Sean Sherman outlines next chapter in food sovereignty work

Sean Sherman released a new cookbook, “Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America,” and is preparing to expand his food sovereignty work, according to reporting by the Mpls.St.Paul Magazine. The cookbook documents Indigenous foodways across North America, organizing them into regional frameworks rooted in precolonial ingredients, practices and ecological knowledge.

Sherman is also planning to open a new Indigenous barbecue restaurant called Šhotá and expand operations of North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems. The projects will be based in a Minneapolis building known as Wóyute Thipi, which will house a commissary kitchen, event space and food production for institutions. The magazine reports that the work aims to strengthen Indigenous-controlled food systems and support Native producers while increasing access to traditional foods.