Change Everything, Feed Your People

About this episode

The episode discusses the role of food in Indigenous liberation and features insights from Chef Sean Sherman and journalist Kate Nelson.

What happens when food becomes a blueprint for liberation? On this episode of All My Relations, we’re joined by Chef Sean Sherman (Oglala Lakota) and journalist/co-author Kate Nelson (Tlingit) to talk about Turtle Island—a cookbook, a history lesson, and a future-facing manifesto for Indigenous food sovereignty. We get into what it means to remove colonial borders (and colonial ingredients), why Indigenous foodways are global and relational, and how Sean’s nonprofit model is moving real resou...

People in this episode

Hosts: Matika Wilbur, Temryss Lane

Guests: Chef Sean Sherman, Kate Nelson

Topics covered

• food sovereignty
• Indigenous foodways
• colonialism
• cooking
• cultural history

Keywords

• food sovereignty
• Indigenous food
• colonial borders
• Turtle Island
• cooking
• cultural identity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: All My Relations

Books & works: Turtle Island

Places: Oglala Lakota, Tlingit

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