| Fry Bread to the Native American is as unleavened bread is to the Jewish People they both come with a story of great pain and suffering. It is a bread of remembrance. As with the struggles that the Hebrew went through in Egypt, unleavened bread commemorates the Passover and the last plague before leaving Egypt to the promise land. Fry Bread to Native Americans commemorates food, village and land lost (imprisonment). And remembering how community struggled to stay together and still be a people with what they were given. To many, Indian Fry Bread is a sacred tradition that comes with a story of great pain and suffering to be consumed by the people until the land is once again purified. | To many, Indian Fry Bread is a sacred tradition that comes with a story of great pain and suffering to be consumed by the people until the land is once again purified. Letter to the Editor FRY BREAD: Similarities between Native American People and Biblical Hebrews By Chris (Comeswithclouds) White, elder Native American Church of Virginia a Sanctuary on the Trail 
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Fry Bread: Similarities between Native American People and Biblical Hebrews5/11/2015
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Preparing for "The Gathering" we held a cultural classroom with one of our local restaurant owners. Several local people showed up to teach Kim Ragland how to make fry bread including two Native American men: Leonard Harmon of the Lenape Tribe and Jerome Mack of the Ogalala Sioux.  
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