Native Pulse: Food is Medicine with Linda Black Elk

Today on Native Pulse, we consider the vital roles of Traditional Foods and
Medicines in the Covid-19 Pandemic and how they also relate to our overall
health and wellbeing as Indigenous Peoples. Ethnobotanist Linda Black Elk
(Catawba) gives us insight into how we can start and maintain a healthy
intergenerational relationship to our Traditional Foods and Medicines.
Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist specializing in teaching about culturally
important plants and their uses as food, medicine, and materials. Linda works to
build hands-on curriculum and ways of thinking that will promote and protect food
sovereignty, traditional plant knowledge, and environmental quality. Linda takes
the mantra “food is medicine” very literally, teaching classes on simple ways to
incorporate “edible medicinals” in to everyone’s diet. She has written for
numerous publications, and is the author of “Watoto Unyutapi”, a field guide to
edible wild plants of the Dakota people. Linda is the mother to three Lakota boys
and serves as the Food Sovereignty Skills Instructor at United Tribes Technical
College in Bismarck, North Dakota.
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