Welcome back. This is Andy, and this is the Poor Proz Almanac. In this episode, we actually have two guests that join us to talk about

food sovereignty. Linda Black Elk and Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass, she kills, join us to talk about

food sovereignty in the northern United States. Linda Black Elk is an indigenous ethnobotanist

who focuses on food sovereignty and making foods and medicines accessible.

She works heavily with the United Tribes and the Indigenous Environmental Network.

She also works as a food sovereignty coordinator at the United Tribes Technical College.

Her second guest, Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass, Kills, is the food sovereignty director at the

Nuita Hittata Sahinch College, where she also works to teach about food sovereignty.

So this is a really unique and special episode because we get an opportunity to talk with

some folks that are doing real meaningful work and address some of the issues that I don't think

become quite apparent

for most of us across the country as we talk about conversations around food sovereignty and

land back. So hopefully you guys enjoy this episode. And if you do, please give us a review on

iTunes or Spotify.

Linda, Ruth, thanks so much for taking some time to chat with us.

Starting with Linda, can you guys tell us a little bit about your work?

Sure.

Thanks so much for having us on today.

I'm Linda Black Elk.

I'm the Food Sovereignty Coordinator at United Tribes Technical College, which is the tribal college that's

in Bismarck, North Dakota. So there's a series of tribal colleges in the United States.

Roof, you probably know how many exactly there are at this point. I'm thinking it's upwards of

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