He was interviewed live today on One Radio Network. It can be listened to in recorded format on their 365 player.
I asked him there on air about airing out high meat that you bury in the ground. He answered what high meat is, and that Inuit ate it in September for several days straight.
People ask me about jerky, and I don't feel like it is healthy. I ran across this just now, from his book We Want to Live, so I'll quote it
“To stay healthy we had to eat mostly meat, as my ancestors did thousands of years ago, and as the plains Indians did. But our food supply was always in jeopardy. Wasichu grew like mold on rotting fruit. They pushed further and further westward behind us. They slaughtered us, our buffalo, deer and all animals for greed and sport and again we were no longer able to get fresh meat daily. We had to cure it into jerky to survive.
“When we ate it fresh and raw, Wasichu said that it was a savage ritual. They said we would evoke their devil and infect them with disease. They ordered us to cook our meat or they would kill us.
Consequently, we got sick.
“Everything we did, Wasichu used against us as an excuse to kill us and take over all our land and resources. This weakened us more. Wrinkled us like grapes to raisins. Our bones and teeth began to rot rapidly. We became crazy like Wasichu - sick in heart and mind.
It sounds like from the book that jerky is considered the first step in the demise of health, according to Chief Black Elk who he heard speaking to him in a vision.
How are you faring with the diet Waungata?
