The Frybread Taco, in all of its great majesty and innate glory, has stood the test of time as a cultural time capsule and proof of our culinary existence.
As a people, we have formally taken in this piece of small-time rations on the Trail of Tears and – whether served down and dirty at a roadside stand or little league fundraiser, or polished and proper at an Indigenous restaurant or Casino kitchen – turned it into the number one Native meal of all time; a form of tasty freedom, with Indigenous and non-Indigenous people of all types standing in line and drooling for one tasty bite of the sacred host, usually with a tall glass of knock-off Kool-Aid in the summertime.
In other words, it's the classic indigenous cuisine, especially if you've never had the ever-elusive Meat Pie.
Like the somewhat shady, slightly pock-marked big brother that comes around every Thanksgiving or Christmas, the rarely-seen meat pie is that holy grail of Indigenous delicacy.