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- So they're gonna 
be like lemonade?

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- Mm-hm, it's gonna be kind 
of tangy, kind of sweet

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and it'll be kind of light pink

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from the red color 
of the berries.

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- [Chloe] Ooh, light 
pink, my favorite color.

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(Nico laughs)

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- My name is Nico Albert, 
I'm a Cherokee Nation citizen

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and I'm a chef here 
in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Today, I'm taking my 
step-daughter Chloe

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to an urban wilderness area 
and we're gonna go pick

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some sumac to make 
Indian lemonade.

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It's incredibly important 
to pass these recipes

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and these food traditions 
down to future generations.

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Food is so strongly 
tied to memory.

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When you sit down at a table 
and you eat certain foods,

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you can remember those foods 
that you ate as a child.

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And these foods 
that we're making

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are memories from the 
generations before us

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and they'll carry on to 
generations in the future.

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(light-hearted percussive music)

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I picked this wild 
sumac today to make

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what we call Indian 
lemonade or sumac lemonade.

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The Cherokee people 
are originally from

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the Eastern Woodlands area.

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With the Trail of Tears, they 
were removed to Oklahoma,

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which at the time 
was Indian territory.

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They were put into a new land 
where they were not finding

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the same plants that 
they were accustomed to.

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But there are still 
some similarities 
in what you can find

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in the wild here in Oklahoma, 
one of those things is sumac.

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So the outside of this berry,

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has a red shell that has a 
little bit of a fuzz on it,

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and that has this really tangy 
astringent kind of flavor.

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And so when you 
soak it with water,

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it creates this beautiful, 
tangy, refreshing drink.

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(water splashing)

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And I'm just sweetening this 
with a little bit of honey.

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And this'll take a 
little bit of the edge

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off the really tart flavor 
that these berries add.

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(spoon clanging)

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(water burbles)

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(water burbles)

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(light-hearted percussive music)

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And that's sumac lemonade.

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(ice rattles)

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Yeah, that's good.

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Okay, here ya go.

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Alright, cheers.

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Sumac lemonade.

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(Chloe giggles)

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(light-hearted percussive music)