Courtesy of ICTMN
Fried baloney stuffed fry bread. It’s a real thing.
And a best seller for one pow wow vendor who managed to come up with a winner when trying to beat competitors also selling fry bread at pow wows.
But what else is a traditional best seller at pow wows? ICTMN reporter Autumn Whitefield-Madrano examined the trends beyond fry bread.
Whitefield-Madrano lists four main categories of fare: Fry bread, traditional game, corn, desserts and beverages. Then, there’s everything else:
While fry bread products top pow wow sales, the American part of Native American is in full force. Burgers, cheesesteaks, fries: The hot-and-now foods of American festivals have recently staked a claim on pow wows. “There are fewer native vendors doing this now, so pow wows are looking at outside sources,” says Morseau. “And if you’re at a fairground, the carnival food stands may have a contract with the grounds. I work under a canopy, setting up from scratch every pow wow—it can be hard to compete with those vendors.”
Whether your hand is wrapped around a corn dog or busy balancing an Indian taco, your feet are there to tap and dance to the same thing. But to keep a native rhythm (and dollars flowing to native vendors), you may want to save funnel cakes for the county fair.
Jenna Cederberg
Mark Trahant
The Idaho Legislature is considering a bill that would make it illegal to implement the Affordable Care Act in Idaho, the so-called “nullification” approach. The idea is that states can dismiss any federal law that they don’t like. And Idaho (and several other states) really don’t like health care reform. However most constitutional scholars dismiss the theory – even Idaho’s attorney general said states cannot pick and choose which federal laws to follow.
Nullification is an issue because it generates lots of bluster. It allows legislatures to complain loudly – all the while ignoring their real power over federal health care. You see: Legislatures could trump the federal government over Medicaid. But that would mean making real voters, constituents about as angry as can be.
Medicaid is a partnership between the United States and the state governments. It is a voluntary program. A state could pull out and not participate, passing on the federal matching dollars that pay for most of the program.
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