UM News Service
MISSOULA –The 猎奇重口 will host a free community lecture titled “An Evening with Sean Sherman, The Sioux Chef” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, in the University Center Ballroom and online. The event is the 2026 Brennan Guth Memorial Lecture in Environmental Philosophy and part of UM’s President’s Lecture Series.
The event is co-sponsored by UM Campus Dining, the Native American Center of Excellence and the Davidson Honors College. ASL interpretation will be provided and a livestream link will be available closer to the event.
A member of the Oglala Sioux tribe, Chef Sherman was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. His focus is on the revitalization and evolution of Indigenous foods systems throughout North America. Through his activism and advocacy, Sherman is helping to reclaim and celebrate the rich culinary heritage of Indigenous communities around the world.
Sherman has dedicated his career to supporting and promoting Indigenous food systems and Native food sovereignty. His goal is to make Indigenous foods more accessible to as many communities as possible through the nonprofit North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems and its Indigenous Food Lab, a professional Indigenous kitchen and training center.
Working to address the economic and health crises affecting Native communities by re-establishing Native foodways, NATIFS imagines a new North American food system that generates wealth and improves health in Native communities through food-related enterprises.
In 2017, Sean published his first book with author Beth Dooley, “The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen,” which received the James Beard Award for Best American Cookbook in 2018. He also is the recipient of the 2019 Leadership Award from the James Beard Foundation.
In 2021, Sherman opened Minnesota’s first full-service Indigenous restaurant, Owamni by The Sioux Chef, which received the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant in America for 2022. Most recently, Sherman was honored among TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2023. He also was named recipient of the ninth annual Julia Child Award for culinary activism and innovation that year.
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Contact: Dave Kuntz, UM director of strategic communications, 406-243-5659, dave.kuntz@umontana.edu.