Community Resilience with Linda Black Elk & Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills

In this episode, we're joined by Linda Black Elk & Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills to discuss food sovereignty, seed rematriation, food systems collapse, and how social media plays into these conversations. What does the future hold for our food systems and how do we move forward from the current state of colonialism?

 

Linda Black Elk (Catawba) is an ethnobotanist specializing in traditional foods and medicines of the Great Plains. She is currently the Director of Food Sovereignty at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, ND, and is the mother to three Lakota sons. She can be found on Facebook at Linda Black Elk, or on Instagram @Linda.Black.Elk

 

Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills (Hidatsa, Mandan, Dakota,
and Nakota) is the Food Sovereignty Director at the Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College.

 

 

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