Susan Strauss

Susan Strauss is a storyteller of natural history themes. She has given performances for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Monterey Bay Aquarium, most National Parks (including a video on the Wolf in Mythology for Yellowstone National Park), US Botanical Garden, Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh, Sydney Botanical Gardens, Salmonoid Restoration Conference, International Conference on Heritage Preservation (Scotland, England, Australia & Hawaii) and nature school education in Holland, England and Sweden. Long before Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) became recognized, she was interested in how scientific principles of natural history revealed themselves in indigenous mythologies of many world cultures. She started her work by researching and telling Native America traditional stories and expanded to telling stories form Chinese, Japanese, Nordic, Greek, German, Hassidic, Sufi, Central & South American and African stories. She has given performances on the mythology of wolves, coyotes, bears, frogs, birds, trees, plants in general and is currently developing more on the theme of water and marine life.