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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[@abdullahibnrinibnpoat2059]

Much love to Linda Black Elk Laaa e laaha ill lal laaw ( there's no God but the God) blessing for you from Muslim Khmer Battambang

[@Zeronohigher]

Peace & yes!!!! Thank you all so very much!! Recently a site tried to bully me into not tasting the wild herbs that grow in my backyard !! I’m a black & Native woman who adores plants & wildlife too & honestly your words ring resounding truth!! Thank you all!!

[@SevenGenFund]

Thank you for sharing!

[@1HorseOpenSlay]

When you find a small patch of medicine plants, gather the seeds. Take them to other areas and even parks. Plant them. Harvest a small amount for yourself, but leave the roots and stems. These plants want to flourish, and they will on their own and with your protection, love and help.

[@bobbilynngibson302]

Thank you so much for this video. It explains so much that puzzled me before. I was wondering why Rosemary is a total favorite and sacred for me. I prefer Rosemary to Sage while my Choctaw husband is attracted to Sage and holds sacred reverence for it. Thank you for being examples of holding reverence and gratitude for plants. Your example helps me to hold reverence, respect, and gratitude also.
What an amazing cap Christopher Peters. ⚘

[@WatermelonPeppermint]

doesn't like the term herbalist because it's too Western... It uses ethnobotanist which is also just as Western, including the language she's using? who does she think makes the academia she cites???