Indian ice cream (Alaska)

Indian ice cream
Alaska wild berries from the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge, a mixture of true berries (blue Vaccinium uliginosum and red Vaccinium vitis-idaea) and aggregate fruits (red Rubus arcticus). This berries are introduced into the Indian ice cream
Alternative names Native ice cream, Alaskan ice cream
Type Dessert
Place of origin United States
Region or state Alaska
Created by Alaskan Athabaskans
Main ingredients dried fish or meat, fat, berries

Alaskan Indian ice cream is a dessert made of dried fish (esp. pike, sheefish or inconnu, whitefish or cisco, freshwater whitefishes) or dried moose or caribou meat and fat and berries (esp. cowberry, bilberry, cranberry, bearberry, crowberry, [high-bush] salmonberry, low-bush salmonberry, raspberry, prickly rose) or mild sweeteners such as roots of Indian potato or wild carrot mixed and whipped with a whisk or formerly hand made by Alaskan Athabaskans. Most common recipe for Indian ice cream consisted of dried and pulverized tenderloin of moose or caribou that was blended with moose fat in a birch bark container until the mixture was light and fluffy.

Both akutaq (Eskimo ice cream) and Indian ice cream are also known as native ice cream or Alaskan ice cream in Alaska. Not to be confused with Canadian Indian ice cream (or sxusem) of First Nations in British Columbia and kulfi (or Indian ice cream) from Indian Subcontinent of Asia.

The "ice cream songs" used to be sung during the preparation of Alaskan Athabascan Indian ice cream.[1]

Native names

Athabaskan language ice cream literally
Ahtna ?
Dena’ina nivagi[2]
Deg Xinag vanhgiq[3][4]
Holikachuk nathdlod[4]
Koyukon nonaałdlode[5] "creamed one" or "that which has been whipped up"
Upper Kuskokwim nemaje[6][7]
Lower Tanana nonathdlodi[1]
Tanacross nanehdlaad[8]
Upper Tanana ?
Gwich’in it’suh[9]
Hän ?

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Keynote abstracts - HLK 2010, Lund University". Conference.sol.lu.se. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Land Use and Economy of Lime Village" (PDF). Subsistence.adfg.state.ak.us. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Course: Deg Xinag Learners' Dictionary". Ankn.uaf.edu. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  4. 1 2 "ABCD" (PDF). Adfg.alaska.gov. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "EFGH" (PDF). Subsistence.adfg.state.ak.us. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  6. ↑ The Upper Kuskokwim People and Gathering Plants in the Upper Kuskokwim Archived December 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ "Whitefish Biology, Distribution, and Fisheries in the Yukon and Kuskokwim River Drainages in Alaska: a Synthesis of Available Information" (PDF). Rapidresearch.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  8. ↑ Tanacross Learnersʼ Dictionary by I. S. Arnold, G. Holton, and R. Thoman (2009)
  9. ↑ "Gwich'in Social & Cultural Institute". Plants.gwichin.ca. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
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