Speaker: Native Science, #NoDAPL, and Action for Changing Times
Date and Time
Monday Apr 17, 2017
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM MDT
April 17, 2017 4:00 PM
Location
Jacket Legacy Room, Black Hills State University Student Union
Fees/Admission
Free admission
Description
Linda Black Elk (Catawba Nation) will provide a brief introduction to Native Science and discuss its applicability to the “No Dakota Access Pipeline” water protectors movement. Linda Black Elk Linda (Catawba Nation) is an ethnobotanist specializing in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food and medicine. Linda works to protect food sovereignty, traditional plant knowledge, and environmental quality as an extension of the fight against hydraulic fracturing and the fossil fuels industry. 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 is a lecturer in science education at Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, North Dakota. Join us for an afternoon of enlightening discussion on Monday, April 17th at 4PM at the Jacket Legacy Room in the Student Union