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 these colonial ingredients from his dishes gives him the opportunity to spotlight Indigenous produce and uplift local communities. Watch as Chris Duffy, host of the podcast “How to Be a Better Human,” travels to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to meet Sherman and ethnobotanist Linda Black Elk as they talk about foraging, access to Indigenous ingredients and how food connects us to our ancestors.
This episode is part of a series of bonus videos from “How to Be a Better Human.” You can find the extended interview on the TED Audio Collective YouTube Channel.
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@ShiftyCDN
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 pm
Oh yay, complaints about colonialism.
@brookvillekansas90
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 pm
the jungle always grows back
@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Aww. someone stepped on your white privilege. Poor little thing.
@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 pm
^ What fragility.
@SholaaA-s5o
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 pm
❤💪🏿⚡💪🏿🇬🇧
@tomasgomes
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 pm
How does this help me “to Be a Better Human” exactly?
@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 pm
To eat real food, rather than today’s processed garbage?
@syt-c1u
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 pm
You are what you eat
@KiefPackENTOfficial
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 am
13:19
@tomasgomes
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 am
@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism Okay, but that’s got nothing to do with “colonial ingredients”. Guess this TED video is only directed towards Americans.
@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 am
@tomasgomes Yes, it’s directed toward European settler Americans and their trash food they brought with them. It’s about getting away from that swill and back to our roots, before colonial invasion. This isn’t complicated. You don’t have to be an American settler or a Native Nations Indian to understand the purpose of the restaurant.
@ThePawcios
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 pm
Americans thinks that food is from grocary store? XD USA is doomed XD
@frogscotch19
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 pm
This is pure propaganda
@jejejejejesss
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 pm
It’s the healthy kind of propaganda!
@kaninerflagg9998
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 am
Explain.
@dadbod32
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 pm
You are assigning morality to food choice? Self righteous much?
@tomasgomes
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 am
They probably hated the fact the native didn’t make a vegan dish. Would be interesting to see that moral collision.
@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 pm
Native Nations. We’re NOT Americans.
@ZacatecasGuachichil
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Mexican food is heavily indigenous from various native nations in Mexico Central American and American south west but some ironically label it Latin food.
@untitled795
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 pm
My eyes couldn’t roll further back if they tried. Jesus.
@MistyMakesSomeMagick
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 pm
I appreciate this. So much of the native knowledge is getting lost. No matter where it comes from. We will need to have this knowledge in the future.
@jenlollygag6815
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 am
Wow this is beautiful!!!!❤❤❤❤ I want the cookbook! Hahaha
@KCNwokoye
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 pm
The colonizers trying to erase other people’s cultures with their fear, hate, and ignorance. Shame on everyone who perpetuated colonialism and those still actively working to erase the cultures of others today. Why can’t we just all enjoy our beautiful earth and share in its magic and glory? Why en? Thank you for creating and sharing this intentional content. God bless you!