> Does anyone know of people who are researching the Native American use of
> buffalo meat and fat as part of their paleo diet?
>
> I'm trying to find out how Native populations utilized the fat, in
> particular.
>
>  It is highly saturated and tastes chalky. When Native populations made
> pemmican out of it, how did they make the fat palatable?
>
> I talked to a researcher at North Dakota State who said the native peoples
> made their pemmican out of dried meat and berries only (no fat)
>
> I'm looking for other sources of information, as well.
>

I have made a few posts in the past to the Paleofood list quoting
explorers & travellers on the preparaton of pemmican by
Aboriginals.  If I remember correctly they all used fat - sometimes
in the ratio of 60% fat to 40%meat.  Berries were not always used.
Searching the Paleofood achives at:
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/PALEOFOOD.html
will find the posts.

  Best of luck,
  Dave Chapman
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