Indian Fare

“We have cooking classes three days a week. The girls are taught to make all sorts of nice things to eat…. “The menu consists of bread, coffee, tea, fresh beef, beans, sugar, dried fruits, potatoes, and the vegetables we raise,” said Professor S.M. McGowan, the superintendent of the Mojave Indian School, in an 1894 interview that shared post-reservation era food. The “muck-a-muck,” or food of the Makah in the Pacific Northwest, included jerked meat and smoked fish like salmon