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For thousands of years, pemmican was made by the First Nations of Canada and Native Americans of the United States. It was usually made from dried buffalo meat, bone marrow grease, and dried berries. Moose, elk, antelope, and deer meat were sometimes used. Blackfeet, who harvested buffalo at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta, Canada, used Saskatoon berries. Crees, Assiniboine, and other Plains Nations (First Nations people who lived on the plains of North America) used buffalo berries, chokecherries, cranberries, or whatever berries grew nearby. Sometimes nuts, peppermint ...

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