Interior of Owamni Restaurant, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 6, 2025

Sean Sherman, a member of the Oglala Lakota nation, found success as an executive chef, and channeled that into advocacy for indigenous foodways as The Sioux Chef. He earned several James Beard awards for his leadership, for his first cookbook, The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen (2017) and for the restaurant Owamni, owned by the not-for-profit North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS).