pemican

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noun lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians

First they ate the sturgeon, Nahma, And the pike, the Maskenozha, Caught and cooked by old Nokomis; Then on pemican they feasted, Pemican and buffalo marrow, Haunch of deer and hump of bison, Yellow cakes of the Mondamin, And the wild rice of the river. — The Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

pemmican

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