LINDA BLACK ELK on What Endures After Pandemic [ENCORE] /293

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🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Linda Black Elk originally aired in April of 2020. On this week’s episode, we speak to Linda Black Elk on traditional medicine, community wellness and systemic transformation amidst pandemic. Our conversation begins with hands-on measures we can take to boost our wellbeing and what honorable harvest looks like during times of panic. How can we deepen our actions so that they are no tjust a response to fear, but are rooted in the promise of collective wellbeing? In addition to these questions of right now, Ayana and Linda discuss what will be left in the wake of COVID-19, how will we tend to the wounds of disposability? What systems will endure? What must we dismantle and what will we grow?Music by Matti Palonen & Chris Pureka.Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action pointsSupport the show

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0:52.0	Hello and welcome to For The Wild Podcast. I'm Ayeon Ayeon.
0:56.4	Today, I'll be speaking with Linda Blackelk from the Kataba Nation.
1:02.1	I mean, I hate to say it this way, but maybe if we'd shown greater respect for the micro,
1:06.8	we wouldn't be dealing with a pandemic virus right now.
1:10.4	So I think that restoration ecology can sort of be a guide for how we relate to the planet,
1:20.3	how we relate to our mother earth in the future.
1:23.6	First, listening and understanding and developing the relationship,
1:27.9	and then looking at ways that we can actually rebuild and restore and experiment.
1:38.6	Linda is an ethno-botnist specializing in traditional foods and medicines of the Great Plains.
1:44.4	She is currently the director of Food Sovereignty at United Tribes Technical College in
1:49.2	Bismarck, North Dakota, and is the mother of three Lakota sons.
1:55.8	Well, Linda, thank you so much for joining us today. Like I was mentioning, this is a dream come
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