Keynote presentation on Friday evening:
by Peter David
Peter David is a wildlife biologist with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and
Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC). Originally from Green Bay, Wisconsin
(where he once sold hot dogs at Packer games), he received BS and Master Degrees in Wildlife Ecology from UW-Madison before heading north to work for GLIFWC, which was only in its third year of existence at the time.
There his education in manoomin (wild rice) really began, spurred in
large part by the tribal elders and ricers who shared their Traditional
Ecological Knowledge regarding this cultural and ecological treasure.
More than 30 years later his relationship with manoomin continues to
expand, as a steward, researcher, harvester, small time finisher and
dedicated consumer of wild rice. When not in a rice field, you might
find him and his wife Lisa picking wild blueberries in the barrens,
boiling down sap or hunting for black trumpets!
by Peter David
Peter David is a wildlife biologist with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and
Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC). Originally from Green Bay, Wisconsin
(where he once sold hot dogs at Packer games), he received BS and Master Degrees in Wildlife Ecology from UW-Madison before heading north to work for GLIFWC, which was only in its third year of existence at the time.
There his education in manoomin (wild rice) really began, spurred in
large part by the tribal elders and ricers who shared their Traditional
Ecological Knowledge regarding this cultural and ecological treasure.
More than 30 years later his relationship with manoomin continues to
expand, as a steward, researcher, harvester, small time finisher and
dedicated consumer of wild rice. When not in a rice field, you might
find him and his wife Lisa picking wild blueberries in the barrens,
boiling down sap or hunting for black trumpets!
Keynote Presentation on Saturday Evening:
by Linda Black Elk
Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist specializing in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food, medicine, and materials. Linda works to build hands-on curriculum and ways of thinking that will promote and protect food sovereignty, traditional plant knowledge, and environmental quality as an extension of the fight against hydraulic fracturing and the fossil fuels industry. Linda takes the mantra “good is medicine” very literally, teaching classes on simples ways to incorporate “edible medicinals” in to everyone’s diet. 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 serves as the Food Sovereignty Coordinator at United Tribes Technical College.
by Linda Black Elk
Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist specializing in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food, medicine, and materials. Linda works to build hands-on curriculum and ways of thinking that will promote and protect food sovereignty, traditional plant knowledge, and environmental quality as an extension of the fight against hydraulic fracturing and the fossil fuels industry. Linda takes the mantra “good is medicine” very literally, teaching classes on simples ways to incorporate “edible medicinals” in to everyone’s diet. 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 serves as the Food Sovereignty Coordinator at United Tribes Technical College.