Traditional Native American Recipes

Thanksgiving is known as the harvest festival when the Pilgrims celebrated the help of the native people of Americas. Many of America's traditional Thanksgiving dishes have their roots in Native American foods. Below are some traditional Native American recipes you may want to try at your next Thanksgiving dinner.

Baked Acorn Squash - simple and delicious traditional recipe

Mashed Spiced Buttered Squash - delicious alternative to mashed potatoes

Venison - a collection of ways to cook this traditional game meat

Cranberry Sauce - traditional recipe

Swamp Tea - a description of what swamp teas are made of

Clover Tea  - traditional red clover tea

Wintergreen Tea - the benefits of wintergreen tea

Succotash - traditional dish made with lima beans, corn, and peppers

Tamales  - traditional dish of south western Native American people

Mohawk Corn Soup - delicious traditional corn soup

Posole - a traditional soup popular with the south west Native Americans

Roasted Corn on the Cob - delicious native dish

Maple Candy  - traditional candy made from maple syrup

Pop Rice - the predecessor to modern day puffed rice cereals

Rice Pie - many ways to cook using wild rice, including a recipe for this traditional dish

Wild Rice Pancakes - Patties of wild rice

Wojape  - A delicious berry pudding

Frybread - Frybread originated as a way to use rations given to Native Americans on reservations

Native American Recipes  - a collection of more native recipes

Native Tech - indigenous foods and native recipes

Native American Recipes - a collection of traditional recipes

Native American Recipes - authentic traditional recipes

The Cooking Post - traditional Native American recipes

Recipe Zaar - 261 traditional Native recipes

American Native Food - a history of Native American food