 inch squares and drop into hot cooking oil. (Works best with cast iron skillet.) Fry 5 to 6 pieces at a time for only a few moments. Drain on paper towel and sprinkle with white powdered sugar.

Sources

Here are some resources of Native recipes and suppliers.

www.tankabar.com – using traditional recipes to make the modern world healthier, great product, and great people

http://www.aihd.ku.edu/ – American Indian Health and Diet Project.

https://www.nativeseeds.org/ – grow traditional foods from around the world, purchase seeds here.

http://lakotafoods.com/default.aspx – popcorn

http://www.nativetech.org/recipes/index.php – more American Indian recipies.

http://www.nativerecipes.com/ name says it all

http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=visitor&second=dc&third=mitsitam Mitsitam café at the National Museum of the American Indian.

Indian food has had a great impact on worldwide food culture, and it all started right here.