When Lewis and Clark visited the Indians, they were so starved that one of the men shot a deer. When word reached the Indians, they ran the several miles to the kill and tore the carcass apart with their bare hands.
One Indian grabbed the intestines, put one end in his mouth and chewed and swallowed while his other hand stripped out the contents onto the ground.
They devoured it raw.
ewww! Were you there????
j/k
I just finished reading Bernard DeVoto's "The Journals of Lewis and Clark" where one of those two described that incident. Later on, they saw the same thing done with buffalo intestines.
Some years back, in a book on the Western Indian Wars a buffalo hunter described how the squaws cut the intestines into small sections, dipped their knife in the liver, added a drop of bile to the gut, and handed it to the kids. He said they chowed it down like it was candy.