Aka: Fry Bread. Very popular. Can be sweet or savory. With savory filling/topping, further North, known as ‘Indian Tacos”
Navajos have something similar.
I make it when the weather turns cold. We crave that sort of thing in winter. Trick is to stretch the dough really thin and have oil really hot. Quite good.
Too humid right now in the Midwest for this sort of food, IMO.
My cousins (Yurok) made Indian tacos for my aunt’s birthday. I loved them.
Some people eat fried bread like that here, too-and I’m sure they think it is yummy-it just isn’t to me since I was not raised eating that stuff and I still don’t eat it-paleo for me-no white rice or bleached flour, and very few carbs-local honey instead of sugar if you want sweet-lots of free range meat and fresh veggies, butter, eggs etc-no processed food at all-I just never developed a taste for floury sugary stuff I know some people like-just how I am-a fresh local peach, pear or apple-or some blackberries- is sweet enough for me...