Tinp’si’na is still being harvested by Nakota families as a traditional food source and medicine
Tinp’si’na is still being harvested by Nakota families as a traditional food source and medicine

A woman in a jean jacket and ribbon skirt poses with her teenaged sibling, who is wearing a dark t-shirt and light sweatpants with a cowboy hat, while holding each a wild turnip plant, which is a flower that has a big bulb at the bottom.

Wild turnip picking has been a tradition spanning generations in some Nakoda and Lakota communities. Families will go out on the lands together and dig up and harvest wild turnips in the month of June which are then used for food and medicines.