If you remove ingredients like dairy, wheat, flour, cane sugar, beef, pork, and chicken from your diet—then what do you eat? For Sioux chef Sean Sherman, excluding colonial ingredients from his cuisines gives him the opportunity to spotlight indigenous produce and uplift local communities. Sean is the owner of the James Beard Award-winning restaurant Owamni in Minneapolis. Sean joins Chris to discuss the philosophy behind his indigenous restaurant, where he thinks the American education system falls short, and how he is using food to reclaim indigenous history.

This episode is part of a series of bonus videos from "How to Be a Better Human." You can watch the extended video companion on the TED YouTube Channel and the extended interview on the TED Audio Collective YouTube Channel.

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Sean cooking Indigenous foods:

Chris extended interview:

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Host: Chris Duffy (Instagram: @chrisiduffy | https://chrisduffycomedy.com/)

Guests:

Sean Sherman (Instagram: @the_sioux_chef | https://seansherman.com/)

Linda Black Elk (Instagram: @linda.black.elk

Links

Humor Me by Chris Duffy (https://t.ted.com/ZGuYfcL)

https://owamni.com/

https://natifs.org/