These slabs may have been used in the manufacture of pemmican, for pounding dried meat into a powder or for breaking bison bones. |
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Seed pemmican had the addition of wild cherries, saskatoon or buffalo berries added to the meat and fat mixture. |
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Native Americans once used the fruit to make pemmican, a type of meat jerky. |
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It was also made into pemmican, a mixture of ground buffalo meat, service berries, and marrow grease. |
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They were mostly French Canadians, they drank lake water mixed with wine and ate nothing but buffalo pemmican, and they sang the land alive. |
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And of course there was pemmican, the dried, pounded meat to which fat was added and which would last four or five years. |
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It in involved dried meats, sausage, pemmican and skill development in meat cutting and preparation. |
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This gave the Hudson's Bay Company control over the river and stopped the Métis' supply of pemmican from reaching the North West Company. |
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It showcased a mosaic of melon, a cloud of fortified wine and even a cotton candy made with pemmican. |
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The Métis tried to get the pemmican back but the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company stopped them. |
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Lower Fort Garry's warehouses stored the local fur supply and provided the pemmican and agricultural produce that sustained the trade. |
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Biltong, pemmican, jerky, bresaola, Parma ham and bacon are dried meats. |
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His West, under the Big Sky, is all skittering lizards, Indians on horseback, and mountain men eating pemmican. |
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Early on, American Indians blended wild cranberries with tallow and venison to form a kind of pemmican. |
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There were also mortar holes they had used for grinding pemmican, and narrow pits where they sharpened arrows. |
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To make the pemmican, everyone in the post pitched in pounding dried meat, rendering fat and mixing the two together in wooden troughs. |
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As a result, drying and smoking food was the only real food preservation method available, and pemmican is an excellent example of their use. |
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Having partaken heartily of frozen pemmican, I stuffed my pocket, bundled the rest into a bag on the sledge, and started off in high glee, stimulated in body and mind. |
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The golden age of polar exploration is long gone, and 100 years have passed since Robert F. Scott's men had enjoyed pemmican hoosh, stewed penguin and Champagne, yet winter in Antarctica has become increasingly vibrant. |
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Aboriginal peoples offer survival lessons to newcomers, introducing pemmican and bannock as staples of camp meals that fuel traders, railway crews, survey parties, lumbermen and miners. |
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They moved camp in the morning, without breakfast except for a crumbling chunk of dry pemmican which Aaron chewed privily. |
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The Métis of this area provided pemmican, a paste made from dried powdered bison meat mixed with fat, to the North West Company to use as food on its trading expeditions. |
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Lower Fort Garry's warehouses stored the local furs, trade goods and supplies and provided pemmican and agricultural produce to sustain the tripmen. |
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Blackfoot Indians used fresh berries in soups, stews, and pemmican. |
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He will give us, he says,' and in a loud voice, he shouted 'This is our land, it isn't a piece of pemmican to be cut off and given in little pieces back to us. |
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The emerging Métis gradually supplanted the Plains Cree and Assiniboine in their role of suppliers of pemmican and provisions to the fur posts in the interior. |
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As a result of the pemmican war, the Hudson's Bay Company named a new governor, Robert Semple, who took stern measures, burning down Fort Gibraltar. |
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