Salish Plant Society aims to help native people learn about traditional food sources
Rose Bear Don’t Walk is a longtime resident of the Flathead Reservation and is a descendant of the Bitterroot Salish and Crow tribes. After receiving a Bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale University, she returned home to get her master’s in environmental studies at the University of Montana. (Courtesy photo)
From the rolling plains of Montana to the high alpine region of the Bitterroot mountains, there is a rich diet to be found.
Ethnobotanist Rose Bear Don’t Walk said she wants to reconnect Montana’s Bitterroot Salish people with foods they’ve depended on for thousands of years, after they were forcibly pushed to the side for a more Western diet...
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