Tanka Bars: Try this ancient Native American recipe for modern energy and nutrition

Tanka Bars blend ancient recipe and nutrition with new packaging and marketing.

by Leon Pantenburg

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I want to know where my food comes from. And I want organic. Add some historic ingredients and sound nutrition and I’m sold. Tie all that up in with attractive, easy-to-carry  packaging and somebody take my money!

Those are just some of the reasons I like the Tanka Bar. The Tanka Bar tastes good, and only has 70 calories for a one-ounce bar.

Slightly smoky tasting and sweet, this isn’t that chewy, tough jerky that requires good teeth and strong jaw muscles to eat.

The recipe goes back to prehistoric times: buffalo meat and berries. And like the original, the Tanka Bar has no nitrates, and no antibiotics or added hormones.

“We started with the traditional recipe for wasna and thought to modernize it. We tried all sorts of ideas to improve on wasna, but each time we added something to the mix, we went further away from what we intended,” the Tankafund.org website claims. “It could not be improved! We came full circle to see that the traditional flavors of meat with fruit were perfect.”

The bison was much more than a source of food for the Natives. According to Lakota elder Virgil Kills Straight, on the website:

“In the Lakota language, the word ‘tatanka’ is translated as ‘buffalo’ or ‘buffalo bull. However, according to native Lakota speakers, the literal translation is something more like ‘He who owns us.’

“The four-leggeds came before the two-leggeds. They are our older brother, we came from them. Before them, we were the root people. We came from them. We are the same thing. That is why we are spiritually related to them. We call them in our language “Tatanka,” which means “He Who Owns Us.” We cannot say that we own the buffalo because he owns us^, ” Kills Straight explains.

Here are the Tanka Bar specs:

Ingredients:

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