Interview · North Dakota · Charles Moran · NDNAEU 7
Themes: Culture & continuity, Children & young people
Learn About questions
What diabetes or nutrition programs exist in Native communities?
What is “traditional mealing”?
What is “frybread”?
How might a German way of cooking fried bread have been transferred to Native American tribes?
What is Fleischkuekle?
Do most Native American people have difficulty digesting milk products?
Learn From questions
Do I consider nutrition and health as I choose what to eat? In what ways?
Have I had “frybread”?
How do I feel about eating dairy products? Milk? Cheese? Ice cream? Yogurt?
Transcripts
04 Charles Moran Sr Nutrition
Watch this interview on YouTubeI know like some of the programs here the diabetes program nutrition programs are starting to talk about traditional Mealing again you know because it’s better for you so yeah not so much like lettuce and spinach and those kinds of you know meals but you know more the tradition of those like the soups and then pemmican and cornball oh so you know it is as a treat you know so got to put away the cakes and the cookies I was talkin you know where fry bread came from the Indians from Navajos Navajo tacos no it came from the Germans it was it’s fried bread and Germans do a lot of fried foods they didn’t learn how to boil dole and fry in hot oil right yeah you know so if you go like the wishing North Dakota or to kill their I mean what do you get you get a really nice little thin piece of fried bread wrapped with meat I mean wrapping meat around that fry bread around the meat that’s cle-cle you know that’s that’s a german meal that’s my cut my one of my brothers my teasing burgers I say yeah I want that meat there with that fry bread around at the Aussie you know it’s so you know we learned a lot of European how to eat it’s not good for us you know why are we lacked why are we select he know what to milk it’s because we weren’t raised on it long time ago our bodies 150 years ago are still trained to adapt to melt you know I could drink milk until I was 17 years old and then after I turned 17 that just I couldn’t do anymore I couldn’t although I can have ice cream once in a while I can have cottage cheese if I could muster the texture it’s got to be like wasn’t salad or so like had dizzy cottage cheese out of the bowl I can’t do it yogurts you know I know kids that eat yogurts today but yeah even you know I’m my own children cat still can’t handle milk you know they like it they like to taste the milk you know and you just can’t do it as a boy I remember my mom having the milk oh there’s a little boy yeah she Stowers shoot the cat I remember that you’re mad look cut it would be licking up in the air she would be playing with that cat you know but I remember my mom had a mail call I remember them having milk long time ago they made their own butter they know how to do that you know it’s kind of thing because they learned it from the Europeans you know so yeah
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