Ethnobotanist Linda Black Elk: Botany and Art | Art to Preserve Culture and Tradition

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Ethnobotanist Linda Black Elk: Botany and Art | Art to Preserve Culture and Tradition

Linda Black Elk is passionate about plants. Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist and professor of ethnobotany and science education at Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, North Dakota and recently she traveled to the Cansayapi Oyate (the Lower Sioux Indian Community) to share her knowledge of medicinal plants with students there.

Two lesson plans for grades 9-12 are included as gallery assets and in the Support Materials.

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PBS Learning Media