Ah, all good then. :3 (Sadly, there are those who aren't always joking, hard to tell over the Internet. :3)
And yeah, I remember the Bad Old Days of people "chiefing" along the side of the road (or the infamous Chief Saunooke's Mall Of Tourist Trap Crap at that--am I a bad person for being inwardly amused when it burnt down by being struck by lightning? :3) myself--and the days before the existence of Oconoluftee Indian Village. (Yes, our folks would take us down there. Yes, unfortunately, education into actual Cherokee heritage is fairly recent--around the past ten years or so, when it became fashionable to admit there were Native cultures other than those in North Dakota. :3)
Of course, the cheap crap at Saunooke's also led to joking..."OK, so it says here 'Made by the Cherokee Indians'--I wasn't aware the Eastern Band had an embassy in Hong Kong. Wow, we get around." :D
If you're ever there again, there's some stores that are out of the way that have the real stuff, too (one I tended to hit for ritual supplies in particular is one called Medicine Man Trade Store, they also used to have a *really* good place on the back end of Cherokee for crafts if you did stuff like making your own mocs or tear dresses or supplies for powwows...)
Haven't had raccoon, but not shocked to hear it's greasy. (Probably the most exotic of the local wildlife I've personally sampled is squirrel--too greasy for chili but pretty good when you bake it like chicken.)
And yes, "yum" only begins to cover bison. :9 (As an aside, if you ever do hit the Museum of the American Indian in Washington, they do have some of the better bison chili I've had, and that includes powwow food. :3)
Re: Osiyo!
Date: 20 Jan 2009 12:44 am (UTC)And yeah, I remember the Bad Old Days of people "chiefing" along the side of the road (or the infamous Chief Saunooke's Mall Of Tourist Trap Crap at that--am I a bad person for being inwardly amused when it burnt down by being struck by lightning? :3) myself--and the days before the existence of Oconoluftee Indian Village. (Yes, our folks would take us down there. Yes, unfortunately, education into actual Cherokee heritage is fairly recent--around the past ten years or so, when it became fashionable to admit there were Native cultures other than those in North Dakota. :3)
Of course, the cheap crap at Saunooke's also led to joking..."OK, so it says here 'Made by the Cherokee Indians'--I wasn't aware the Eastern Band had an embassy in Hong Kong. Wow, we get around." :D
If you're ever there again, there's some stores that are out of the way that have the real stuff, too (one I tended to hit for ritual supplies in particular is one called Medicine Man Trade Store, they also used to have a *really* good place on the back end of Cherokee for crafts if you did stuff like making your own mocs or tear dresses or supplies for powwows...)
Haven't had raccoon, but not shocked to hear it's greasy. (Probably the most exotic of the local wildlife I've personally sampled is squirrel--too greasy for chili but pretty good when you bake it like chicken.)
And yes, "yum" only begins to cover bison. :9 (As an aside, if you ever do hit the Museum of the American Indian in Washington, they do have some of the better bison chili I've had, and that includes powwow food. :3)