All knowledge can be put into a kind of pemican, so that we can have it condensed. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Essays] Reference
Current bearing us rapidly to westward -- caught a sea cow, and had it converted into pemican. From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
And it centered around things like corn, wild rice, buffalo, turkeys, wild game, berries and processed foods such as pemican. From Wordnik.com. [American Bred] Reference
The pemican is buffalo meat, dried hard, and pounded in a wooden mortar. From Wordnik.com. [History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians] Reference
We ate a little of the pemican, helped each other to load, and again we started. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Vision] Reference
Many women came and made them presents of food, dried meat, pemican, and berries. From Wordnik.com. [Blackfeet Indian Stories] Reference
They gave us four sacks of pemican, and we set off again, on the 23d, at eight A. M. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814; or, The first American settlement of the Pacific] Reference
She is looking for a recipe for pemmican (pemican), specifically the way the Native Americans made it. From Wordnik.com. [craigdailypress.com stories] Reference
She made him moccasins -- seven pairs; and gave him also a sack of food -- pemican, dried meat, and back fat. From Wordnik.com. [Blackfeet Indian Stories] Reference
Messrs. M'Donald and M'Kenzie had taken this route, and had left for us half a sack of pemican in a cache, at the mouth of the river. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814; or, The first American settlement of the Pacific] Reference
At the Great Slave, Hudson Bay dogs were purchased, and the fleet sank to the guards with its added burden of dried fish and pemican. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of the Wolf] Reference
One night when I came home from a rabbit hunt, I found my mother and father packing up pemican and jerked meat as though for a journey. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Vision] Reference
Ammunition was laid in abundance -- a good stock of dried buffalo tongues-a dozen or two of beavers 'tails-and a good supply of pemican. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians] Reference
This is not the case however with the Scotch, who have been provident enough to bring with them a supply of dried meat and pemican for a future day. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823.] Reference
They found the Canadian voyageurs in arms, and ready to give battle to the colonists, who persisted in their refusal to surrender the bags of pemican. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814; or, The first American settlement of the Pacific] Reference
A sack of pemican, or pounded meat, which we found in a cache, where it had been left for us, was a great acquisition, as our supplies were nearly exhausted. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814; or, The first American settlement of the Pacific] Reference
Mr. M'Donnell having heard that several hundred sacks of pemican were laid up in a storehouse under the care of a Mr. Pritchard, sent to require their surrender. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814; or, The first American settlement of the Pacific] Reference
In consequence of these mutual representations, it was agreed that one half of the pemican should be restored, and the other half remain for the use of the colonists. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific] Reference
The mgm grand las vegas nevada has cheaply gladdened magnanimously the afflatus, as the pemican is peremptorily neatly the unreconciled from one tracklayer to the sometime. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The dish of pemican and marrow-fat, of which I spoke, was thus -- the first, an article of food used throughout this country, as familiarly as we use bread in the civilized world. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians] Reference
The corn, and even dried meat and pemican, are placed in these caches, being packed tight around the sides, with prairie grass, and effectually preserved through the severest winters. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians] Reference
After regaling ourselves with pemican and some fresh venison, we set out again, leaving two of the party to take care of the lame man, and went on about eight or nine miles farther to encamp. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814; or, The first American settlement of the Pacific] Reference
The horses had been left some distance below, not being able to get through the snow; but several sledges drawn by dogs were laden with pemican and other provisions, on which our men made a most abundant meal. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory] Reference
I was not forgotten neither, in the general surfeit; several large and generous wooden bowls of pemican and other palatable food were pent to my painting-room, and I received them in this time of scarcity with great pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians] Reference
At a feast, chunks of this marrow fat are cut off and placed in a tray or bowl, with the pemican, and eaten together; which we civilized folks in these regions consider a very good substitute for (and indeed we generally so denominate it) "bread and butter.". From Wordnik.com. [Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians] Reference
Then on pemican they feasted. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of Hiawatha] Reference
), where, from not having followed the advice of Mr. Dease, who had counselled us to take along a bag of pemican, we found ourselves absolutely without food. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814; or, The first American settlement of the Pacific] Reference
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