The Sioux Chef: Restoring Indigenous Food Ways with Sean Sherman

One Bite is Everything · Apr 9, 2026 · 58m

What would American food look like if the story had not been interrupted?

That's the question at the center of this conversation with Chef Sean Sherman — an Ogala Lakota chef who grew up on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and has spent his career restoring the indigenous food knowledge that colonization, displacement, and forced assimilation nearly erased.

Sean is the founder of the Indigenous Food Lab and the award-winning restaurant Owamni in Minneapolis. His latest book, Turtle Island, maps the full tapestry of indigenous food across North America — erasing colonial borders to…