If you're from Boston, then you might have been born on the land of the Massachusetts tribe.

If you're from Dallas, Texas, then you might be from the land of the Anadarko people.

And if you're from the Bay Area, then you might be from the land of the Anadarko people. And if you're from the Bay Area, then you might be from the land of the

Oloni people. My point is, we in the US are all living on Native American lands, and

throughout this land, we have all types of restaurants representing cuisines from all over the world.

And I bet a lot of you have been to a bunch of those restaurants in different parts of this country.

But I'd also be willing to bet very few of you have ever been to a Sherman, aka the Sioux Chef, that's on a mission to change that.

And you can get a taste of that change at his restaurant or one,

where Sean serves up his decolonized plates.

Decolonized meaning they don't use any of the ingredients that Europeans introduced to North America

that excludes a whole lot of things things that many of us consider ultra-American foods like

dairy, weed, sugar and pork.

My name is Vodalaire and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's

strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today we head to a woman where Sean Sherman is on a mission to reclaim heritage and culture through cuisine.

More after this. You're going to be. As the Mississippi River runs through the heart of Minneapolis, it passes through St. Anthony Falls,

and almost 50 foot waterfall that's been damaged over time. And this damage came from the mills and this

damage came from the mills and tunnels that were built in the late 1800s.

But way before the colonial settlement by Europeans,

Dakota people lived along this waterfall.

In the Dakota language, which is the original peoples that lived here,

the waterfall was named Awmny Yamny, which meant place of the falling swirling water.

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