<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by terenz:
Commercialised stuff maybe. The traditional native american stuff is meat dried with a coating of berries (I think cranberry or blueberry or som other Vaccinium species.</font>
Are you quite sure? Native Americans were looking for maximum energy, not healthy eating.
1 pound of jerkey, 1 cup of lard:
http://www.nativetech.org/food/ChokecherryPemmican.html
I remembered this from my Boy Scout days and Google seems to bear me out...
http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/~SEB/pemmican.
Making fat optional seems to be a modern refinement, although I won't rule out local tribal preferences.