Linda Black Elk provides education on local edible plants at workshop

Photos by Jaida Grey Eagle


Stinging nettle grows wild on the Louisville Swamp Trailhead in Shakopee, Minnesota, on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. Linda Black Elk used these plants as an example of Indigenous knowledge of medicine during her “Foraging for Edible Plants” walk for the Native American Nutrition Conference at Mystic Lake Casino. (Photo by Jaida Grey Eagle)

Linda Black Elk (Cotawabi Nation) explains the intricacies of stinging nettle during a ‘Foraging for Edible Plants’ walk for the Native American Nutrition Conference on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, on the Louisville Swamp Trailhead in Shakopee, Minnesota. (Photo by Jaida Grey Eagle)

(Photo by Jaida Grey Eagle)

A mushroom foraged by participants of Linda Black Elk’s “Foraging for Edible Plants” walk on the Louisville Swamp Trailhead in Shakopee, Minnesota, on Sunday Sept. 15, 2019. (Photo by Jaida Grey Eagle)

A participant enjoys a mushroom picked during Linda Black Elk’s “Foraging for Edible Plants” walk on the Louisville Swamp Trailhead in Shakopee, Minnesota, on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. (Photo by Jaida Grey Eagle)

A participant picks a mushroom during Linda Black Elk’s “Foraging for Edible Plants” walk on the Louisville Swamp Trailhead in Shakopee Minnesota on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. (Photo by Jaida Grey Eagle)

Linda Black Elk, ethnobotanist from the Cotawabi Nation explains how plants were used by Indigenous people prior to colonization during her ‘Foraging for Edible Plants’ walk on the Louisville Swamp Trailhead in Shakopee, Minnesota, on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, for the Native American Nutrition Conference. (Photo by Jaida Grey Eagle)

Sumac is stowed away in a participants bag from the “Foraging for Edible Plants” walk for the Native American Nutrition Conference led by Linda Black Elk on Sept. 15, 2019. (Photo by Jaida Grey Eagle)

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