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

• In Dallas, a store reported brisk sales" Of an emergency ration pack of biscuits, malted-milk tablets, chocolate, pemmican and canned water.
• The book is a social history of New World food from Indian pemmican and succotash to the TV Dinner.
• They lived for two weeks on eight ounces of pemmican a day.

• pemican

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• Cranberries, a Thanksgiving Staple, Were a Native American Superfood
  The cranberry was a staple in American Indian diets at the time of the Mayflower. It was a key ingredient in pemmican—an early version of the energy bar.        
  Nov. 27, 2013 - National Geographic