Fry Bread A Native American Family Story - Indigenous Peoples Day Read Aloud for Children - Bedtime
Fry Bread A Native American Family Story, by Kevin Noble Maillard, is an engaging kid's book read aloud for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school ages (and adults still young at heart), for Indigenous People's Day.
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Parents and teachers, join me here at The Children's Storytime Bookshelf for daily read alouds in the classroom, at bedtime, or anytime!
Follow The Children's Storytime Bookshelf for a classic children's library.
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Transcript
00:00Fry bread.
00:28A Native American family story written by Kevin Noble Millard, illustrated by Juana
00:34Martinez Neal.
00:39Fry bread is food, flour, salt, water, cornmeal, baking powder, perhaps milk, maybe sugar,
00:48all mixed together in a big bowl.
00:54Fry bread is shape.
00:57Hands mold the dough, flat like a pancake, round like a ball, or puffy like Nana's softest
01:04pillow.
01:09Fry bread is sound.
01:11The skillet clangs on the stove.
01:13The fire blazes from below.
01:16Drop the dough in the skillet, the bubbles sizzle and pop.
01:25Fry bread is color, golden brown, tan or yellow, deep like coffee, sienna, or earth, light
01:33like snow and cream, warm like rays of sun.
01:41Fry bread is flavor.
01:43See beans or soup, smell tacos, cheese and vegetables, delight in honey and jam, rise
01:51to discover what brings us together.
01:58Fry bread is time.
02:00On weekdays and holidays, supper and dinner, powwows and festivals, moments together with
02:07family and friends.
02:12Fry bread is art, sculpture, landscape, portrait, our daily craft, shared from teacher to student,
02:21a cycle of heritage and fortune.
02:27Fry bread is history, the long walk, the stolen land, strangers in our own world.
02:36With unknown food, we made new recipes from what we had.
02:44Fry bread is place, Alaska, Kansas, all the way to Maine, down to Delaware, on to Georgia,
02:52over to Oklahoma, Colorado, and California, cities and lands we call home.
03:03Fry bread is nation, Abenaki, Apache, Arapaho, Ojibwe, Onondaga, Oglala Sioux, Narragansett,
03:13Navajo, Nipmuc, Seminole, Shoshone, Sac and Fox, hundreds and hundreds of tribes.
03:25Fry bread is everything, round, flat, large and small, north, south, east, west, brown,
03:34yellow, black, white, familiar and foreign, old and new, we come together.
03:44Fry bread is us, we are still here, elder and young, friend and neighbor.
03:55We strengthen each other to learn, change, and survive.
04:03Fry bread is you.
04:06I hope you enjoyed that story.
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04:20Thank you so much for watching.