However, Indigenous cuisine is equally at risk as any other part of the Native American heritage.
And despite his extensive culinary knowledge, he knew only a handful of recipes that were truly Lakota.
As a teenager, he worked for the U.S. Forest Service in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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Hoping to change the food landscape, he started researching.
Native American recipes, like most ancestral knowledge, are handed down from generation to generation.
His studies inspired him to create his own company calledThe Sioux Chefin 2014.
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These are all ingredients it’s possible for you to see just standing in the forest and glancing around.
Nevertheless, the cooking techniques are contemporary.
We’re not cooking like it’s 1491.
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We’re not a museum piece or something like that.
If we can control our food, we can control our future.
This is an Indigenous evolution and revolution at the same time.
