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SEAN SHERMAN’S NONPROFIT ACQUIRES SEWARD CO-OP CREAMERY BUILDING
by Martin Thomas | January 8, 2025 | Announcements, NĀTIFS | 0 Comments
Sean Sherman, Indigenous Food Activist and Award-winning Chef, Named to Inaugural ‘Climate 100 List’ by The Independent
by maia.j | September 27, 2024 | Announcements, Indigenous Food Lab, NĀTIFS | 0 Comments
NATIFS Presents Indigenous Peoples’ Day and IFL brings the Indigenous Cuisine to The Minnesota State Fair
by maia.j | August 2, 2024 | Announcements, Indigenous Food Lab, NĀTIFS | 0 Comments
Sean Sherman Speaks at 1st Annual HHS “Food is Medicine” Summit
by maia.j | February 1, 2024 | Announcements | 0 Comments
NATIFS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SEAN SHERMAN BRINGS INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVE TO UNITED NATIONS COP 28 IN DUBAI
by Martin Thomas | November 29, 2023 | Announcements | 0 Comments
NORTH AMERICAN TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS FOOD SYSTEMS (NATIFS) ACQUIRES ACCLAIMED MINNEAPOLIS RESTAURANT OWAMNI
by Martin Thomas | September 15, 2023 | Announcements | 0 Comments
NATIFS, founder Sean Sherman announce Indigenous Peoples’ Day details at State Fair
by Martin Thomas | August 27, 2023 | Announcements, NĀTIFS | 0 Comments
natifs.org WELCOMES LINDA BLACK ELK AS EDUCATION DIRECTOR
by Martin Thomas | August 3, 2023 | Announcements | 0 Comments
CELEBRATED INDIGENOUS CHEF FREDDIE BITSOIE JOINS NATIFS.ORG AS CHEF-IN-RESIDENCE
by Martin Thomas | July 20, 2023 | Announcements | 0 Comments
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS) and its co-founder Chef Sean Sherman are hosting Navajo chef and author Freddie J. Bitsoie as the inaugural chef-in-residence at the Indigenous Food Lab by NATIFS in Minneapolis.
Nonprofit North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems Launches Flagship Indigenous Food Lab Market Featuring Indigenous Foods And Products
by Martin Thomas | June 1, 2023 | Announcements, Indigenous Food Lab Market, NĀTIFS | 0 Comments
In the News

The Elevate Prize Foundation Awards Global Changemakers $6M to Scale Visionary Work
This year’s Elevate Prize winners include Sean Sherman, James Beard-winning Chef and Founder & Executive Director of North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NᾹTIFS), which promotes Indigenous foodways education and facilitates Indigenous food access.

Indigenous A&E: Frybread on the menu, Buffalohead art, tribal dancer honored
A new restaurant/bar, The Frybread Lounge, opened in August 2024, the first and only Indigenous-owned restaurant in upscale Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona. The new restaurant is headed up by Darryl Montana, O’odham, who has worked closely with award-winning Chef Sean Sherman at Owamni in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Montana said he is proud to present an “Indigenized dining experience.”
January 3, 2025 | ICT News

Sean Sherman opening new restaurant in former Seward Co-op Creamery
The historic building will house a commissary kitchen and offices for the chef’s NATIFS nonprofit in addition to a counter-service restaurant.

Lidia Celebrates America: Changemakers
On LIDIA CELEBRATES “America Changemakers,” internationally renowned chef, author, and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich throws a national spotlight on progressive chefs, farmers, and entrepreneurs around the U.S. striving to change the future of food.
December 15, 2024 | KPBS

Finding Your Roots: Who is Featured in 2025?
Celebrity chefs José Andrés (founder of World Central Kitchen) and Sean Sherman follow their family ancestors from small-town Spain to Native American lands in the Dakotas to discover their hidden connections to history and food. Andres hails from Spain and grew up in Catalonia and Sherman is Oglala Lakota Sioux from Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
January 2, 2025 | PBS

The Best Restaurants in the Twin Cities
Owamni has been leading the global conversation about decolonized foods right from the downtown Minneapolis riverfront since it opened in 2021. But do we talk enough about the sensory pleasure of eating Indigenous cuisine?
December 15, 2024 | MSP Magazine

Center's New Program Touts Native Food as Medicine
The American Indian Center’s new Food is Medicine program marks a generational and culinary shift.
December 8, 2024 | The Cicago Tribune

It's Time To Build More Native Restaurants
From venison chops to grape dumpling soup, Indigenous foods are central to the American heartland — if only we had more places to eat them
October 1 2024 | Eater and The Food & Environment Reporting Network

Ready, set, eat: Here are the new foods that'll be at the 2024 Minnesota State Fair
Midtown Global Market’s Indigenous Food Lab, featuring a nixtamal (corn prepared in a traditional method) and wild rice bowl with wóžapi and bison meatballs or sweet potato dumplings, with the option to add cricket and seed mix. All items are gluten-free. Available Aug. 28 to Sept. 2 only.
July 9 2024 | MPR News

New Vendors are Changing the Minnesota State Fair's Food Scene
The State Fair’s yearslong diversification of food vendors is continuing in 2024.
The big picture: This year’s slate of new purveyors includes flavors from as far away as Korea and as close to home as the kitchen of acclaimed Minneapolis-based Indigenous chef Sean Sherman.
July 9 2024 | Axios Twin Cities

Sean Sherman: Reviving Native American Cuisine
Explore chef Sean Sherman’s journey, an Oglala Lakota tribe member who champions pre-colonial Native American cuisine in Minnesota. Rising from dishwasher at 13 to executive chef, he uses traditional ingredients and techniques, supporting more than 30 Indigenous purveyors to tackle health and economic disparities. With international attention on his mission, Sherman’s work addresses global health issues linked to unhealthy diets. Find out more about his culinary philosophy and vision for a healthier future as Sean Sherman talks to Al Jazeera.
June 30 2024 | Al Jazeera

With bison herds and ancestral seeds, Indigenous communities embrace food sovereignty
The Bozeman-based nonprofit HRDC built a new $29 million building with a state-of-the-art kitchen that will house the country’s second Indigenous Food Lab. It will open next year and expand the ongoing work creating recipes, holding cooking workshops, and preparing cooking videos.
December 9, 2023 | NPR
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