How did Indians use dried meat and cranberries in cooking?

The Native Americans invented the first known transportable nutrition-packed power bar. This was called pemmican and was made of dried meat which gave protein, dried berries for vitamins (and a little zing), and melted fat which congealed and provided energy. Many varieties of fruit were used in pemmican, contingent on the local availability of various fruits, the cranberry being the choice among the New England Native Americans.