Arts & Culture

MN Reads: "The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen" by Sean Sherman and Beth Dooley

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published November 23, 2017 at 10:00 AM CST

On this Thanksgiving Day, Sioux (Oglala Lakota) chef Sean Sherman is being treated by his family.

Today, he doesn't have to cook.

Instead, he can muse about the holiday and the way we can rewrite the old mythologies, talk about the vibrant indigenous cultures alive and well all across the country, and admit he doesn't mind doing dishes one bit.

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Arts & Culture MN Reads local food Native American Beth Dooley Sean Sherman The Sioux Chef Indigenous Food

Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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