"According to Lois Ellen Frank, a Native American chef at the helm of Red Mesa Cuisine who holds a doctorate in culinary anthropology, fry bread’s history is a medley. 'It’s a food that kept ancestors alive,” she says. “It’s a survival food, but it’s also one of colonization and subjugation.'"

For younger children consider reading & baking along with Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard. If your local public library has a subscription to Hoopla, you can read along here.