Often sweet but sometimes savory, it seems as if every culture has its version of fried bread. Italy has zeppole, Greece has loukoumathes, the Netherlands has oliebollen and Spain has churros. America ...

Fry bread is a popular food in many Native communities — but has a dark history. One student talks to her grandmother about its complicated place in Native culture. This is an excerpt from "Making ...

If you are a student of culinary history, you may know that fry bread has a rather controversial background. We may think of this type of bread as a traditional Native American dish, but sadly the ...

Let me start by acknowledging once more that fry bread is not a traditional food. Native people have mixed feelings about this bread because its ingredients represent our colonization. Yet I can’t ...

For hundreds of years, white invaders — popularly known as “settlers” — declared open war on Native Americans, and not just our bodies. It was also a war on our spiritualties, cultures, crops and ...