noun
- a concentrated food consisting of dried meat pounded into paste, mixed with fat and sometimes berries, originally prepared by North American Indians
Usage: historical
Examples
- The explorers packed pemmican for their long journey across the wilderness.
- Native American tribes made pemmican to preserve meat for winter months.
- The fur traders relied on pemmican as a lightweight, nutritious food source.
- Traditional pemmican was made from buffalo meat, fat, and dried berries.
- Arctic expeditions often carried pemmican because it wouldn’t spoil in extreme cold.
- The recipe for pemmican has been passed down through generations of indigenous peoples.