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When you think of North American cuisine, do Indigenous foods come to mind? Chef Sean Sherman serves up an essential history lesson that explains the absence of Native American culinary traditions across the continent, highlighting why revitalizing Indigenous education sits at the center of a better diet and healthier relationship with the planet.
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Transcriber:
Hi there, my name is Sean Sherman,
I am a chef.
Unfortunately, I don’t have food
for you guys tonight.
Food for thought, I guess, maybe.
I’m here to talk
about Native American food.
I was born and raised
in Pine Ridge in South Dakota,
and our focus are on Indigenous foods.
And, you know, it’s been
a really interesting journey so far.
I started my company
called The Sioux Chef —
S-I-O-U-X, a little play on words —
back in 2014.
But it had come from quite a few years
of trying to research and understand
because I kind of grew up in restaurants.
I grew up in Pine Ridge.
I grew up in Spearfish
and in South Dakota in the Black Hills.
And I started working
a lot of touristy restaurants.
And, you know, I had just a long career.
All through high school and college,
I worked restaurants.
After college, I moved to Minneapolis.
I became a chef
at a young age in the city.
And I’d just been cheffing
for a long time.
And a few years into my chef career,
I realized the complete absence
of Indigenous foods.
And even for myself,
I realized that I couldn’t even name —
I could name less than a handful
of Lakota recipes that were truly Lakota,
things without cream of mushroom
soup in it, right?
(Laughter)
So I was really trying —
It, you know, put me on a path
to try and understand what happened,
like where are all the Native American
foods at, you know?
And so it’s been really interesting.
So Indigenous foods, that shouldn’t be —
there shouldn’t be
a big question mark, you know,
we should know about it,
because no matter where we are
in North America, we’re —
you know, North America obviously begins,
all of its history begins
with Indigenous history, right?
And no matter where we are,
we’re standing on indigenous land.
And so we should have a really good,
strong sense of Native American food
because it’s just the land that we’re on.
It’s just the history
of the land that we’re on.
So for us, it became more
than just serving foods.
It really became talking about it
and talking about why it isn’t here.
And I think it’s a really important
story for us to know.
And it’s also really important to see
the benefit of why
understanding Indigenous foods
could really help all of us in the future.
So, you know, but where are
all the Native American restaurants?
We live in a world today,
you know, where we have —
as the US, we’re like food capitals
of the world, right?
We have some of the best restaurants
in New York City, in Chicago and LA,
and zero Indigenous restaurants
that are focused on the land
that they’re sitting on,
which is kind of insane.
You can have every other restaurants —
and Indian restaurants don’t count,
because that was
my only choice on Facebook,
because when I was trying to decide
how to describe our restaurant —
is it Indian or is it
new American or old American?
But anyways, so what we’ve done
is like we tried to focus on, first off,
just understanding what were
precontact foods, precolonial foods.
And I realized that that term didn’t even
really make a lot of sense to people.
So I think it’s really important
to go through the storyline
because to understand colonial
or what is a precolonial food,
you have to understand colonialism itself.
And to understand colonialism,
the easiest way is just to Google it.
So if you Google the word “colonialism,”
you’ll get a definition,
“it’s a policy or practice
of acquiring full or partial
political control over another country,
occupying it with settlers
and exploiting it economically.”
And this is something
that’s happened not uniquely here.
It’s happened all across the globe.
So all over the Americas,
North and South, all over Africa,
all over India, all over Southeast Asia,
Australia, New Zealand,
Hawaii, you name it,
like this has been a very common history
for a lot of areas around the globe.
For the US, which is our focus,
because we’re right here smack dab
in the middle of the United States,
it’s really important
to understand the history
because the US did a really good job
of smudging its history a little bit.
So if you’re going through high school,
the history you get on Indigenous peoples
probably isn’t the best history.
So you really should read a little bit
more about what really happened.
So let’s start with Manifest Destiny,
which is really kind of something
that was born from the idea
of what was originally
doctrine of discovery,
which basically gave European powers
their own rights to say,
if we discover it, then we own it.
Right? But that policy
doesn’t really work that well,
because if you go into an Apple Store
and you discover a brand new MacBook,
most likely you’re not going to have
the rights to walk out the door with it.
But a lot of our policies and a lot of —
like, our country was built on this notion
that we just have
this right to everything, right?
And people have to remember
how young our history is.
We’re such a young country, you know?
There’s like, barely any time has passed.
So just go back a couple hundred years
and, like, start with 1800s.
So in 1800, the United States
is still not much more
than just the 13 colonies
at that point in history.
And it’s the 1800s that are the most
deadly century for Indigenous peoples.
So a lot of really bad things happened
during this time period,
because in 1800, in reality,
almost all of what is the US
is still completely occupied
by Indigenous peoples and communities
and a huge diversity of them
across the board.
Even despite European powers
having big land claims, you know,
France has a big section
and Spain’s got big chunks
and England is holding on to chunks
and Russia is coming in
and there’s all sorts
of just big land grabs happening.
But in reality,
it’s the Indigenous communities
that have always been there.
But this century is a mass century
of change, you know.
So during this time period,
things move really fast.
So this is just a really tough time.
And for me, this is like
my great-grandfather’s era
because my great-grandfather
was born in the late 1850s
and during his lifetime,
he sees so much change so quickly,
he sees so many battles between
the Lakota and the US government.
He sees the Battle of Little Bighorn
when he’s 18 years old,
during the battle on the Lakota side.
He sees his kids having to go
to boarding school, cut their hair,
learn to speak English,
learn Christianity.
He sees his children —
some of his children even grow up
to fight for the US government.
So it’s such a crazy amount of change
to see in one single lifetime, right?
And during this time period,
people are getting pushed around.
At the beginning of that century,
over 80 percent of that landmass
was under Indigenous control.
And by the end of the century
less than two percent,
only because of the reservation systems.
And this is all just part of the story
of why there aren’t
Native American restaurants,
because we just went through
a really traumatic time in history
where we’re still — we haven’t even
had the time to heal yet,
let alone evolve, right,
when it comes down to all this.
So the US history, you know,
there’s a lot of these big movements
like the Indian Removal Act of 1830,
the Homestead Act of 1862,
the Indian Appropriation Act
that basically said
we’re wards the states,
that we’re not our own entities anymore,
the Dawes Act of 1887.
And all these pieces were very focused
and the government was really, really good
at what they did, you know.
And it all starts with
taking our food away from us.
So the loss of Indigenous food
is something that starts
from the very beginning.
George Washington, one of his
very first things that he does
is send General Sullivan out to push
all the native people outside of the US.
He wanted them captured.
He wanted them brought back.
And they went on this march
that lasts a single summer
and does just that.
So after a single summer,
there’s no more native people
in all of that New York area,
from D.C. all the way up, basically.
And they named George Washington
the president.
They gave the name for a US
president: Town Destroyer,
which is still the name
that they use today
because he just devastated a whole area.
And this is the precedent that gets set
for how the US government
treats the Indigenous peoples
throughout the next century, basically.
So here, in our area,
the very systematic destruction of bison,
which they knew would hurt
a lot of people, and it did.
And by the end of the century,
there was less than 500 on the planet.
And it was very purposeful. So …
But I think what’s most damaging for us
and why we don’t have
a lot of Indigenous restaurants out there
was the loss of our education,
because this whole generation,
like my great-grandfather’s generation
and my grandfather’s
generation especially,
like, those generations
should have been getting
the full extent of Indigenous education.
They should have been learning everything
their ancestors intended them to learn.
How to fish, how to hunt,
how to gather, how to identify plants,
how to live sustainably,
utilising plants and animals around us.
But instead, we went through
a really intense assimilation period
where we basically, you know,
the boarding school systems
stripped this whole generation
of all that knowledge and education.
And it became very traumatic
because this was not a fun situation
for these kids to go through.
This was a military-style school
and they popped up all over the US,
all over Canada.
These kids being again forced
to speak different languages,
forced to learn new religions,
forced to learn skills
that had nothing to do with them.
And being forced to is the situation.
You know, a lot of these kids perished.
We shouldn’t have to worry
about sending kids to school
to see if they’ll survive or not.
But this was a very harsh situation
for kids to go through.
And they went through
physical abuse, sexual abuse.
They went through mental abuse.
And we’re still reeling from that
in our communities today
because of this direct link
to the trauma that happened there.
And being Indigenous in the 1900s
wasn’t much better.
My grandparents were born
before they were even citizens,
which doesn’t happen until 1924.
And then in the 40s and 60s,
the US government started
dismantling a lot of tribes.
So over 100 tribes got dismantled
so they could continue
to take over more land spaces.
We couldn’t vote until 1965.
We couldn’t celebrate religions
until ’78, you know.
So what does it look like for me
growing up in this?
I was born in the mid-70s
and growing up in postcolonial America.
Like, what kind of foods was I eating?
And I get asked that a lot
because people in the media
are always like,
“You’re native, like what kind of foods
did you grow up with?”
Because they want to hear a cool story
like, “I’d get up in the morning,
take down an elk with a slingshot,
we’d have a big family feast.”
But that wasn’t the reality,
because like I grew up
with the Commodity Food Program
because we were poor,
like a lot of people on the reservation.
And we didn’t even have the pretty cans
when I was growing up.
We just had, you know, these
black and white cans, beef with juices.
And that’s dinner, you know,
and that sucks. So …
And Indian tacos, you know,
even when I was a kid, I was like,
why does our Lakota food
taste like Mexican food?
It didn’t even make sense
to me at the time.
Because we could do better than this.
There’s so much more to learn
and more to offer with indigenous foods.
So it’s really important to understand
what Indigenous foods are.
But first, you have to understand
just like how diverse our nation is.
We’re so diverse, there’s all sorts
of plants and animals out there.
And when you layer
Indigenous peoples on it,
you can see so much
amazing diversity, you know?
This is a language map.
So just look at all those
huge color blocks
and within those color blocks
there’s all sorts of diversity
within those two, right?
Still today, we have 634 tribes in Canada,
573 in the US and 20 percent of Mexico
identifies as Indigenous.
So there’s an immense amount
of indigeneity out there today
and we should be celebrating
that diversity because it’s awesome.
You know, just compare colonial
settler states to Indigenous territories
and you can see that diversity.
It should change everywhere we go.
You know, the US, the food system
shouldn’t just be
hamburgers across the board,
or in Canada shouldn’t just be poutine.
We could do so much better
describing our foods, right?
And so we have to really focus
on Indigenous education
because it’s important for us to learn.
So when we’re looking
at Indigenous education,
it’s a study of all these pieces,
wild food, permaculture,
native agriculture, seed saving,
seasonal lifestyles, ethno-oceanography,
hunting, fishing, whole animal butchery,
mycology, salt, sugar and fat productions,
crafting, land stewardship, cooking,
metallurgy, Indigenous history,
traditional medicines, food preservation,
fermentation, nutrition, health,
spirituality, gender roles,
sustainability —
all of that stuff
is this really important education
that we need to learn, you know.
So let’s just break down
some foods real quick.
Proteins are easy.
We learn about how natives were able
to use every single part of a bison.
But that’s just because we didn’t have
the privilege to be wasteful.
We figured out how to be resourceful
with everything that we had
and we treated everything like that.
But basically, anything moving around
is literally game.
And we cut out beef, pork and chicken
because those animals didn’t exist here.
And there are other animals to eat
out there that aren’t those three.
So there’s just a ton of stuff out there.
And you shouldn’t be afraid of something
if it’s not a cow, a pig or a chicken
because there’s a lot of cool foods
out there, and even insects,
it’s so normal
in so many parts of the world
and it was normal here, too.
But for us, our biggest love
is plant knowledge
because you start to learn
the plants around us,
you just see food and medicine everywhere.
The Western diet has never
really taken the time
to learn this amazing biology
that surround us
and all these plants all around us.
Because there’s so much to learn.
There’s all sorts of staples out there,
like the timpsula,
which is the prairie turnip
which grows around these plains.
Camas root from the Pacific Northwest,
wild rice from the Great Lakes,
even just seaweed out there in the oceans,
which a lot of families were utilizing,
or in the deserts
where all the plants look like
they want to hurt you or maim you.
The Indigenous peoples
knew how to live with them.
And another piece
like the domesticated piece,
with all the agriculture,
it’s really important,
because we think of this as agriculture
but we know how damaging this is.
And it’s scary when you see headlines
like, “What should we do
if glyphosate was found in our Cheerios?”
You guys should be
really scared about that.
That stuff’s really nasty, you know.
But it’s just amazing to learn
about Indigenous agriculture
because it goes back so far
and people figured out
all sorts of ways to farm
and build sustained, huge civilisations,
whether they’re
in the middle of the desert,
whether they’re on the coastal regions,
or way up here in the Dakotas.
People were able to farm amazing things
that had an amazing amount of diversity
that we need to protect.
We are the stewards
of what’s left of this diversity.
And a lot of it got wiped off the map
in the 1800s with all that colonialism
that was going on.
So we have to be understanding so we can
protect these for the next generation
because these could disappear
if we don’t do anything about it.
So it’s really important
to understand that.
So to use Indigenous knowledge
in today’s world,
it’s just important to open up your eyes,
you know, stop calling everything a weed
because that just means
you don’t know what it is.
You know, our kids can name
more K-Pop bands than they can trees
and that’s your fault, you know?
(Laughter)
We need to teach them things
that are important.
Because, like, just look around.
There’s food everywhere
and we should be making pantries,
like our grandparents did,
and our great-grandparents.
They just used the food
that was around us.
So we should just
be making our own pantries
that tastes like where we are,
what makes us unique in our own region.
And that’s why we should have
Native American food restaurants
all over the nation,
run by Indigenous peoples.
There’s so much to explore.
There’s so much flavor.
There’s so much health.
And it’s just super healthy, you know,
and it’s fun for chefs to create
and play with all these flavors.
Chefs should be really excited
about getting to learn all of these plants
that aren’t in their diet
because they’re just going
out of a French cookbook.
And for us, we just want to get this food
back into tribal communities especially,
and make people healthy and happy
and break a lot of the cycle of, you know,
government reliance on food
and huge rates of type 2 diabetes
and obesity and heart disease
because of this low nutritional food base
that the government’s
been feeding us for too long.
And we just need to think
about how we can adjust
and make a better lifestyle.
We need to use our land spaces better.
Lawns are fucking stupid.
(Laughter)
We need to really do something better.
We could just be growing food
out there, you know?
We could just be putting
food plants everywhere.
We need more community gardens,
more permacultural landscapes.
It’s that easy.
If we can grow 30 golf courses
in Palm Springs
in the middle of the desert,
just think what we could do
if we just did that for good
and just put food everywhere, you know?
An organic food, food that wants
to grow in that certain region.
So, you know, Indigenous diet
is really the most ideal diet.
It’s healthy fats.
It’s diverse proteins,
it’s low carbs, it’s low salt.
It’s a ton of plant diversity.
It’s organic agriculture.
It’s celebrating cultural
and regional diversity.
And it’s seasonal.
It’s just really good.
It’s like what the paleo diet
wishes it was,
when it comes down to it,
because that just makes sense,
you know, and we need to protect this.
We need to get this out there.
And again, it’s not unique here.
There’s Indigenous peoples
all around the world
and there’s an Indigenous knowledge base
that’s basically untapped
because of the colonial structure
that’s been put everywhere.
We need to be protecting people
in Africa and India
and Southeast Asia and Australia,
New Zealand, Hawaii,
South America, North America.
We need to protect those.
We need to be celebrating diversity
instead of trying to build stupid walls
to keep people out.
We need to have, you know,
healthy food access,
cultural food producers,
regional food systems,
local control of food systems,
not governmental control,
access to Indigenous education
and environmental protections
to protect a lot of this
natural food that surround us.
We need to be better connected
to our nature around us
and really, truly understand
how it’s a symbiotic relationship.
We’re not above it, right?
If we can control our food,
we can control our future.
And for us, it’s an exciting time
to be Indigenous
because we are taking
all of these lessons from our ancestors
that should have been passed down to us,
relearning them
and utilizing the world today
with everything it has to offer
and becoming something different.
We’re at the stage
where we’re ready to evolve.
This is an Indigenous evolution
and revolution at the same time.
So I hope someday
that you can drive across this nation,
stop at Indigenous-run food businesses
and see this amazing amount
of diversity out there
and just think about it, you know.
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Gigglemania Runnin’ Wild
July 30, 2021 at 8:47 pm
There was too much bison and those stupid animals were blocking the railways and even worse they were feeding backward families that needed some darwinism
dthwsh1899
July 30, 2021 at 8:53 pm
First TED talk I’ve watched all the way through in a while. Glad it was based on true history, discovery, education and utilitarianism and NOT politics.
Michelle Bennett
July 30, 2021 at 9:07 pm
Lots of foods common in Europe are from the Americas, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, chocolate! Imagine Italian food without tomatoes!
Michelle Bennett
July 30, 2021 at 9:12 pm
I have a pear tree and rosemary growing in my front yard! In my back yard i have an apple tree, fig tree, raspberrys, herbs, Jerusalem artichokes and probably others im forgetting. Even with all this there is still enough space for my daughter to play!
Gaasuba Meskhenet
July 30, 2021 at 9:38 pm
There’s no cultural centers in Memphis TN for the peoples who’s land this is. Just a colonizer educational center/museum
Leah McGrew
July 30, 2021 at 9:55 pm
I would be reluctant to eat at a Native American restaurant. Not because the food would be strange, but because I seem to be so allergic to many of the foods that originated in the Americas. In fact, the two foods that I really can’t eat are corn and peppers. Corn is the worst, I suspect that a few more run ins with it will finally cause a fatal reaction, but the hollow peppers give me a reaction that I suspect most people would be reluctant to experience too often. Many legumes bother me as well, but really the other two are the bad ones. I would like to support such a restaurant, but I would be afraid to eat at one.
Robert Deneka
July 30, 2021 at 11:12 pm
FOOD. FOR. THOUGHT.
You’re more chief than chef & you’re brilliant.
MeXXeR
July 30, 2021 at 11:15 pm
I dont see many native americans out and about either.
Elizabeth Ingram
July 30, 2021 at 11:15 pm
I would love to eat at Native American restaurants if there were some in San Diego!
Michael Primerano
July 30, 2021 at 11:52 pm
Speaking as one european-american, I wish you the utmost success and you have this family’s full support. Not only would I love the opportunity to take my family to an indigenous restaurant oh, but I would also like to learn about indigenous plants in my area. Best of luck.
Fran Hoffman
July 31, 2021 at 12:13 am
Great talk! Very captivating. Such thoughtful and relevant issues raised. Would love to see and taste more indigenous food. Enjoyed listening to all the history. We have a similar story here in New Zealand with our indigenous Maori who are still healing from generational trauma due to colonization. Thankfully we are seeing a rise in and an appreciation of traditional Maori food here and there are some restaurants and food putlets specializing in Maori food. Would love to see that happening in the USA and in the North. Loved this talk. Thankyou x
Sierrah Max
July 31, 2021 at 12:32 am
Cool my Thoughts for over 30 years. Well Said. Thank You 💝
Samuel Zev
July 31, 2021 at 12:33 am
If there is an absence of native American food, it’s because no one from the native community has ever tried publishing their recipe. Instead of a Ted talk, do a cooking tutorial for the particular dish
T0MapleLaughs
July 31, 2021 at 12:33 am
Had buffalo burger years ago. It was nice. Disappointed it isn’t on more menus.
chas ames
July 31, 2021 at 12:34 am
I love ‘Indian’ tacos, but I would be willing to try camas root (my region).
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Nice Talk. Big scope, upbeat.
Sreejith
July 31, 2021 at 12:36 am
I don’t know a single popular Native Indian person in the USA. At the same time I know many popular Indian Americans who came from the other side of the globe. Weird and sad!
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July 31, 2021 at 12:38 am
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Cathrine S
July 31, 2021 at 12:41 am
Why don’t we hear more about native Americans overall? This always baffles me when I hear about what’s going on in the US. Am I missing something or can someone please explain?
Lisa Love Ministries
July 31, 2021 at 12:45 am
1 Corinthians 15:3-5👑
“For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.”
Hoka Corndancer Hawkeyes
July 31, 2021 at 12:56 am
I LOVE HEARING THE TRUTHS OF MY INDIGENOUS ANCESTORS, CULTURAL, TRADITIONAL WAYS OF LIFE!
Doooogi
July 31, 2021 at 1:08 am
We are cattle.
The Edge
July 31, 2021 at 1:09 am
Most of our ancestors Robbed them, We owe them Alot……Damn courrpt D.C
abeismain
July 31, 2021 at 1:11 am
While white man builds America 🇺🇸 natives busy with their pipes.
Dooker T
July 31, 2021 at 5:09 am
You’re not supposed to say it, but the insular nature of the reservation system is likely part of the problem as well, just as it is the source of many other problems that ail many Native American tribes. You can go on about the injustice of what happened to the many tribes of North America, but human migration and the conflict that often ensues (with winners and losers) is not unique in the world at all – it is the norm – just as was the inadvertent spread of disease through simple human to human contact. The reality today is that the reservation system hurts Native Americans of all tribes.
Maribelle Lebre
July 31, 2021 at 5:09 am
Much wisdom incl “Lawns are fucking stupid, right?”
Absolutely!
x x
July 31, 2021 at 6:24 am
There was an Anishinaabe restaurant called Nish Dish here in Toronto that didn’t survive covid. I think about the food often, I always left happier than when I came in.
Susan Fanning
July 31, 2021 at 6:48 pm
I’ve heard of that one.
marcianne AIKAU
July 31, 2021 at 6:41 am
We really do need to think and take action, thank goodness for people with the skills! Community growers, clean water, regulated natural ways, ideal life, no wars, etc. So, much to think about. Then Jesus came and told us that , we ought to be caring, respectful of each other, His way seems to be the only way. Good and evil ways, choose good! Pray for, hope for, Humanity’s folly, greed, etc. to be replaced with sensibility and the Love of our Mother earth, that can sustain it’s people’s. God is Great, the universe is a wonder, filled with many star people, we are only a very small part of God’s plan, but your truth is very like the many Histories of Earth.
One Card Short
July 31, 2021 at 7:21 am
there aren’t more indigenous restaurants in the US because indigenous people here were almost all genocided by the USA government.
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July 31, 2021 at 8:44 am
I am only going to a Siberian-American a.k.a. “native” (lol riiight) restaurant if firewater is on the menu.
𝕮𝖚𝖈𝕶 𝕮𝖗𝖚𝖘𝖍𝖊𝖗
July 31, 2021 at 8:46 am
If the white man must call them Native Americans just because they came across the bearing land bridge from Asia first, does that mean Mexicans illegals have to call white people Native Americans? It only makes 1:1 rational sense
eroico _378
July 31, 2021 at 8:47 am
Commenting random videos until I become a meme day 1
𝕮𝖚𝖈𝕶 𝕮𝖗𝖚𝖘𝖍𝖊𝖗
July 31, 2021 at 8:47 am
Well first of all, they didn’t have written language so they don’t have recipes, also they were hunter gatherers, so they ate what was available, they weren’t harvesting smorgasbords and cooking up extravagant and complicated feasts
𝕮𝖚𝖈𝕶 𝕮𝖗𝖚𝖘𝖍𝖊𝖗
July 31, 2021 at 8:50 am
4:00 Somebody should tell this guy he should actually read history; he might be shocked to find that he’s not “native”, he didn’t sprout from the great plains, his “people” immigrated here from East Asia.
Ree A
July 31, 2021 at 11:24 am
I am from India . It true I never hear native American foods ( just jurk foods ) .
I will also like to try native American food .
RyKloog
August 1, 2021 at 2:40 am
You’re from India but you’ve never had Indian food?!
Miroslav Houdek
July 31, 2021 at 12:22 pm
Nice talk … had to watch that machine gun scene from “Hold the dark” to make myself feel better though
robobrain10000
July 31, 2021 at 1:16 pm
This guy is punny. I approve.
Ronald Dan Caliva
July 31, 2021 at 2:58 pm
Is it ideal for someone being a VEGAN? I think it’s a little disturbing , having to eat the same food over and over it’s no good you’re just being an anti Christ by denying the foods given by God which are also good for your body system.
Angela Sealana
July 31, 2021 at 9:45 pm
When did he say that? Clearly one of his points was bison as a staple indigenous food.
Subscribe Gone Wrong
July 31, 2021 at 3:28 pm
Who here is getting so much inpiration from TEDX
amazing videos
Michigan USA/Singapore S.E.Asia
July 31, 2021 at 4:02 pm
Yes their needs to be more Native American restaurants, especially on Native American colleges
Gerda Huertas
July 31, 2021 at 4:14 pm
So many important truths! I hope you succeed. Great talk. So much knowledge almost lost. Could be our future.
Ligia Sommers
July 31, 2021 at 5:33 pm
Love love love 🙏🏻💖🌹
Phil Groves
July 31, 2021 at 7:55 pm
“Lawns are Stupid” Yep. Spot-on. A total waste of resources.
Tom SK
July 31, 2021 at 8:13 pm
Wow… much diversity
Jen Rivera Bell
July 31, 2021 at 9:22 pm
Yes yes yes!
Real Creature
July 31, 2021 at 10:27 pm
Native American recipes must be much different than they were 600 years ago, mainly due to the Spanish and US governments’ attempts to completely dominate and/or annihilate every tribe, nation, the entire race, really.
I often think of the many millions (at least tens of millions if not hundreds of millions) of Native Americans who would have been cooperatively running the country with a much more environmentally-friendly and a much less corporation-enabling agenda, had the United States government not been controlled all along by the most evil pieces of inhuman garbage imaginable.
Might does not make right, but it most often gives evil people control over the disadvantaged, resulting in the loss of precious people and their priceless contributions to humanity, leaving the world an increasingly darker place.
Real Creature
July 31, 2021 at 10:27 pm
Native American recipes must be much different than they were 600 years ago, mainly due to the Spanish and US governments’ attempts to completely dominate and/or annihilate every tribe, nation, the entire race, really.
Many tens of millions of Native Americans would have been cooperatively running the country with a much more environmentally-friendly and a much less corporation-enabling agenda, had the United States government not been controlled all along by the most evil pieces of inhuman garbage imaginable.
Those were different times, when much of the world also thought slavery was fine and dandy. “Manifest Destiny” was used as part of the rationalization for the continual encroachment and subsequent massive, cold-blooded murders of many thousands of Native Americans that were authorized by the US government (apart from the many ongoing wars against them), and this went on for many decades. After most of the Native Americans had died from wars or diseases caused by European viruses used as bioweapons, relatively small reservations were placed in the worst environments, with little to no regard for individual tribal traditions or cultures, and this segregation and oppression continues with very little objection from the general public. It’s not OK and it never was.
All Native American tribes should have their original lands restored to them, and the US government should be modified to include Native Americans as an equal governing body, the way it always should have been. The USA is utterly doomed if these smallest of changes don’t take place soon.
Might does not make right, but it most often gives evil people control over the disadvantaged, resulting in the loss of precious people and their priceless contributions to humanity, leaving the world an increasingly darker place. Today’s US citizens are living in an era similar to the period when many German citizens claimed they had no idea just how horrible Hitler and the Nazis were treating the Jews – the Native Americans being the oppressed people, continuing to die in desolation due to US government oppression and the brainwashing of US citizens to believe that “Native Americans are being treated fairly these days. Gee whiz, they’re allowed to have casinos.”
Yasi Faizi
August 1, 2021 at 4:16 am
They are the true american
Galilei
August 1, 2021 at 5:12 am
Watching this guy talk has made me realize how I little I know about the plants surrounding me, let alone what’s edible. We need more folks like Sean Sherman out there.
Johny Ricco
August 1, 2021 at 6:59 am
Creating a good Native menu and restaurants is not difficult. But Mr. Sherman is talking about reinventing American factory farming. This approach might work for high end restaurants specializing in organic farm to table stuff, but not if the goal is to make Native food popular.
Allison The Chaotik Kitten
August 1, 2021 at 8:14 am
The knowledge was taken away from our ancestors by colonizers who forced assimilation or death. I’m Métis in canada and have no clue what my ancestors used to eat or how they lived. Almost all the food available close to where I live makes me sick in one way or another. Oh, and don’t get me started on how much I despise canadian architecture and how the cities are built! Too much concrete and zero real privacy!
Terros
August 1, 2021 at 2:06 pm
Meanwhile the US is condemning china for what they are doing to the Chinese Uyghur population… hypocrites’
seattlegrrlie
August 1, 2021 at 3:52 pm
My grandfather is Native Washington, Native American. He was born 1908 when Natives lived on the land. He went to bording school and then enlisted in the military. This is recent history. It wasn’t long long ago
Reinier van Ramshorst
August 1, 2021 at 4:27 pm
I was actually curious about native American dishes and instead I got a lesson about colonialism and history that I really didn’t need
Wulf Mountain Path
August 1, 2021 at 7:44 pm
I wish most TRD talks had anywhere never this much quality, truth, and relevance! Gratitude for this little note of reality!
Mychal West
August 1, 2021 at 10:52 pm
This! Yes!
Elizabeth Leach
August 1, 2021 at 11:22 pm
Best Ted Talk ever! 💯
Sagittarius A*
August 1, 2021 at 11:50 pm
While he is right about everything and I abhor the westerners for what they did to them and the Bisons:
Every time I am confronted with this dark chapter of American history and again investigate it I end up similarly appalled – what the indigenous tribes did to each other, how they fought and killed other tribes is not really better.
(Just by looking up some tribe on Wikipedia and then following some links …)
Planet of the Atheists
August 2, 2021 at 3:41 am
20 million subscribers and your videos are averaging 36000 views….think you might want to get back to your origins?
Sarah Gianetto
August 2, 2021 at 12:06 pm
One of the best TEDTalks I’ve seen in a long time. I grew up in AZ, and learned the “history” in school that mentioned how Natives used the land and animals so thoroughly… and always wondered wtf happened that made White people go, “That’s dumb, let’s ruin the planet instead in the name of money!”
NEW ARTS NU ARTニューアーツニューアート
August 2, 2021 at 3:28 pm
Indigenous Restaurants ran by indigenous people?
That’s so Racist against “white people”, this is America buddy.
Go back to India.
Jashan Singh
August 2, 2021 at 3:41 pm
This guy speaks very fast so i dislike
kristina makela
August 2, 2021 at 5:41 pm
Lawns were invented by one of the French Kings who wanted to show off how much land he owned. Lawns are sickening.
Jared Unger
August 2, 2021 at 5:42 pm
Tocabe ftw
DaryleenHouseOfLove
August 2, 2021 at 5:49 pm
🙌🏼 🙌🏼
Kaiser Chaoui
August 2, 2021 at 8:32 pm
They were their before Europeans invaded them but it doesn’t make them natives
Isaiah Ardoff
August 2, 2021 at 9:40 pm
One of my mentors, my first real childhood friend. Said that I should start a survival camp. I would teach them how to survive with just a hatchet, like Brian. From Hatchet, By Gary Paulsen. I’ve been raised by the “boomer” generation. I’ve picked up some cooking lessons from my dad and baking lessons from my grandma. I was in a single-car; car accident on March 10, 2008. I suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury that brought out my Bi-Polar depression and made my ADHD medication cause me to get manic. I’ve just recently begun to really depend upon the Lord, Jesus Christ. I surrendered my will to the will of God Almighty.
Artyom Arty
August 2, 2021 at 11:49 pm
His logic is wrong. He is saying “why is there no more native restaurants”, when the actual question should be “why are some cuisines so popular/successful?”. Just because there is a certain minority in US, doesnt mean that everyone should now go out and eat their food. As he even says, US is a very diverse country. As a Russian, I dont go around saying there should be more russian restaurants or education on Russia, etc, as it would be incredibly arrogant of me (and pointless)
Moreover, US is a capitalistic country. Restaurants are a business. If your selling point on why I should eat American Indian food is “because you should feel sorry for us”, then that means the food sucks and nobody wants it.
And the whole point about America being very indigenous just 200 years ago is a manipulation tactic. I mean, my country, Russia, was occupied by mongols for like 300 years, does that mean I should now try to learn mongolian culture and cusine? Many nations, if not all depending on how far back you look, were colonized/conquered by others
and blaming American Indian lack of success on others is just wrong. Many immigrants come to this country without family, money, can barely speak English, and yet eventually they succeed. A lot of the self-made millionaires are actually 1st generation immigrants..
Lastly, his whole speech he keeps on using the word “Should” as if everyone owes him something or as if he thinks he knows better whats best for humanity. A teenager living in fantasy land will describe how the world SHOULD be, but an adult living in the real world will describe how the world IS.
Joseph Rasmussen
August 3, 2021 at 2:52 pm
Tomatoes, potatoes, corn, squash, beans, peppers, wild rice, berries, maple sugar, venison, rabbit, bison
Jonathon Lambson
August 3, 2021 at 8:34 pm
It’d be cool if there were places we could go to try out different things
Tom Ingrassia Images
August 3, 2021 at 10:49 pm
What does this have to do with restaurants?
Charley Edwards
August 4, 2021 at 6:44 am
not even gonna watch this….. seems pretty obvious…… there was no economy to sell food in…. thus food was never intended to be amazing flavour and or to be desirable by others. you just made food and ate it….
Charley Edwards
August 4, 2021 at 6:46 am
poutine is great tho… i never heard him mention a single food that could be sold in said indigenous restaraunts
Ethereal Entity
August 4, 2021 at 8:10 pm
Trails of tears
Nas
August 4, 2021 at 8:29 pm
I would love to try indigenous food, never had the chance too, and it makes complete sense. I think I even had the same thought as a kid wondering what they ate, cause I was just told maize and that don’t make much sense
me man
August 4, 2021 at 9:08 pm
The big tribal casinos could offer their own tribe native foods. It would be a way to keep the knowledge alive, give others a chance to try it, and build up demand, leading to new restaurant
me man
August 4, 2021 at 9:11 pm
Scary true statement. “If we control our food….” Now think about who does control the food supply- at crop level. We are in trouble, everyone needs to grow anything they can. I’m in 4th floor condo, bit I grow sprouts and a little hydroponic herb garden
Arslan SAMA
August 5, 2021 at 12:35 pm
The funny fact is, guys here whose ancestors participated in the colonization even massacred indigenous people, are watching this video like watching an endangered, harmless, already assimilated animal in a zoo, might be immersed in grief for a short time, but soon you will be fine.
beth98362
August 5, 2021 at 10:48 pm
3:50
Now days it’s called immigration!😒
Joel G
August 20, 2021 at 5:21 pm
If you have eaten avocados,tomatoes,corn,tortillas,salsa,chocolate, squash,peppers,tamales,pop corn , potatoes,beans etc.. Then you have eaten Native American food.
The 7th-Day-Sabbath-Bride Channel
August 20, 2021 at 5:36 pm
Its so so sad. I grew up in Albuquerque, NM and there was only ONE restaurant that I knew of. And it had the BEST food ever! It’s called the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
Steven F
August 20, 2021 at 5:37 pm
I’m absolutely ashamed and so sorry for what the Canadian government and the Catholic Church did to indigenous peoples it’s disgusting that as a white 38 year old male I’m only learning about Canada’s own bloody violent past…none of this history was in our schools in the 90’s.
Kevin M
August 20, 2021 at 5:44 pm
Super depressing at first what was done to them but super informational afterward. Thank you.
Bye
August 20, 2021 at 5:45 pm
ASK WHY IS THERE AN ARAB STORE IN EVERY URBAN AREA ACROSS AMERICA??? WHAT DEALS ARE BEING MADE WITH WHO AND WHY??.
L E R
August 20, 2021 at 6:06 pm
Everytime I go on my solo long rides on my motocycle across the western states I have the same thoughts in the mornings when I start. That is, the lands are so vast & beautiful it’s no wonder the Native Amer’s are still pissed and why they fought so hard to keep what was theirs for hundres of years. They were just out numbered, cheated and eventually overwhemed by the new arrivals. As the speaker said this went on around the world.
Barney Weiss
August 20, 2021 at 6:54 pm
Native American = Southwest Asian
Music Man
August 20, 2021 at 7:05 pm
Buffalo is delicious! Likewise Venison.
Music Man
August 20, 2021 at 7:22 pm
Native Hawaiians have resisted being classified as “Native Americans”. I can certainly understand why. What upsets me most is that some people on Native reservations don’t actually own their land. You may own your home, but in some cases, you cannot take out a home equity loan on a house your family has owned for generations. That’s the horrible truth. Too many Native Americans live on government owned land like most North Koreans do. Sad!
revelwoodie
August 20, 2021 at 7:27 pm
I really love game birds, and I bet a really authentic indigenous American menu would include some tasty options. Seriously, how many native species do we have just of quail alone? Combine that with the amazing variety of native tubers and squash, and some of the best shellfish in the world, and you can count me IN. Here’s hoping this really takes off.
ger du
August 20, 2021 at 7:32 pm
Don’t tell me what the problems ( in the US ) are.
Open one in Stockholm. ( I suggest in Södermalm. )
GUARANTEED customers! We are suckers for new culinary experiences.
Samantha Thompson
August 20, 2021 at 7:58 pm
This is so great. Love it!
Another Mark Russell
August 20, 2021 at 8:17 pm
Is he going to mention the cannibalism?
He seems to have a romanticized idea of history.
Heegaherger
August 20, 2021 at 8:27 pm
If there was a native restaurant in my area, I would so try it.
Algernon Calydon
August 20, 2021 at 8:35 pm
Our kids can name kpop but not plants and that’s you’re fault. I have lived in Alaska thirty years and I have never known a native person who has ever successfully tanned an animal hide. The best green in Alaska is the goosetongue and I know no natives who eat it though it’s free and prolific. I’ve been to culture camps in this area where it’s supposed to be about learning native culture and eating native foods. What was on the menu, spagetti. Go to the store on check day and what is in people’s carts, pop, chips, cereal, prepared freezer foods. No flour, rice or other staples, just basically junk food. This isn’t being forced down their throats, it their choice to ignore their culture and forget traditional foods.
steve coley
August 20, 2021 at 8:55 pm
X-Files
Real American History
The colorless counting corpses came to America and saw yellow rocks in the river. It made them go crazy and murder every non-white being on the continent. Buffalo, beaver, otter and Native American children playing in the river.
The colorless counting corpses then waved their bible around in order to manufacture “entitlement” to suck the joy out of Native American human beings and steal their land.
After that, the colorless counting corpses waved their bible around some more in order to manufacture “entitlement” to suck the joy out of African human beings and make them into slaves to work the land that they stole.
This is what qualifies as brilliance and hard work to vampires (greed).
But unlike earthling human beings and creators of joy… the capitalist counting corpses that rule US can’t create harmony (real intelligence) because vampires (greed) are far worse than stupid. The loveless, lifeless parasites are ignorant (dead).
To this day, the hostile alien vampires (greed) continue to wave thier bible around in order to suck the joy out of humans and steal their land.
Vampires (greed) who suck the joy out of life have joined the zombies who eat the futures of their children.
Zombie Apocalypse is here and happening now.
Abigail Pip
August 20, 2021 at 9:01 pm
So many good ideas. I hope some will come true. Why isn’t there a native aerican president? Some of ye aim high and relise this agenda. Go for it!
Stormbrise
August 20, 2021 at 9:26 pm
I love, love, love this Ted talk. I mourn that my knowledge lacks that I cannot identify plants, or certain trees, or my native tongue, because it is a small language group that the last fluent speaker passed away 20 years ago. Also, the kids at boarding schools were also put out as workers for farms and maids, and not paid for it. They called this education, but it was slavery.
Random Dude
August 20, 2021 at 9:59 pm
Smoked salmon pemican that tastes like domino’s Is what I’ve been thinking about for a long time ( i’m scottish heritage so It may or may not be a good idea but younever know?
Marax Aram
August 20, 2021 at 10:25 pm
I love his idea of having restaurants serving actual American food across our land.
Etoine Schrdlu
August 20, 2021 at 11:44 pm
I kept waiting for him to explain how he was starting an “Indigenous Cuisine Rescue” organization that would try to recapture and organise that past knowledge of indigenous foods. It would be a shame not to at least try.
Lowell Boggs
August 21, 2021 at 12:03 am
I thought this was about indigenous foods but what I got was yet another anti – colonization rehearsal of history. OK, white man bad. OK you are mad. I got that – along with everyone else who studies history with an open mind. But what are the indigenous foods?
Thistlethrook
August 21, 2021 at 12:13 am
The land that your ancestors stole from the indigenous population
No One
August 21, 2021 at 12:53 am
Do you Christians still think your faith is the one true religion ?
JimmieOakland
August 21, 2021 at 1:16 am
I feel your pain. Try to find an Irish restaurant sometime.
Joy Austin
August 21, 2021 at 4:03 am
Indigenous people should claim American title if they want. Make everyone else hyphenate their pre American origins.
Si M
August 21, 2021 at 8:49 am
The term European American should be much more common
Sean Kelly
August 21, 2021 at 5:38 am
That is one of the best photos a three sisters mound in full effect.
John Cornelius
August 21, 2021 at 5:47 am
Wow! This is packed with info. Stunning how much is left out of the narrative.
ccm800
August 21, 2021 at 10:00 am
whitemaniffest destiny
ccm800
August 21, 2021 at 10:14 am
wonderful!
positivelybeautiful1
August 21, 2021 at 12:50 pm
We did not know any better then, but now we have so much credible information now. Somewhere in the middle is the truth. Buddhism’s philosophy is based on psychology and science. The Middle Way means, not solid down the middle to compromise. It’s embarrassing the 2 extremes to come to a full circle to compromise (youtube: Shaolin Kung Fu Europe, Master Shi Yeng He). Thank you for your love in educating us, and for your true compassion, the caring of others, especially for us strangers.
positivelybeautiful1
August 21, 2021 at 12:51 pm
Typo: not split down the middle. It’s embracing the 2 extremes.
Al Ultramarathon
August 21, 2021 at 1:10 pm
Best Ted ever
Keeperof Themountain
August 21, 2021 at 1:41 pm
It is interesting to watch. The local tribe here is taking the money from the casino and really putting forth an effort to rebuild the culture. It is a long road back and it has gigantic hurdles to overcome. Alcohol addiction, Drug addiction and the welfare culture that has been fostered by the government for years. I hope they are successful. I know there is more to Native food than a Bison taco on flat bread.
Scooby doo
August 21, 2021 at 2:25 pm
Why aren’t there more Native American politicians after all they were here first
Shnurpy Altf
August 21, 2021 at 4:02 pm
I thought indian food was isopropyl and mouthwash.
Alma M. Rinasz
August 21, 2021 at 4:25 pm
If you get out of the US you will understand indigenous food much better, in mexico you can easily get non-European food.
frepi
August 21, 2021 at 4:49 pm
I hate when someone infers that it was all rosy and peaceful before the arrival of the white man. Natives fought each others long before Europeans came. They invaded other nations territory, killed their ennemies in horrible ways. The Apaches were brought on the verge of total annihilation by the Comanches and had to appeal to the US government for help. So yeah, colonization was horrible and unjust and there is plenty of blame to spread on the government, but to claim that Natives lived in peaceful harmony before Washington is a gross exaggeration.
fugithegreat
August 21, 2021 at 6:15 pm
Wow, what an excellent talk! So much information was shared here in such a short time, and with just the right amount of humor, bitterness, and optimism.
Danielle Capichano
August 21, 2021 at 6:30 pm
2:45 , if neither, because it’s “Classic” American. <3
Pho Q
August 21, 2021 at 6:40 pm
I always thought that all of the foods we eat at Thanksgiving are Native American foods. Well maybe not the stuffing and the candied yams. But turkey and corn are purely Native American foods
Mary Boucher
August 21, 2021 at 6:43 pm
Return the land
Connect the prairies
buy our food from the rightful land owners
Solve poverty
reduce emissions
It’s never been meat or animals that is the problem, it’s industrial agriculture.
Far more grassland than forest has been depleted and it’s been shown grasses take more carbon from the atmosphere.
No tractor, no chemical can farm like the stomach and hooves of grazing animals and the insects that eat their $h!T
Ang Bryant
August 21, 2021 at 7:36 pm
teach it brother!! I love your spirit
Jenny Hammond
August 21, 2021 at 9:17 pm
Thank you for not just memorizing something and reciting it. Most Ted Talks are. You are a good speaker.
BlackSeranna
August 21, 2021 at 9:17 pm
I wish there would be more Native American eateries!
y0nd3r
August 21, 2021 at 10:42 pm
I would love to see Native restaurants.
Boycott Goya
August 21, 2021 at 11:24 pm
Our history is way more than a couple of hundred years and doesn’t start at the Canadian border and end at the Mexican border!
Mr. Royal
August 22, 2021 at 12:30 am
They treat the wheat with RoundUp then we eat the wheat….
Cybrtrk
August 22, 2021 at 12:39 am
“Gender roles”… watch out all the woke liberals are going to cancel him.
Einstein Darwin
August 22, 2021 at 12:58 am
Very informative. I’ve heard that Native Indians were racist themselves.
Joffre Cueva
August 22, 2021 at 2:35 am
100% 👍
Brian Dawson
August 22, 2021 at 3:11 am
Boo hoo. I thought this was going to be about good food, but it’s just another Native American history video. At the end of the day, a massive asteroid is going to kill us all if we don’t exploit technology, and get off this rock. Indigenous peoples had the same amount of time to figure it out as everyone else. They lost the technology race. Too bad, so sad. Non of it will matter when the rock hits. However, I do like me some cornbread.
Shannon Cook
August 22, 2021 at 3:26 am
thank you for sharing this. so much to learn.
flux
August 22, 2021 at 3:33 am
i definitely wish i knew more about the plants and trees around me
Z Gilman
August 22, 2021 at 5:36 am
More power to him and his peoples. !!!!!!
Rick Fryrear
August 22, 2021 at 6:06 am
Never have I been so stunned by a simple fact. I love trying new foods from around the globe, yet never even realized that there could be something so basic and obvious missing right here and now. I live in the Chicago area so I immediately jumped over to Google “native american restaurant “. What did I find? Ads for a vegan chain! Can you post somewhere if any actual nars exist on reservation lands or elsewhere?
J3tzt bassman
August 22, 2021 at 6:34 am
A wonderful dream, chef!
Caribbean Agriculture and Me
August 22, 2021 at 7:18 am
Spectacular! Already making the change. Eat local, eat native! 🥳🥳🥳🙌👏👏👏
spanky9067 walang problema
August 22, 2021 at 12:38 pm
I’ve lived in Arizona for 16 years and all the Native American food I have seen is fry bread, I still don’t have an answer to what is Native American food?
Green Machine
August 23, 2021 at 4:49 am
Fry bread is native American, but also hatch green chillies, Mexican food, corn, turkey, bison, beans, squash, etc.
Sharon Creamer
August 22, 2021 at 3:03 pm
First, I decided it was my land, since you want to go there. Second, your food doesn’t anywhere compare to my food.
Jake M
August 22, 2021 at 3:12 pm
I would love to work in this guys kitchen
Günther Panzer
August 22, 2021 at 3:14 pm
Why aren’t there more Native American restaurants? – Because there’s too much black supremacy in US of A.
Rochelle McDonald
August 22, 2021 at 3:41 pm
The history was not just smudged. It was totally airbrushed.
Bradley Atherton
August 22, 2021 at 4:54 pm
Those tacos looked amazing. I am skeptical of fast talkers, but yeah, I would love to see some more food options like this around.
Bradley Atherton
August 22, 2021 at 8:00 pm
With that being said, diversity is one thing, systematically forcing a unified country into subsections, divided by ethnicity, language/cultural barriers and class sounds like a horrible idea.
tornado649
August 22, 2021 at 4:59 pm
This whole discussion is needed and necessary. I appreciate this history lesson and deeply saddened by these actions
Jose Cabrero
August 22, 2021 at 7:16 pm
Right on man. Let’s start a go fund me and open up some restaurants…i would pay premium for some sustainable elk meat
J Man
August 22, 2021 at 8:25 pm
I always wondered about fry bread.
Alexander Ray
August 22, 2021 at 10:24 pm
It’s pretty interesting just to see what weeds growing in the yard are edible. Purslane, wild lettuce, thistles, dandelions, clover are the obvious ones I’ve seen
Rolando Vera
August 22, 2021 at 10:48 pm
I had always wondered about this. Great talk.
Steve Kemsley
August 22, 2021 at 11:54 pm
Brilliant talk
Stuart Edwards
August 23, 2021 at 5:34 am
Why aren’t there more Native Americans?
Mike J
August 23, 2021 at 2:51 pm
173 down votes from folks that thought this was culturally biased.
Maxtastic101
August 23, 2021 at 5:03 pm
Anything to do with “natives”- engage pity party
Coahuil Tejano
August 23, 2021 at 6:06 pm
there are millions of native american restaurants, but they are called Mexican Restaurants….
Patricia Rouse
August 23, 2021 at 6:09 pm
Human knowledge is the primary target of misogynist conceptual thought.
Peacemaking is the highest human developmental achievement.
No one chooses their parents. It’s what we learn and carry forward that influences future we ourselves will never see.
In this transitory abundant predictable life cycle our own lifespan is all I or you have. Like it or not we share ,what we share is on us.
“Tukasula doesn’t listen with one ear”-Foolscrow
Stefanie Elle
August 23, 2021 at 6:38 pm
I was literally just talking about this with my husband. I follow a lot of Native American channels. I told him that I’d love to try some Native American food like fry bread (lots of fry bread making on YouTube) and really anything that someone would be willing to serve. I loved this TED talk.
George Thompson
August 25, 2021 at 3:12 am
There’s an american indian restaurant in Washington DC, inside the Smithsonian Museum of American Indian. I don’t know if they are opened these days, because of the pandemic, but I remember that the museum gift shop used to sell a book of recipes based on the food served at that restaurant. It must be available online.
daft nord
August 23, 2021 at 8:40 pm
This guy should go on the Joe Rogan for a few hours
Gabe Kubanda
August 23, 2021 at 8:53 pm
Really interesting! Somebody get more hatch chili wine into the stores, it’s hard to get outside of NM!
mishal Adara
August 23, 2021 at 9:05 pm
Changed the course of history, maze giving all those Irish people the knowledge of potatoes which save them from a famine. I have great respect and homage for natives to this land. All my friends are brown and red.
April Morrow
August 24, 2021 at 12:15 am
I’ve followed him on Facebook for a few years and would love to visit his restaurant if I am ever able. His passion for his history is amazing, and his love of unique indigenous knowledge is wonderful.
Cassandra Elliot
August 24, 2021 at 2:36 am
I have a couple of American Indian cookbooks that I studied to gain a better knowledge base. It would have been nice if he talked more about the actual food stuffs and preparation. Or perhaps about how the American Indians drove to extinction many species before they got a clue and started being responsible.
Michael McBride
August 24, 2021 at 12:10 pm
The Mitsitam Cafe at the Smithsonian museum in WDC is a great start to experience Native foods. I wonder if they have some scholarship that can help revive interest in bringing this cuisine to a broader market
Scott Grohs
August 24, 2021 at 2:50 pm
A fast food chain that served exclusively indigenous food would be fascinating. For one thing, each restaurant’s menu would be different, inspiring some people to make a road trip of trying each location. Transportation costs would be at a minimum. Though I would recommend starting in college towns and appealing to the students and instructors.
Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse
August 24, 2021 at 4:39 pm
Wonderful history lesson. Loved the burn at 7:00
Rich Collins
August 24, 2021 at 5:37 pm
Ironically, the Lakota were, themselves, colonialists.
MrYort13
August 24, 2021 at 6:35 pm
He glossed over the land grab the 575 tribes were doing as the Lakota murdered every other tribe in hollowing out the center of the country. But who cares about history when you can make you own.
Sarah Anne O'Moore
August 24, 2021 at 6:49 pm
It’s so hard for my family and I to connect with our Cherokee heritage even though we’ve always lived here in western nc because of things like this. The food, gathering, foraging and any general pre-colonial history just to name a few. Our ‘founding fathers’ crushed hundreds of cultures that we may never really get back. I can’t tell you how much I would love to see indigenous restaurants popping up. Now THAT would be a perfect excuse for a cross country roundtrip!!!
Thom Sisson
August 24, 2021 at 7:00 pm
Fantastic talk. Oh, there’s a cookbook? Yes please!
Andrew Young
August 24, 2021 at 9:36 pm
Where’s the super like button at?
max power
August 25, 2021 at 1:38 am
As some of our Alaskan natives have pointed out, the truly local native diet is not so tasty. Great to source what you can local, but trade over thousands of years has got us to the good stuff. Mind boggling how much of what we’d like to think of as local, originated in South America.
worryphree
August 25, 2021 at 4:11 am
Yayy!!
Minneapolite
August 25, 2021 at 8:05 am
“You call it a weed just because you don’t know what it is.” 💯
Poor Wotan
August 25, 2021 at 8:15 am
Both enjoyed this talk but was disappointed as well. I did enjoy his explaining on how original meals might no longer be around because of the historical facts presented yet I was hoping more for a talk on how those meals are perhaps being rediscovered and what they would look like. What does his menu look like in his restaurant? What kind of seasoning could one expect? I think that would have been interesting.
ally
August 25, 2021 at 9:42 am
i wish everyone i knew would watch this
Robin Crow
August 25, 2021 at 1:15 pm
They haven’t healed yet. Yes. Neither have the descendants of slaves. Neither have women in general, for the thousands of years of domination and marginalization we’ve endured.
How do we heal? First, we need to *see*. We need to acknowledge the trauma, and allow people to process in a safe space. It isn’t about “allowing” people into the dominant culture anymore. We need to change the culture so that it supports everyone.
Such a great talk, I had to come listen again.
Bryan Eberly
August 25, 2021 at 2:02 pm
A chef and a storyteller. Thank you for your voice, cousin. <3
TheOchoa69
August 25, 2021 at 6:06 pm
The future is now
Gnight Owl
August 25, 2021 at 6:11 pm
Big yes
Latoya Lewis
August 25, 2021 at 6:35 pm
Excellent!
Jason Morris
August 26, 2021 at 2:04 am
Cuz smallpox
Ronald Layton
August 26, 2021 at 3:32 am
Because our “Founders” sent brigades of Federal troops and wagon loads of Smallpox blankets and whiskey to all the natives they could find. Sick and hung over we then sent emissaries like Kill Bill Custer and Merrimurder Lewis and Killiam Clark to snipe all the rest who couldn’t run away. Then cowboys and settlers in wagon trains built downtown city infrastructure and monumental iron brick and stone architecture that looked just like the old European architecture from centuries ago on top of their burial mounds and hunting grounds and offered whoever was left of the tribes a nice reservation on the most useless and isolated land that we could find. Yay for America!! USA USA USA ….#1
Andrew Ramos
August 26, 2021 at 3:40 am
Let me save you some time. The speaker does not answer why there is no indigenous restaurants. Please rename the video
Rebecca Green
August 26, 2021 at 5:15 am
“We haven’t had time to heal yet, let alone EVOLVE.” Wow–powerful words to explain the absence of Native restaurants 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Vyl
August 26, 2021 at 6:39 am
This one of the few TEDx Talks I really like
John Phoenix
August 26, 2021 at 8:00 am
We don’t have Native American restaurants because the European expansionist killed your ancestors men, raped their women, and threw the kids into indoctrination programs known as schools. And they added insult to injury by calling the natives savages. I’m sorry this happened to our native ancestors. The biggest problem with this nation is that native culture wasn’t included in the melting pot of ideas. I hate the fact that school didn’t teach us about which plants and animals would give us life and which ones would take it away.
In Thor We Trust
August 26, 2021 at 9:46 pm
Lawns are fucking stupid. True.
Anthony Wall
August 27, 2021 at 4:48 am
I’m getting hungry already. :0
Anthony Wall
August 27, 2021 at 4:53 am
It’s the breaching method/s that didn’t/doesn’t care about everybody, and making/keeping everyone blaming other things, and/or blaming other/s, and/or blaming selves for what it causes/caused. We must understand how our founders did not have free speech like the Native American tribes that didn’t have free speech quality with each other, again, per the breaching method/s, the “predicate acts” delivery system method/s, if you will. I’m not a lawyer. Lawyers were/are also self-valued/defended delusions wrought, and “‘criminally foreign influenced,” too. What needs to be countered most for causing/keeping “predicate acts” had/has nothing to do with physical difference/s. That’s measured/maintained not realized. We need Native “Injunctive Reliefs.” I’m not a lawyer. Their delusions, and uses of their quality of fact treatment nature, like time treatments, it was/is also roles fabricating audio and video and people to faked locations and sequence relationships, all kinds of identity thefts/frauds instances through everyone.
Robert Limanek
August 27, 2021 at 6:39 am
More Native American food, absolutely! I am an American architect who teaches sustainability, so I have some experience with causes. I have two suggestions. I think your talk should be 50% about the sad story and 50% about what a Native American food menu might look like. If it’s too complicated just pick one or two regions from you map and give examples. My other ideas concern how to start. It seems like the best way is with a food truck, like a taco truck, instead of a restaurant. It could be taken to Farmer’s markets, where your likely audience sympathetic to trying “new,” healthful foods might be, or to festivals, wherever. Another place might be to introduce in school cafeterias. A Native American food day once a month? I believe there would be grants for such an endeavor. Good luck!
Karen Abrams
August 27, 2021 at 3:21 pm
Yes. To all of this.
Kirk Gipe
August 27, 2021 at 5:10 pm
As a child in the 60’s we learned about the Indians. We were told they taught the Pilgrims about corn, and how to plant it. They taught us about how the first Thanksgiving was mostly how the Indians helped keep the Pilgrims from starving.
Then I grew up, and found the rest of our history is how we thanked them, by attempting to exterminate them.
Our history, more often than not, makes me sad.
sean
August 27, 2021 at 5:48 pm
No one laughed at his Indian food joke. I thought it was great.
misschelseawilkinson
August 27, 2021 at 9:33 pm
“Kids know more kpop band names than trees, and that’s your fault.” Thank youuu!!
R J
August 28, 2021 at 3:00 am
Then… open more up?? So many NAs seem to want to stay on their reservations. But hardly anyone goes there. Maybe for the ones who have casinos they can try a native themed restaurant? I bet they would do really well in NYC or San Fran or some other big city. So many people are into preserved food and the like these days.
Please feed me waxworms
August 28, 2021 at 3:14 am
Natives weren’t citizens of their own native country until 1924. Wat?
Stephen Hazel
August 28, 2021 at 4:29 am
so ARE there Native American recipes? He didn’t seem to mention any…
Dr Brian King
August 28, 2021 at 5:24 am
so why aren’t there more Native American restaurants?
BigBadBalrog
August 28, 2021 at 11:14 am
Learning more about Indigenous history from a chef trying to understand his cultural roots than I did in 12 years in the Texas public education system. ‘Murica
IEYE360
August 28, 2021 at 11:27 am
This is exactly why we have no Indian restaurants. This guy thinks he is going to give me a history lesson. He needs to talk more about Indian food.
BigBadBalrog
August 28, 2021 at 11:35 am
“Build a pantry that tastes like where you are” is fucking awesome
Anthony Delfos
August 28, 2021 at 12:17 pm
I think native american restaurants will work realy well worldwide. Try it . I realy realy would like to see this happening. Damn !!! Why not? Bison steak , deer , turkey and other wild game. I can taste it already. Just think if we eat bison the population of this animal will explode for where there’s money to made they will help , just like trees if you stop using paper the forests will disepear.
stanhry
August 28, 2021 at 1:42 pm
Disappointed, this was more about anti colonialism then restaurants and food.
Tyler Druskoff
August 28, 2021 at 3:40 pm
I agree on lots of fronts with this like maintaining and evolving native food culture but he was really sure to point out he wants “indigenous-run” restaurants which is kinda racist because he’s implying that no one else should run it because it’s not “meant for them”. If you don’t look at his personal racism then I can get on board with the whole returning to a better style of living thing with locally grown plants and reviving native culture(at least not the cutty cutty stabby stabby bits)
Eric Franklin Shook
August 28, 2021 at 7:10 pm
Haven’t watched this video yet, but I’ve been confronted with this question before, and my answer always was “it’s called Mexican food.”
Roger Komula
August 28, 2021 at 7:20 pm
I went to high school with Ojibwe tribal members and it bothers me that more of them aren’t militant.
TheFlyingCrud
August 28, 2021 at 8:44 pm
This is a fantastic talk! I luckily was taught as a kid about the native plants where I live. I try to pass on that knowledge whenever I get the opportunity. As a bonus, when you go on a hike there is free and delicious food all around you!
freakyp711
August 28, 2021 at 10:14 pm
I’ve actually said that I wish there was an indigenous restaurant near me. We live within the Chickasaw Nation. I would love to experience some of the Chickasaw food from before the Trail of Tears that brought them to Oklahoma. Even though I am not from the indigenous people here, I have a great respect for the indigenous peoples. Sometimes the old ways were better after all.
BleueSky南法 Mer
August 28, 2021 at 11:18 pm
Native Rock!!! I am in, where can I learn moreeeee
smilingnsingin
August 28, 2021 at 11:23 pm
191 users would rather buy k-pop on iTunes than plant a tree.
T KC
August 28, 2021 at 11:49 pm
I went on the Sierra Service Project when I was younger. It was a church-based project to help out on reservations by building or repairing houses. While we were there, the residents decided to thank us by inviting us to an amphitheater and showing us some native stuff (it was a long time ago, don’t remember much) and giving us some native food. It was a little awkward for me personally, because I felt like we were there to do work, not be entertained, but it happened and of course I didn’t want to refuse their hospitality. They gave us what they called “Indian Tacos” or something. It was different for me. A few years later, similar products became available nationwide at Del Taco/Taco Bell and were called “gorditas.” Kind of a strange memory, but hey, it did leave a memory. In recent years, I learned succotash is a Native American dish but my exposure to that is limited to Loony Toons. I would love to have a chance to eat Native American food and support Native American businesses; it is really screwed up that many Native Americans are still in such a bad spot. I’d also like to see Native American cooking expanded to include new techniques, technology, and ingredients, although maybe it already has.
The Channel of Ultimate Destiny
August 29, 2021 at 12:21 am
This guy reminds me of fred armisen.
Barbie Mcgowan
August 29, 2021 at 12:25 am
I have been struggling to find native american recipes…. I found out fried bread happened because of colonialism…. I wish there was a native american camp we could go stay at
Darren Severine
August 29, 2021 at 6:14 pm
Heard, Chef. I’d wash dish for you any day. What a fantastic talk.
Mary Williams
August 29, 2021 at 6:22 pm
😀
Dinger Head
August 29, 2021 at 6:58 pm
There is a vacant movie theater with a kitchen in my city…
Deborah Franza
August 29, 2021 at 7:20 pm
I love it👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
VictoryRoseArt
August 29, 2021 at 7:42 pm
Lawns started out as a status symbol, it’s expensive to establish one, and expensive to maintain. I much prefer wild clover, it feeds the rabbits, the deer, and my chickens and ducks.
eagledove9
August 29, 2021 at 8:19 pm
I have chronic fatigue, so this project will never actually happen, but I have wanted to have a restaurant or store that sold edible wild Native American plants, the kind that aren’t cultivated.
SilverSithWitch
August 29, 2021 at 8:43 pm
More of this!!!
e schwarz
August 29, 2021 at 8:52 pm
kind of world wide pattern, where if native people were listened to and their knowledge granted deserving respect; so many environmental disasters and crises could have been avoided. Now climate change is the grand ultimate insult.
James Scott
August 29, 2021 at 9:20 pm
It’s called Mexican food
Israel Kanz
August 29, 2021 at 9:44 pm
true
CypyCup
August 29, 2021 at 10:55 pm
Man, greta thorberg didn’t age well
Benny Pika
August 29, 2021 at 11:04 pm
yes, it’s fking weird that there isn’t so many native american’s restaurant and fast food.
Joseph Cernansky
August 29, 2021 at 11:09 pm
so I’m 1/3 into this video and haven’t heard a damn thing about food, restaurants, or indigenous cuisine!! Nothing but Click bait…..I know all about the conquest of the Americas and feel for those people. My own people had to deal with that same thing for many more centuries than any American Indian has. Except, other Indian tribes conquered and colonized other tribes in the Americas themselves and captured and traded slaves too. They even had African slaves themselves down south!! I stopped watching click bait…get the the message in the title or go away.
RamDragon's Art Studio
August 29, 2021 at 11:27 pm
When he says, repeatedly, “We need to learn,” he was including all of us who live on the American continent and not just descendants of Indigenous Folks. The total lack of true history taught in school, particularly in US History classes, has bothered me since I was old enough to understand why using the term “Indian” for the indigenous peoples was racist. Somewhere around 6th or 7th grade.
kumari de silva
August 29, 2021 at 11:49 pm
this guy is awesome. The next time someone asks me what’s wrong with the maiden on land o lakes butter I’ll refer them to this – and oh my he’s right about Hawai’i. People need to learn Spam is not native Hawai’ian food
lettuce boi
August 29, 2021 at 11:57 pm
Just from reading these comments I know I’m going to like this guy
Brett Benson
August 30, 2021 at 12:16 am
What an amazing, informative presentation. Good form Sean!
stu pidjerk
August 30, 2021 at 12:26 am
cool but i turned off the video when he slipped “gender roles” in there
Lainey Bug
August 30, 2021 at 12:34 am
I would kill for a good place I could go and get some 3 Sister’s soup & Fry Bread & Wild Rice! My state is known for corn so I have no shortage of that! Would love a supply of Bison & Elk/Venison and the various native wild flora instead of monoculture farming. My Grandma always told me there was no such things as weeds, just wildflowers without a home…
Robert Flask
August 30, 2021 at 12:37 am
The idea of “I came here and now I own it” isn’t a white thing, it’s a human thing.
This “well were going to talk about North America because…” is just a highly transparent rewording of “I want to ignore all the rest of human history because it’s inconvenient to my story”
Daniel Wang
August 30, 2021 at 12:42 am
Whoever calls the US “the food capital of the world” must be either high or dumb
Greg Elliot
August 30, 2021 at 12:51 am
I was really hoping for ore details on indigenous foods. I’d love to find a native restaurant…
piousaugustus84
August 30, 2021 at 1:01 am
There’s a native American restaurant in Denver called Tocabe that I would love to try. But I don’t even live in Colorado. 😭
Binh TC Nguyen
August 30, 2021 at 1:02 am
There is only one Native American cafe in my city, far from my neighborhood and where I work, and I want more.
BrandRaptor
August 30, 2021 at 1:25 am
I always wanted to know more about my native heritage I want to know what foods my grandfather ate, but my family has no idea, he never told anyone and took it to the grave… but to be honest he probably didn’t know ethier
That why I’m learning about foraging and how to start a garden
Perfo Rongo
September 3, 2021 at 12:44 am
I went to a local Ojibwe casino a while back to eat at a very fancy restaurant. So fancy in fact that their Sous Chef had their own office with a plaque on their door. I only briefly looked at it and I thought the plaque actually said “Sioux Chief”, and I was confused, I thought “Aren’t we on an Ojibwe reservation?”
Lucas Peacock
September 3, 2021 at 2:55 am
Indian school 24 is just down the street. Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial School. The Grave of Chief Shaw-Shaw-Nay-Beece is close at hand. I have wandered those school grounds and that cemetery and wondered just how many children were hidden away in the soil of that place. The city wanted to tear it down so bad, hide it away. They built a state home on the site to hide the Indian school behind. They tore the old home and training school down almost ten years ago but the Indian School still stands.
nypala
September 3, 2021 at 6:32 am
Dai, Crozza levati le treccine, sei ridicolo.
MC
September 3, 2021 at 8:18 am
Kinda clickbait when i dont get to learn anything about actual indigenous food but the effect of colonialism.
Shoo
September 3, 2021 at 10:01 pm
He answered the titular question and provided a ton of info on indigenous food tho. How’s that clickbait?
Robert De Leon
September 3, 2021 at 9:48 am
Mexican food is technically Indian food. Or Indian-ish, posole and tamales very Aztec.
boy_dirrt
September 3, 2021 at 10:15 am
Lawns the original peasant tier flex
Ben Dover
September 3, 2021 at 11:23 am
It’s like he forgets that even Europe was colonized, just by other Europeans lol. Rome was a thing.
Major Problems
September 4, 2021 at 1:54 pm
It is like most everyone forgets that we, like it or not, evolved in the rift valleys of east Africa and walked everywhere else. People migrated from the very beginning. The only difference is that later they used horses and ships instead of their feet.
Maleine Perle
September 3, 2021 at 11:24 am
Colinialism is still happening. Like Israel in Jordania. Why do we not learn from history?! sigh.
Surfin Bird
September 3, 2021 at 2:51 pm
This is a very skewed retelling of history. It omits the wrongs committed by various native american tribes. tribes that peacefully coexisted continued to exist.
Rellik Laires
September 3, 2021 at 5:04 pm
Because they in the rez. (Keep ‘em there if you ask me)
D Kirk
September 3, 2021 at 5:24 pm
Culture produces food traditions… The reason why those traditions are gone is that culture was destroyed, like the buffalo. Purposeful. Time to talk native reparations.
Joseph Shepherd
September 3, 2021 at 7:48 pm
So absolutely terrible, my heart goes out.
Joshua Starkloff
September 3, 2021 at 8:37 pm
Studying the native tribes that are now unfortunately extinct should be more prominent in our education.
T J
September 3, 2021 at 9:52 pm
I have to say, when he said “wiped off the land during the 1800’s due to all the colonialism.” that is fairly disingenuous and I say downplays the effect the Spanish incursions had. To put this into perspective, smallpox ravaged the Americas ten times worse than the black plague. It’s assumed that of the tens of millions of native americans that probably lived at the time 95 PERCENT DIED. How is a culture supposed to survive that? Who is Going to tell the young ones stories when there is no one to teach them? When there are no elders alive, when there are just the last remaining tiny holdouts of the people’s alive with no form of writing what culture is going to survive that? There was so much culture in America that was stamped out and obliterated that no one ever even got to see or hear first hand.
Arundhati Tillu
September 3, 2021 at 10:20 pm
This guy is such a great story teller. As a person south Asian, I forget that America was one of the first European colonies
Pretty Guardian
September 3, 2021 at 11:20 pm
Definitely some food for thought in this one
Stacy Braiuca
September 4, 2021 at 12:52 am
Aho!
tox 1c
September 4, 2021 at 1:47 am
Simple answer: it tastes horrible.
DarthPickley
September 4, 2021 at 4:30 am
in the columbian exchange europeans incorporated foods from the americans into their diets. we use tomatoes, potatoes, corn, squash, beans, all the time. but i guess there wasn’t really a lot of interest in preserving authentic recipes
evanthebouncy
September 4, 2021 at 11:40 am
i had mexican food, does that count?
Get back to work
September 4, 2021 at 2:57 pm
Mexico: … okay (Saitama face).
Diego Zavala Xed
September 4, 2021 at 5:00 pm
I learn more about my father’s identity every day… Wish I was more invested at a young age- let alone educated.
M P
September 4, 2021 at 6:54 pm
As a forager I respect this
jtofgc
September 4, 2021 at 8:35 pm
Every Mexican restaurant is a Native American restaurant.
bacchusacolyte
September 4, 2021 at 10:31 pm
The truth is, that native food was not that good in North America. Food with only native ingredients is not very exciting. The food culture of the old world was much more developed by the time settlers arrived because of the robust trade networks spanning Europe to Asia. While there was some trade in North America, tribes were mostly self sufficient and did not import goods from far away. You did see more trade in the areas where a strong empire formed (i.e. Aztec, Mayan, Incan) and thus it is not a surprise that these areas have a stronger native food culture.
Byronic Fate
September 5, 2021 at 2:33 am
I love this man.
Pol Pot 2024
September 5, 2021 at 4:33 am
Why on Earth would there be? I don’t see many Swedish restaurants either, even though 60% or so percent of the populace has Scandinavian ancestry…
TED, showing it’s a tool of the wealthy.
Alacaster Soi
September 5, 2021 at 6:14 am
cause there aren’t many native americans
K. A.
September 5, 2021 at 7:47 am
Wow, really powerful speech.
I am studying psychology and we learned about epigenetics. It is really sad how traumatic events can change your epigenetics and can get passed on to the next generations.
OracleOcelot
September 5, 2021 at 12:31 pm
Such an awesome talk. Shows how food IS history and how food shapes history
Good Vibrations
September 5, 2021 at 4:06 pm
Hot take, If there was something of value, it would have already been exploited.
Aktipan Tolstoy
September 5, 2021 at 4:23 pm
Amazing talk! Thank you!
ForMeToKnow 1
September 5, 2021 at 5:37 pm
We need to find a better term, humans in America are an invasive species, definitely not native or indigenous. They are the descendants of the survivors of prior waves of migration, not even the first.
Zuckerton
September 5, 2021 at 5:41 pm
Food teaches us more about culture and history than Statues ever could.
Luv Ljuba
September 5, 2021 at 6:10 pm
This decolonized a lot of braincells
Aj Cadwallader
September 5, 2021 at 9:58 pm
Agreed…lawns must be killed and eaten seasonally
Heather Lee
September 5, 2021 at 10:19 pm
Just dropping facts about US history
hackbodies
September 5, 2021 at 10:33 pm
I have to disagree with the 1800s being the deadliest. That era for indigenous peoples was more like a post apocalyptic war for survival.
The truly deadliest era was during first contact, the 14th and 15th century, disease wiped out something like 80% of the native population, we are talking millions. Tribes that white people had never even seen were wiped out, empires that we are just learning about collapsed.
MariYah Israel
September 6, 2021 at 12:19 am
Everything he is saying makes sense. EXCEPT: The same colonial structure (government) declared it illegal to grow your own food or even have a community food garden in 2012 under Senate Bill S-505 under Obama administration.
BlackKnightJack
September 7, 2021 at 4:35 am
If nothing else, the irony of this guy being named Sherman is very entertaining.
The color yellow
September 7, 2021 at 4:53 am
supply and demand
Johnny Bevo
September 7, 2021 at 7:30 am
Probably has something to do with they were all killed off.
Dominik Eber
September 7, 2021 at 7:32 am
What the guy says should be taught in schools around the globe. Living in germany and it is laughable how much knowledge on plants and stuff we lost. Most people do not even know how to make bread which is one of the easiest things to do.
ninny65
September 7, 2021 at 9:37 am
You eat pemmican and horse meat
Colin Smith
September 7, 2021 at 11:18 am
This guy absolutely rocks. So many great points made here.
dot calm
September 7, 2021 at 3:09 pm
your people have been robbed
daniel LEVY
September 7, 2021 at 7:52 pm
wow thats a good point, come to think of it , i don’t even know of a Native American dish
TheGoodLord
September 7, 2021 at 8:56 pm
On George Washington comments: They are not incorrect but keep in mind that native North-Americans were not and are not a monolith; each tribe make different alliances, some sided with the British and suffered retaliation, others with USA and were kept as allies (until USA betrays them eventually but George Washington is out of the picture by then).
Joshua Vaughn
September 8, 2021 at 12:04 am
“Native American Land”, I get so tired at the empathy milking and the attempt at shame. Which Native Americans? Which tribe? What about before them? Or before them? What? There were Viking settlements in the Americas? Yeah? Then what about the land they built on? Who’s was it before them? Who did they buy it from? There are no native Americans there are many native Americans and they fought each other as much as we fought them. Time to wake up white man, not all peoples feel guilty like you do when you call out their Satanic evils.
K60
September 8, 2021 at 2:33 am
8:08 Guys does this sound familiar to whats happening now?
George Leddy
September 8, 2021 at 4:32 am
I’m sorry that he uses a “laundry list”. Pick one or two and give them the deep dive. When I was a UC Berkeley student I heard a talk by a native American professor on the hydrologic cycle and a Ginko tree on Strawberry Creek. It was brilliant. One tree, a very big story!
Max Kim
September 8, 2021 at 4:59 am
in my opinion, they should be asking the asian aunties who goes to the mountains to gather wild edibles. my family is korean and we tend to do that. they understand how and where they can be used. so when it comes to plants and mushrooms, ask them. might give you a hint to how they could have been used.
bbird a12
September 8, 2021 at 7:55 am
Not only is this common sense, but this is future technology as we get rid of petroleum based supply chain and industrial farming that makes it less expensive to ship food from long distances, and also uses up all of our water and requires noxious chemicals to kill insects and fertilize used up land. Local sustainable farming will also get rid of unemployment as industry automates and uses less human labor. This could even inform hydroponic farming if we use that method for large city centers.
Joe Phillips
September 8, 2021 at 1:37 pm
Started off great, but toward the end it sounds like he is asking for more laws, and government control. Be careful what you wish for. When the government is taking resources from people and distributing it to other people, problems will occur.
Adrian Heffelman
September 8, 2021 at 5:18 pm
I really can name more kpop bands …
Cema Ashley
September 8, 2021 at 8:08 pm
What a wonderful talk. Thanks for sharing.
Mark Greiser
September 8, 2021 at 8:43 pm
How about you post a Menu and some recipes and see if it’s a hit? If not, add more salt.
Kate
September 8, 2021 at 9:02 pm
This is a great vision
Frogwell
September 8, 2021 at 10:36 pm
the last residential school ended in 1996… the canadian genocide ended in 1996 and no one cares
S G
September 9, 2021 at 4:25 am
This guy is pretty dumb about food for a chef. EVERYONE KNOWS that modern food culture was developed as a consequence of the spread of regional foods, especially spices, world wide.
Thus, Italy is associated with the tomato, which is of course a Native American food. The Irish are associated with potatoes … which again, are a Native American food. Pineapple, which is eaten all over the world … yes, it comes from Native Americans.
Furthermore, the notion of discovery is legit. If this chef ever gets his act together, he should HOPE that people DISCOVER his restaurant. No, it doesn’t mean that the he didn’t create the restaurant, but when people who don’t know about something find it, they DISCOVER it.
So many TED talks are just utterly … bad.
Yunho's Wifeu
September 9, 2021 at 5:00 pm
“Your kids can name more K-pop bands than they can trees.”
Sir, please-
Fckytggl Mthrfckr
September 9, 2021 at 7:09 pm
For me this question immediately makes me respond “because white people killed most of y’all”
Sparky Mularkey
September 9, 2021 at 7:55 pm
My mother was sent to a boarding school in the 60s and it was horribly traumatic. She forgot our language and now we’re both trying to relearn it. It breaks my heart to know that there was so much knowledge that was lost. I feel like a refugee in my own nation.
XxToxicGodxX The legand
September 9, 2021 at 9:11 pm
“Everywhere you go your on Native American land” 💯💯💯💯💯💯
ZephaniahNoah
September 10, 2021 at 6:02 am
“Lawns are stupid” that’s what I’ve been saying!
harry loo
September 10, 2021 at 8:53 am
US, the country founded by genocide and built with slavery. Truly shining beacon of freedom and democracy.
the artist formally known as craig lastname
September 10, 2021 at 11:00 pm
Because they own casinos instead?
Helle's Belles
September 11, 2021 at 2:11 pm
I would think it’s HARD to get bison pemmican and maize/acorn mash integrated into the USDA approved food supply chain, unless you are Ted Turner.
Cat Ko
September 12, 2021 at 2:15 am
I have his book! I’m so excited he got a TED talk!
devmentorlive
September 12, 2021 at 4:30 am
My grandmother was Cherokee and Choctaw. She said, meat, cooked, but not english cooked. During the day, pick small roots and fruits…. That is Cherokee cuisine.
Jann Guerrero
September 12, 2021 at 6:39 am
I want delicious food, not Schindler’s List.
J5L J5L
September 12, 2021 at 4:07 pm
I agree 100%! I categorized the food I grew up on as “Midwestern Bland.” There was a fort an hour away from us that used to have a weekend of celebration. I don’t remember much but it was basically Native American culture music crafts and the thing I remember best was the fry bread. Oh my God! I would burn down at Krispy Kreme just wanted those again, lol. Totally kidding ;-P additionally, like gay pride month and hopefully what Juneteenth will become… Cultural appreciation events, I believe I really need it in the USA. Sometimes the system segregates us and sometimes we self segregate to be with what’s more familiar and comfortable. But it’s also human nature to want to try new things, in this country is not the happiest place on earth melting pot of celebration of diversity that it could be. But because of this, we have so much promise to work with. This isn’t my phrase, I heard it somewhere, it was something like “Integration not Acculturation. Meaning that people are living, educating, working going to restaurants and events together but we don’t have to not melt into one big boring glob of sameness. At this point in my life, I don’t have the energy to research and organize and that were full of people to gather and advertise events diverse neighborhoods that might not even speak the same language to help people feel welcome and to be a welcomed and respected piece of our national puzzle. Even if the groups of people have been here for hundreds of years but didn’t come here voluntarily, we all know what I mean. Even if the groups of people have been here forever and we need to say “Sorry” before they can say “Welcome.” Just some thoughts for groups of people with energy and younger than me that have hearts of compassion for all peoples and the earth we share together. Thank you for this Ted talk:)
Grayson DuBose
September 13, 2021 at 12:25 am
idk why don’t you start some