Indigenous Food Systems & the Zombie Apocalypse with Linda Black Elk — WildFed Podcast #128

In this episode:

Linda Black Elk | Indigenous ethnobotanist

Podcast discussion:

  • Introducing Linda

  • Eating foods that nourish on a cultural level

  • Building a relationship with our food

  • Practicing reciprocity and reverence with wild foods

  • The status of traditional indigenous knowledge

  • Preparing for the zombie apocalypse

  • Regaining traditional skills and the value of community

  • Finding the love in a world gone mad

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Meet Linda Black Elk

 
 

Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist specializing in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food and medicine. Linda works to build ways of thinking that will promote and protect food sovereignty, traditional plant knowledge, and environmental quality as an extension of the fight against hydraulic fracturing and the fossil fuels industry. Linda and her family have been spearheading a grassroots effort to provide organic, traditional, shelf stable food and traditional Indigenous medicines to elders and others in need. Linda has written for numerous publications, and is the author of “Watoto Unyutapi”, a field guide to edible wild plants of the Dakota people. Linda spends her time foraging, hiking, hunting, and fishing on the prairie with her husband and three sons, who are all members of the Oceti Sakowin. Linda currently serves as the Food Sovereignty Coordinator at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Instagram @linda.black.elk

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