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===Indian taco=== Indian tacos, or ''[[Navajo]] tacos'', are made using [[frybread]] instead of tortillas. They are commonly eaten at [[pow-wow]]s, [[festival]]s, and other gatherings by and for indigenous people in the [[Native Americans in the United States|United States]] and [[Aboriginal peoples in Canada|Canada]].<ref name="FryBread">{{cite web |url=http://www.whatscookingamerica.net/History/NavajoFryBread.htm |title=Navajo Fry Bread and Indian Tacos: History and Recipes of Navajo Fry Bread and Indian Tacos |access-date=3 January 2014 |publisher=Linda Stradley |archive-date=25 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225050427/http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/NavajoFryBread.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Indian_taco">{{Cite web |url=http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/suburban/40494777.html |title=Hundreds attend powwow |access-date=3 January 2014 |publisher=Louisiana Broadcasting LLC and Capital City Press LLC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304182126/http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/suburban/40494777.html |archive-date = 4 March 2009}}</ref> This kind of taco is not known to have been present before the arrival of Europeans in what is now the [[Southwestern United States]]. [[Navajo people|Navajo]] tradition indicates that frybread came into use in the 1860s when the government forced the tribe to relocate from their homeland in [[Arizona]] in a journey known as the [[Long Walk of the Navajo]]. It was made from ingredients given to them by the government to supplement their diet since the region could not support growing the agricultural commodities that had been previously used.<ref name = smithsonianmag>{{cite web | url = http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/frybread.html | title = Frybread | access-date = 2012-01-20 | last = Miller | first = Jen | work = Smithsonian.com | archive-date = 2013-12-02 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131202172556/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/frybread.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> <gallery class="center" caption="" widths="220px" heights="160px"> File:Puffy taco.jpg|A puffy taco File:Frybread pop-up - November 2023 - Sarah Stierch 04.jpg|A [[frybread]] taco File:Huna Fish Taco.jpg|A fish taco on frybread </gallery>
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