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This week's guest is Jose Gonzalez, who is the founder of Latino Outdoors, co-founder of The Outdoorist Oath and the inaugural Equity Officer for the East Bay Regional Park District in California.  Jose is an accomplished professional educator focused on Equity and Inclusion whose work brings together frameworks and practices in the environmental, outdoor and conservation fields. He uses a range of sources and mediums including illustration and memes to share his ideas and the science with others.  If there is one theme for this episode, it's about how we can challenge our existing mental models to rethink our relationship with nature.  For some of us that might mean exploring other cultural worldviews where nature might exist as a familial relationship, rather than one of just resource and recreation.  For others it might be simply considering the privilege of access and participation in spaces where our cultural makeup is the dominant one.  And for all of us, it is a chance to embrace the example of biodiversity in nature and the more-than-human world as an example of the diversity in the outdoor community we want to create.  Thanks so much to Jose for taking time to chat. His wisdom and humor is really appreciated in what can often be a tough and thorny subject area. Make sure to follow Jose on Instagram - link in our show notes - to get all of your new favorite nature-inspired puns and memes. Be on the look out for mentions of thriving meadows and a Thursday favorite - Olmos Friday.  Links Jose Gonzalez on Instagram Jose Gonzalez Website Latino Outdoors The Outdoorist Oath 'Healing Severed Connections' by Jose on Medium 'Decolonize, Ecologize, Indigenize, Joyify' by Jose on Medium

In this episode, we speak with Janice LaFloe, a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and Executive Director of the Montessori American Indian Childcare Center (MAICC) in St. Paul. Janice shares her remarkable journey from being a Montessori parent to establishing one of the largest Montessori centers dedicated to American Indian children. Her passion was sparked by witnessing her son's education rooted in love, respect, and child-centered learning. We explore what makes the Montessori approach at MAICC so unique, and how the center has evolved to Indigenize its practices to better serve Native communities. Janice also discusses the center's exciting expansion plans and its ongoing success. We wrap up by learning more about Janice's personal interests, including spending time walking in nature, engaging with her community, and sewing. Join us for a thoughtful conversation on education, culture, and community with an inspiring leader. 

Today we have a special bonus episode for you from our sibling show Unreserved, a fearless space for Indigenous voices. Host Rosanna Deerchild is ready to Indigenize your summer with a tastemaker's guide to the best books, movies, podcasts and more. More episodes of Unreserved are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/qKyKgTHk

Today we have a special bonus episode for you from our sibling show Unreserved, a fearless space for Indigenous voices. Host Rosanna Deerchild is ready to Indigenize your summer with a tastemaker's guide to the best books, movies, podcasts and more. More episodes of Unreserved are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/mytJJc-H

Today we have a special bonus episode for you from our sibling show Unreserved, a fearless space for Indigenous voices. Host Rosanna Deerchild is ready to Indigenize your summer with a tastemaker's guide to the best books, movies, podcasts and more. More episodes of Unreserved are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/JYTlJqbX

Today we have a special bonus episode for you from our sibling show Unreserved, a fearless space for Indigenous voices. Host Rosanna Deerchild is ready to Indigenize your summer with a tastemaker's guide to the best books, movies, podcasts and more. More episodes of Unreserved are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/u2dCcads

www.missingwitches.com/indigenous-futures-2024-part-3-stewarding-tearshttps://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2024/ About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world. Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people. Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused the government of using foreign aid to fund terrorists and dictators in a speech to caucus Sunday. Plus, Montreal's Concordia University is seeking to “decolonize and Indigenize” every aspect of its academic curriculums and pedagogy. And Kelowna hopes that a temporary “tiny home village” will help provide housing to the city's growing homeless population. Tune into The Daily Brief with Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Lindsay Shepherd! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode I talk with Natalie Benally (Diné) about her film, “Indigenize the Plate” at a screening hosted by Tiny Grocer ABQ in Old Town Albuquerque. We talk about her journey to Peru for the film and how that inspired her to remember and revitalize traditional family ways of growing and eating. She's the founder of Tse'Nato', a digital storytelling company.

The work right now is to Indigenize, not colonize. Our lives depend on it. Sending blessings and copal incense to all my incandescent iris lilies and perspicacious pelicans! Thank you for dropping in.This episode is all about standing ground, staying transparent, and cultivating deep strength. It's getting hard out on these streets. While people with money flock into Phoenix and set up shop in the boujee parts of town doing whatever the fuck, the situation down here in the South side, in the historical La Sonorita Barrio, remains intense. Urban ghettos in the empire are systematically and intentionally kept rough through corrupt and sneaky urban planning, and fuckery of all sorts is allowed to operate in the low-income areas of the empire's urban centers. Who is actually running this show? Why isn't there accountability for certain assholes while other people get targeted and profiled? The news is lying to you. Full stop, people. Wartime propaganda. The reality:  media blackout right now in Palestine. Journalists have been getting shelled. So while the Gaza Strip, blessed be everyone in there, is having who knows what done to it, nobody is being allowed to see what's going on. At this point it's nearly impossible for people inside to communicate with the outside world. Why would a certain sort of fuckery not want any media coverage whatsoever while they do their dirty work, and while Americans are distracted dressing up and getting drunk and eating candy?  Today, November 1st, is La Dia de Los Angelitos: Day of the Little Angels. A day where the people of Mexico and much of the Americas honor the spirits of departed babies and children. I pray with all my heart and soul for the safety of the Palestinian kids. Who are all of our kids. As adults, we have to look after the kids. Otherwise, in my mind, we don't even have the right to call ourselves human. TRACKLIST FOR THIS EPISODE AWAKE NATION: Super Positive 528Hz Energy and Aura in Your HomeSelf Healing Collective - Let Go and Trust the UniverseLos Miticos Del Ritmo - Otro Muerde el PolvoAncestral Music Label - Aztec Indigenous Ancient MusicLos Angeles Azules, Nicki Nicole - Otra Noche (Fair Use Edit: Slowed & Verbed)Los Socios Del Ritmos - Vamos A Platicar (Fair Use Edit: Slowed)Avenging Angel is an original poem by Little Raven. All rights reserved. LINKS: https://www.curanderismo.org/post/tonantzin-tlalli-our-lady-of-guadalupe-a-bridge-of-light-between-cultureshttps://www.theyucatantimes.com/2021/12/tonantzin-the-deity-behind-our-lady-of-guadalupe/Support the showIf you dig the pod, check out the adjacent video & livestream show Barbarian Yak Fest w/ Dr. Sylvie & Deus ex Machinist on Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/BarbarianYakFestFind me on IG: barbarian_noetics Become a Beloved Patron: patreon.com/noetics (unlock bonus content plus win a Dream Interpretation)Direct Donate on PayPal @barbarian.noetics@proton.me or Cash App@ $BarbarianRavenOne time donation: buymeacoffee.com/noetics.Spread the word and tell a friend. Remember to set the BNP on Auto Download after you subscribe. I appreciate you all.Let's Activate the human spirit! FAIR USE DISCLAIMER:Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 allows for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, education and research."The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Air Date 9/13/2023 This eye-opening episode will explore the complex web of colonialism, disaster capitalism, and climate change is ravaging Native Hawaiian communities. We explore how corporations and privatization going back to annexation have exacerbated wildfires, water scarcity and housing issues in Hawaii. We also discuss the role of tourism and its impact on local culture and resources and learn how community-led mutual aid efforts are offering a glimmer of hope for the unhoused and those struggling to reclaim their ancestral lands. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Members Get Bonus Clips and Shows + No Ads!) Join our Discord community! Related Episodes: #1401 That is a Texas-Sized Climate Disaster You Got There #1546 Exist, Resist, Indigenize, Decolonize: A story of colonialism, cultural renaissance and modernity SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Plantation Disaster Capitalism: Native Hawaiians Organize to Stop Land & Water Grabs After Maui - Democracy Now! - Air Date 8-18-23 We speak with Hawaiian law professor Kapuaʻala Sproat about the conditions that made the fires more destructive and what's yet to come for residents looking to rebuild their lives. Ch. 2: Why Maui burned - Today, Explained - Air Date 8-15-23 Hawaii's landscape has been rapidly changing for the last 200 years thanks to plantations, tourism, and climate change. A reporter and climatologist explain how those factors fueled one of the worst wildfires in US history. Ch. 3: We are concerned for you. - Read Choi - Air Date 8-4-23 A skit imagining a discussion between an elite property owner and a Native Hawaiian Ch. 4: Disasters at every turn - Native America Calling - Air Date 8-28-23 Officials are still sorting out the human and financial toll of the unprecedented fire on Maui. Many Native Hawaiians remain missing, hundreds more sustained serious damage to their homes and businesses. Ch. 5: “We're Living the Climate Emergency”: Native Hawaiian Kaniela Ing on Fires, Colonialism & Banyan - Democracy Now! - Air Date 8-11-23 We speak with Kaniela Ing, national director of the Green New Deal Network and seventh-generation Kanaka Maoli, Native Hawaiian, about the impact of this week's devastating wildfires and their relationship to climate change. Ch. 6: As Fires Destroy Native Hawaiian Archive in Maui, Mutual Aid Efforts Are Launched to Help Lahaina - Democracy Now! - Air Date 8-11-23 In Lahaina, the area in west Maui that is of historical importance to Indigenous people, entire neighborhoods were wiped out by this week's historic wildfires, including the Na 'Aikane o Maui Cultural Center Ch. 7: Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent press coverage of the Maui fires and the climate crisis - CounterSpin - Air Date 8-25-23 Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent press coverage of the Maui fires and the climate crisis. Ch. 8: Wildfires - This is Democracy - Air Date 9-5-23 This week, Jeremi and Zachary are joined by guests Randy Denzer and Dr. Alison Alter to discuss the increasing incidence of wildfires in the United States and what efforts have been made to mitigate them. MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S) Ch. 9: Relationships, Money, and Maui Tourism - The Amanda Seales Show - Air Date 8-18-23 Is Tourism helpful to the Hawaiian Islands? Is the tourism industry a byproduct of the colonization of Hawaii? Ch. 10: How Native Hawaiians have been pushed out of Hawai'i - Bianca Graulau - Air Date 2-7-23 Native Hawaiians are struggling to afford to live on the land that was once stolen from their ancestors. FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 11: Final comments on the need for better systems to respond to predictable disasters MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com

Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K. This week we welcome back from the Lilwat Nation in British Columbia, Leeroy Joe will be in in our spotlight. He is the frontman for his band “The Spiritual Warriors.” Their new album has just been released “Indigenize,” a mix of Indigenous Roots, Rock and Reggae. Read all about them and hear their music on the at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org/past-sho…warriors. Enjoy music from The Spiritual Warriors, Chris Ferree, Criolo, Ecuador Manta, Ed Koban, Toko Tasi, Latin Vibe, Aysanabee, Logan Staats, Graeme Jonez, QVLN, Michael Franti, Dustin Harder, Alexis Harder, Shylah Ray Sunshine, Melody McArthur, Raye Zaragoza, Bluedog, Hataalii, Lacey Hill, Blue Mountain Tribe, Chantil Dukart, John Paul Hodge and much, much more! Stop over and visit our new website www.IndigenousinMusic.com and take a look around and visit our SAY Magazine Library featuring our guests.

The speakers discuss how they are working with Tribes and First nations in the US and Canada and how they are elevating TEK in academia, research, and government. They specifically discuss the growing movement of TEK within the Ecological Society of America (ESA), the world's largest community of professional ecologists. Ultimately, we encourage everyone to explore ethical space and learn about Indigenous policies to create more reciprocal collaborations between Indigenous and Western sciences. We encourage everyone to join the TEK Section movement in ESA and support these strategies throughout the world.

Join us, as we delve into the brilliant mind of Indigenous illustrator, cosplayer, comic book creator, Indiginerd, and organizer of áyACon, Denver's new Indigenous arts convention (www.ayacondenver.art). As a Sičangu Lakota/Tsalagi woman, we are going to learn more about how she is helping to Indigenize the space of fandom, heroes, comic conventions to be more about kinship, support, multiracial unity, and Indigenous liberation.Website: https://www.badhandillustrations.art/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/napesica

What role does youth engagement play in leadership development? What role does it play in building relationships and meaningful careers? Host Sam Bird speaks with veteran youth engagement expert Jocelyn Formsma, CEO of the National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC) about how her extensive experience on youth councils led to her on path to leading a national organization.     In addition to leading the NAFC, Jocelyn is a Board Member of the Indigenous Bar Association, Advisor to the Ontario Indigenous Youth Partnership Project and on the Board of Trustees for the Canadian Museum of Human Rights.    Our theme music is from Minou-Pimatiswen by Nigel Irwin and the Chippewa Travellers. Supplemental music provided by Nagamo Publishing.  If you enjoyed this episode, we'd love for you to share it with others and give it a five-star rating. Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast and sign-up to our newsletter to be notified about our next podcast series. Miigwech for joining us on this journey. Young People Know is a co-production between Indigenous 150+ and the Mastercard Foundation EleV program. To learn more about the Mastercard Foundation EleV Program, and the voices and visions of Indigenous young people visit our website EleV: Taking Flight Together and sign up for our newsletter.  You can also follow EleV on our socials: Instagram Facebook Twitter Linked In To learn more about Indigenous 150+ and the Indigeous 150+ media training opportunities please visit their website and sign up for their newsletter.  You can also follow Indigeous 150+ on their their socials: Instagram Facebook Twitter Linked In Don't forget to subscribe and be notified when we drop our next series! A transcription of Episode 5 is available here. Baamaapii!

How are young people reforming practices within youth councils? How have Indigenous young people led policy change that has improved the lives of Indigenous people and Canadians more widely?  How are youth creating systemic change in the institutions they are a part of?   Host Sam Bird explores these questions with a range of youth leaders including: Riley Yesno - Former member of the Prime Minister's Youth Council, and former Student Trustee with the Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board (Anishinaabe, Eabametoong First Nation). Brandon Montour - Concordia University Young Alumni Council, McGill University Faculty of Law - Faculty Council (Kanien'kehá:ka from Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake). Autumn LaRose-Smith - President of the Provincial Métis Youth Council & Former USask Student Union President (Metis). Tutchone Dunfield - Former member of the Provincial Youth Council for Métis Nation of Alberta (Métis & Cree). Brian Pottle - Former President of the National Inuit Youth Council  (Inuit from Nunatsiavut).  Darian Baskatawang - Former member of: Premier's Council for Youth Opportunities, Independent First Nations Youth Working Group, Ontario First Nations Young Peoples Council.  (Anishinaabe, Whitesand First Nation) A copy of the MOU between U of Saskatchewan and the U of Sask Student Union discussed in the podcast can be found here. Young People Know is a co-production between Indigenous 150+ and the Mastercard Foundation EleV program.  Our theme music is from Minou-Pimatiswen by Nigel Irwin and the Chippewa Travellers. Supplemental music provided by Nagamo Publishing and Andrea Menard. Other featured artists include Justin Delorme, Mimi O'Bonsawin, David R. Maracle, Silla, and G.R. Gritt. If you enjoyed this episode, we'd love for you to share it with others and give it a five-star rating.  To learn more about Indigenous 150+ and the Indigeous 150+ media training opportunities please visit our website and sign up for our newsletter.  You can also follow us on our socials: Instagram Facebook Twitter Linked In Thanks for tuning it! Baamaapii! A transcript of Episode 3 is avaialble here!   .

Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K. This week we welcome back from the Lilwat Nation in British Columbia, Leeroy Joe will be in in our spotlight. He is the frontman for his band “The Spiritual Warriors.” Their new album has just been released “Indigenize,” a mix of Indigenous Roots, Rock and Reggae. Read all about them and hear their music on the at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org/past-shows/the-spiritual-warriors. Enjoy music from The Spiritual Warriors, Chris Ferree, Criolo, Ecuador Manta, Ed Koban, Toko Tasi, Latin Vibe, Aysanabee, Logan Staats, Graeme Jonez, QVLN, Michael Franti, Dustin Harder, Alexis Harder, Shylah Ray Sunshine, Melody McArthur, Raye Zaragoza, Bluedog, Hataalii, Lacey Hill, Blue Mountain Tribe, Chantil Dukart, John Paul Hodge and much, much more! Stop over and visit our new website www.IndigenousinMusic.com and take a look around and visit our SAY Magazine Library featuring our guests.

Four guests join Tiokasin in a roundtable discussion for the full hour. Jonathan Gonzales was born in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico and grew up in southern California. He has spent the last 12 years learning earth living skills and ancestral ceremonial ways with many teachers and elders, combined with participating in Indigenous, earth-based ceremonies along with a quest to connect more deeply with his ancestral lineage, which is Indigenous Taino from Puerto Rico, Chinanteco from Mexico, and African). Dioganhdih Hall, Mohawk of Akwesasne, is a Haudenosaunee community member and a two-spirit multi-disciplinary artist based in their traditional homelands in so called "upstate NY." Their medium of expression weaves between ancestral food cultivation, storytelling, community organizing, hip hop lyricism, beat production and sound engineering. Their primary focus of their work is claiming space for Native folks to re-Indigenize and find movement and joy in the interconnected liberation of our bodies, spirit and land. Dioganhdih is currently working on a food sovereignty project in the Hudson Valley called Iron Path farms (@ironpathfarms). Rad Pereira (they/them) is a queer trans (im)migrant artist and cultural worker of Pindorama, Abya Yala (Brasil) building consciousness between healing justice, system change, reindigenization and queer futures. They are based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn) and Haudenosaunee territory (northern Hudson Valley). They are Director of Engagement & Impact at NY Stage & Film. They are building a Native led food sovereignty and world building project called Iron Path Farms. They are a solidarity economy organizer working across platforms, communities and industries. @______rad___. Kapi`olani A. Laronal, MA, Ed., is a descendant of the Haida (Eagle Clan, Sgwaa Gitanee, People of the Tall Grass), Tsimshian, Native Hawaiian, and Filipino. Kapi'olani's experiences working with Native communities on ocean and land restoration projects, cultural preservation, and protocols have significantly shaped her academic and professional life. She is an educator, athlete, life coach, and consultant. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor Music Selections: 1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song) Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters Album: Tahi (1993) Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand) (00:00:22) 2. Song Title: Wicked System Artist: Fundamental Sound Album: Mirror of Time (2007) Label: Weaving Libra Records (00:29:40) 3. Song Title: The Happiest Days of Our Lives Artist: Pink Floyd Album: The Wall (1979) Label: Columbia Records (00:54:35) 4. Song Title: Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 Artist: Pink Floyd Album: The Wall (1979) Label: Columbia Records (00:56:28) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. 

Air Date 3/4/2023 Today, we tell a story of colonialism, dispossession and cultural renaissance as a lens through which to understand alienation, a primary condition of modernity Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com  Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Get AD FREE Shows and Bonus Content) Join our Discord community! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: The annexation of Hawaii The dark history of the overthrow of Hawaii - TED-Ed - Air Date 2-17-22 U.S. Apology Bill to Hawaiian People - EarthWorldSolutions - Air Date 11-02-12 Ch. 2: Scottish clearances and economic displacement The Highland Clearances of Scotland - Pilgrim Kat - Air Date 1-22-23 Why Can't Hawaiians Afford To Live In Hawaii? - AJ+ - Air Date 1-20-22 Ch. 3: White people, Indians and Highlanders White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America (Affiliate link) Ch. 4: Cultural and linguistic erasure The Banning of the Hawaiian Language - Noʻeau Woo-O'Brien - Air Date 12-07-19 Aloha Aina - Indigenous Life in Hawaii - Captain Potter - Air Date 11-26-21 Two Worlds - weRnative - Air Date 11-22-19 Ch. 5: Red Power, the American Indian Movement and the Siege of Wounded Knee What is the Red Power Movement? - Fusion - Air Date 6-2-17 Wounded Knee siege - Witness History - Air Date 2-27-23 Ojibwe Author David Treuer on Retelling the History of “Indian Life Rather Than Indian Death” - Democracy Now! - Air Date 2-22-19 Ch. 6: Cultural renaissance of Hokulea Papa Mau: The Wayfinder - OiwiTV - Air Date 4-14-17 Ch. 7: Cultural renaissance of GalGael Birdman of Pollok/Curaidh na Coille - BBC - Air Date 12-28-19 The Highland Clearances of Scotland - Pilgrim Kat - Air Date 1-22-23 The Fight To Take Back Hawaii - Foreign Correspondent - Air Date 5-11-22 Hawaiian Language Ban - Barry Shell - Air Date 5-17-08 Ch. 8: re-Indigenization in Scotland Alastair McIntosh - The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - Air Date 1-3-23 Ch. 9: Connecting with Aina in Hawaii Aloha Aina - Indigenous Life in Hawaii - Captain Potter - Air Date 11-26-21 FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 10: Final comments on the single story of the values that drove colonialism and continue to shape our world MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Activism Music: This Fickle World by Theo Bard (https://theobard.bandcamp.com/track/this-fickle-world) Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent SHOW IMAGE:  Description: The words “exist & resist & indigenize & decolonize” on top of each other in white, lowercase letters on a black background. Credit: “exist & resist & indigenize & decolonize” by dignidadrebelde, Flickr | License: CC by 2.0 | Changes: Slightly cropped and increased size of credit watermark   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Listen Anywhere! BestOfTheLeft.com/Listen Listen Anywhere! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse hosts another monthly roundtable. His guests tonight are Christian Matute Sagbay, Rad Pereira and Dioganhdih Hall. Christian Mature Sagbay incarnated on the lands currently referred to as Gualaceo, Ecuador. Not too long ago it was kichwa/kañari territory. This recognition of land and language has drawn Christian to the work of language justice. He is currently exploring this avenue of healing while keeping in mind the need for future generations to decolonize themselves through expansive and yet connective land-based principles. Rad Pereira (they/them) is a queer trans (im)migrant artist and cultural worker of Pindorama, Abya Yala (Brasil) building consciousness between healing justice, system change, reindigenization and queer futures. They are based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn) and Haudenosaunee territory (northern Hudson Valley). They are Director of Engagement & Impact at NY Stage & Film. They are building a Native led food sovereignty and world building project called Iron Path Farms. They are a solidarity economy organizer working across platforms, communities and industries. @______rad___. Dioganhdih Hall, Mohawk of Akwesasne, is a Haudenosaunee community member and a two-spirit multi-disciplinary artist based in their traditional homelands in so called "upstate NY." Their medium of expression weaves between ancestral food cultivation, storytelling, community organizing, hip hop lyricism, beat production and sound engineering. Their primary focus of their work is claiming space for Native folks to re-Indigenize and find movement and joy in the interconnected liberation of our bodies, spirit and land. Dioganhdih is currently working on a food sovereignty project in the Hudson Valley called Iron Path farms (@ironpathfarms). Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor Music Selections: 1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song) Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters Album: Tahi (1993) Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand) (00:00:22) 2. Song Title: Jungle Artist: Tash Sultana Album: Notion EP (2016) Label: Lonely Lands Records (00:27:30) 3. Song: Mother Earth Artist: SOJA Album: Peace in a Time of War (2002) Label: SOJA Music (00:54:47) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. 

When Hilding Neilson isn't studying exoplanets or teaching students at Memorial University, he's considering the night sky from a cultural perspective. As an astronomer and a member of the Qalipu Mi'kmaw First Nation, Hilding works to Indigenize astronomy - from pushing for more diversity behind the microscope, to changing the colonizing words often used to describe our interactions with outer space.

Although the holiday season has arrived, we believe that re-indigenizing your life is a all-year long practice. We wanted to spend this episode shining a light on our indigenous communities fighting every day to regain sovereignty, and take a look at what indigenous joy looks like. We chat with Two-Spirit community leaders, Victoria/Victor, Batul True Heart, and Kenta while at the Indigenous Red Market in Oakland to find out what wellness means to them and how indigenous and non-indigenous folks can incorporate traditional practices in their own lives. We hope to honor those that historically have not had a voice, while also bringing you information and tools to both de-colonizing and re-indigenizing your life. Hope you enjoy! OUR GUESTS: Kenta @kenta.chumil (all pronouns except He/Him) Victoria/Victor @creative_mudafukah (They/Them but All are Welcome), Shuumi Land Trust @sogoreatelandtrust Batul True Heart @maasomedicina (They/Them/Aapo) Maaso Medicina Store

When I heard from Bioneers about a new children's book about the story of Thanksgiving, written by Native authors, complete with curricula for elementary school students – I signed up for their presentation right away. Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with two of the authors, Alexis Bunten and Anthony Perry.If you too have wanted to share a more accurate, more complete story of Thanksgiving with children - appropriate for their ages - you're going to love Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story. It's co-written by three Native authors, including Danielle Greendeer, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Citizen, Hawk Clan.The story is told from the perspective of Corn (Weeâchumun), and emphasizes human relationship with the plants and animals who feed us, and the generosity and care we can show by feeding each other.(And, my dreamers and dreamworkers will love this: Weeâchumun sends dreams to the First Peoples, urging them to help the hungry newcomers.)To me, the Great Turning toward a life sustaining society requires us to take a deep look at our history. Especially for those of us without direct access to the wisdom of our indigenous ancestors, it requires learning from more life-sustaining societies, past and present. As a mother of elementary school aged children, I relate to the authors' perspective that the stories we tell young children shape their views of themselves and the world around them. This means we can participate in the "shift in consciousness" dimension of the Great Turning by sharing books like Keepunumuk with our kids.Click Play now to hear me, Alexis, and Tony explore:how the mainstream Thanksgiving story landed with Tony and Alexis when they were childrenways we can decolonize and indigenize our own Thanksgiving celebrationsthe cultural shift toward recognizing and respecting the Indigenous peoples of North Americathe authors' choices about gently mentioning the history of colonization, pandemic and genocide among Native American people, before and after the first Thanksgivingcontemporary food issues, including the challenges and the possibilities around reconnecting with what we eatand curriculum resources for children in elementary through high schoolI loved hearing the care that both Alexis and Tony have for children and families of all backgrounds, as together we face the challenges of these times. I'm grateful they've written this book, and hopeful it will nurture a deeper understanding of our history, and our interconnection with the life that feeds us, and with one another.Show notes with links to more resources, and to connect with Alexis and Tony: turningseason.com/episode23Healing Season: leilaninavar.com/healingseason***Turning Season Podcast brings you regular doses of Active Hope in The Great Turning, our adventure toward a life-honoring, life-sustaining way of being human on Earth. Every Full Moon, we share a deep conversation with people playing their own unique part in this shift. On the New Moons, we share brief, heartening news stories. This show is for every one of you who's awake to our multiple crises, feels your love for life on Earth, and chooses to participate in cultivating ways of life we can believe in, making a life-honoring present even in the face of an uncertain future.Turning Season is hosted by Leilani Navar, a facilitator of the Work that Reconnects, an acupuncturist and dreamworker, and a believer in the power of conversation.Music by East Forest.turningseason.com

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.  Tamee Livermont Brings Indigenous Values to Health Care Education and Policy Today Leah and Cole chat with Tamee Livermont MPH (Oglala Lakota Nation). Tamee is on her way to becoming an MD at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Duluth and is one of three recipients of the 2022 Morris K. Udall and John S. McCain III Native American Graduate Fellowship in Tribal Policy. Before going to medical school, Tamee served as the Tribal Liaison at the Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board. Tamee brings her knowledge of Indigenous values and tribal policy to her work and studies. She wants to Indigenize the medical education system and defend treaty obligations while creating better healthcare systems that are centered around Indigenous values. Chi-Miigwech to Tamee for sharing with us today!  Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at https://minnesotanativenews.org/

Are you thinking about making your side hustle your full-time work? If so, when's the best time? Today's guest has some words of wisdom to share.   Len Pierre is Coast Salish from Katzie First Nation and is an educator, consultant, TEDx Speaker, social activist, and traditional knowledge keeper. Often times we choose a side hustle because we are striving for an additional source of income, or we know that our current full-time work is just not what we want to do for the long term. But in the case of Len, I truly believe that what began for him as a side hustle, is actually blossoming to be his life's work.  I met Len by way of one of my side hustles! After nurturing his side hustle for a year and a half, he quit his secure, government pension, full-time job, in order to grow his business. That's gutsy! Now leading a team of 15 people, he scrambles to keep up with demand. He's got a lot of knowledge to share about what it takes to create a successful side hustle and when and if to make it your full-time work. Be sure to catch the wrap up at the end of the show, where I drill down on 2 key takeaways from what Len shares. One will inspire you to reach out for advice, and the other will cause you see the distortion behind the feeling that you get when you think you can't do something that you really want to achieve.  What You'll Hear: 03:30 Len describes his Indigenous leadership, innovation, & transformation consulting group 04:16 A pivotal moment - A tsunami of clients  06:20 Len's first side hustle attempt 09:28 A short prayer before going on stage (Note to Listener: Do your version of this before your next presentation) 11:09 First side hustle fell through the cracks 13:11 Someone found his side hustle website!!! 14:22 How the pandemic helped grow Len's side hustle 15:03 What it means to Indigenize 17:55 Giving up a pension and government-funded 9-5 job 18:58 The experience of finally quitting your 9-5 21:41 The moment Len made the decision to quit his corporate job 24:33 How a moment in my story and Len's are so aligned 26:50 Keeping up with demand, the most important element of growing his business! 27:25 The decision to start hiring and the business grows 29:06 An online course is a way for more people to receive your services (Note to Listener: Can what you do be taught in an online course?) 31:06 When to take action? Listen to your gut 32:06 Build your network with like-minded, like-hearted people 2 Key Takeaways 33:04 Build your network. The first step? ASK! Here's how to start 33:37 A life-changing realization…get this!!!! 34:24 Are your beliefs the truth? Nope. Not necessarily 34:30 The wisdom of Len's grandmother 35:54 Why you experience self-doubt   How to find Len Pierre: Len Pierre Consulting website Instagram Facebook Connect With Joan: Instagram Facebook Joan's Main Site Email Be on the show! Be Our Guest    

What makes the Tiwahe Foundation intrinsically distinct from mainstream philanthropy is rooted in its name. In the Dakota language tiwahe means family, symbolizing the connection of Native people to all living things and their collective responsibility to family, community, and Mother Earth. Native philanthropy uses a seventh-generation mindset, based in Iroquois philosophy, to ensure that decisions made today will produce a sustainable world 7 generations into the future. For Nikki Pieratos, a member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa who leads the Tiwahe Foundation, these values guide every aspect of its grantmaking. It starts with investing directly in individuals and families without the proscriptive requirements of most foundations. It makes grants to urban Native people, largely Dakota and Ojibwe, displaced from their land by early relocation era policies, in the Metro Minneapolis region. As Nikki explains, Native Americans receive only 0.4% of philanthropic dollars but they are making impactful changes in  philanthropic practice. It is telling that Tiwahe Foundation's endowment was funded by small but collectively significant contributions of grantees who have become donors. There are many lessons here for “big” philanthropy.  

Dr. Charlotte Coté is the author of A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast, and she sat down with Libby Denkmann to discuss "decolonizing" native diets.

Hardly a day goes by it seems without news of some ‘revolutionary' A.I.-driven tool ushering in a brave new world. Less said is who'll be left out or left behind. Which is why, when it comes to Indigenous content, some fear much of artificial intelligence remains superficial ignorance. But can ‘The Cloud' incorporate culture? Can we Indigenize as we digitize? And can the digital be made relational? Joining host/producer Rick Harp to tangle with these tricky, trippy questions and more are Kim TallBear, professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, and Trina Roache, Rogers Chair in Journalism at the University of King's College. // CREDITS: Our opening/closing theme is 'nesting' by birocratic.

In the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (c̓uumaʕas) brings sockeye salmon (miʕaat) into the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht. C̓uumaʕas and miʕaat are central to the sacred food practices that have been a crucial part of the Indigenous community's efforts to enact food sovereignty, decolonize their diet, and preserve their ancestral knowledge. In A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, Charlotte Coté shared contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth practices of traditional food revitalization in the context of broader efforts to re-Indigenize contemporary diets on the Northwest Coast. Coté offered evocative stories — rooted in her Tseshaht community and in her own work — to revitalize relationships to haʔum (traditional food) as a way to nurture health and wellness. As Indigenous peoples continue to face food insecurity due to ongoing inequality, environmental degradation, and the Westernization of traditional diets, Coté foregrounded healing and cultural sustenance via everyday enactments of food sovereignty: berry picking, salmon fishing, and building a community garden on reclaimed residential school grounds. Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht/Nuu-chah-nulth) is Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington, and has been teaching in AIS since 2001. Dr. Coté holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Comparative Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley and is Affiliated Faculty in the UW's Jackson School Canadian Studies Center. Dr. Coté serves as co-editor for the UW Press' Indigenous Confluences series and is the author of Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions (UW Press, 2010). Dr. Coté is chair of the UW's wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ (a Lushootseed word meaning “Intellectual House”) Advisory Committee. She is also co-founder and chair of the UW's annual “The Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ” Indigenous Foods Symposium held in May at the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ. Dr. Coté serves on the Board of Directors for the UW's Center for American Indian/Indigenous Studies (CAIIS), the Burke Museum's Native American Advisory Board, the Na-ah Illahee Fund Board, and the NDN Collective (Northwest Coast Representative). She also served on the Potlatch Fund Board of Directors, and for seven years served as President. Dana Arviso is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and grew up on the Bishop Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation in California. Dana proudly commits herself to improving the lives of youth, families, and communities through education and working for social improvements within the fields of education and philanthropy.  She previously served as the Executive Director of Potlatch Fund, a Native American-led foundation. Dana has served on the boards of Social Justice Fund Northwest, Native Americans in Philanthropy, American Indian Graduate Center, and 501 Commons. She also serves on the planning committee for the Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ: Indigenous Foods Symposium alongside Dr. Coté. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the UW College of Education. Buy the Book: A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast (Indigenous Confluences) (Paperback) from University Book Store Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

The Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley is a public intellectual, author, activist, farmer, scholar, speaker, and wisdom keeper. He is a recognized leader in the fields of Indigenous and Intercultural Studies, Ecology, Spirituality, Race, Theology, and Missiology.  Through his teaching and leadership, he invites Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to decolonize and Indigenize their worldview and practices so they can learn to walk on this earth in a good way.  Randy and his wife Edith are co-creators and co-sustainers of Eloheh  Indigenous Center for Earth Justice and Eloheh Farm & Seeds. Through an Eloheh experience, they invite people to a deeper spirituality and new relationship with creation while modelling regenerative Earth-tending practices and Earth justice. Randy has penned numerous books, chapters, and articles in his long writing career. He is most well-known for his connection to The Harmony Way as original Indigenous teachings and how they might apply as common values today, in order to build a better world. Today we discuss his latest book BECOMING ROOTED : ONE HUNDRED DAYS OF RECONNECTING WITH SACRED EARTHThis podcast was recorded on February 4th, 2022.

This is Part Two of our conversation with tribal elder and matriarch Casey Camp Horinek. We discuss why a tribally led movement is the best hope for the planet, and how the unique legal and political relationship between tribes and the U.S. federal government is advantageous in efforts to truly protect ecosystems. Casey also discusses the journey her tribe is taking as they explore the best ways to incorporate rights of nature into their legal framework. 

Colonization has not ended. We are not in a post-colonial age in a similar way that we are not in a post-racial age. Colonization has simply become normalized, perpetuated by dominant culture narratives, and accepted by the majority as part of life. On this episode, we share a virtual public talk Julián Esteban Torres López gave entitled "Decolonizing and Indigenizing Storytelling," hosted by the Department of Language, Literature, and Arts at Texas A&M, San Antonio. Julián centers the talk around several questions: What does it mean to decolonize and Indigenize storytelling? How do institutionalized Euro-centric storytelling frameworks limit creativity, understanding of stories and histories, and how we relate to others, our selves, our environment, and our art creations? What does it mean to center Indigenous ways of thinking, knowing, and creating in storytelling? How can we reimagine and redesign and free ourselves from the shackles and limitations of colonial storytelling? He shares his story; discusses his storytelling work across various media platforms; and addresses the importance of decolonizing storytelling, affirming Indigenous traditions, and creating safe and encouraging spaces for BIPOC stories. We'd like to thank Rigorous (a journal edited and written by people of color) for publishing Julián's poem “The Wind” in its Volume 5, Issue 2. We'd also like to thank the Dr. Alexandra Rodriguez Sabogal and Dr. Katherine Gillen (chair of the Department of Language, Literature, and Arts at Texas A&M, San Antonio) for all of the hours of preparation they put into making this event happen. Also thank you to Myrna Garza (chair of Native American Heritage Month Committee) and Tamara Hinojosa and the President's Commission on Equity for their work and support of this event. We'd also like to thank the university's Spanish, Bilingual Education, Mexican-American and Latinx Studies, Communication, English, and First Year Experience programs for making this event possible. And gracias to the entire Texas A&M, San Antonio, cohort and everyone who attended the event virtually from around the world.  The Nasiona Podcast amplifies the voices and experiences of the marginalized, undervalued, overlooked, silenced, and forgotten, as well as gives you a glimpse into Othered worlds. We focus on stories that explore the spectrum of human experiences—stories based on facts, truth-seeking, human concerns, real events, and real people, with a personal touch. From liminal lives to the marginalized, and everything in between, we believe that the subjective can offer its own reality and reveal truths some facts can't discover. Hosted, edited, and produced by Julián Esteban Torres López @je_torres_lopez. Please follow The Nasiona on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for regular updates: @TheNasiona Original music for The Nasiona Podcast was produced by the Grammy Award-winning team of Joe Sparkman and Marcus Allen, aka The Heavyweights. Joe Sparkman: Twitter + Instagram. Marcus Allen: Twitter + Instagram. The Nasiona Magazine and Podcast depend on voluntary contributions from readers and listeners like you. We hope the value of our work to our community is worth your patronage. If you like what we do, please show this by liking, rating, and reviewing us; buying or recommending our books; and by financially supporting our work either through The Nasiona's Patreon page or through Julián Esteban Torres López's Ko-fi donation platform. Every little bit helps. Thank you for listening and reading, and thank you for your support.

Daybreak Star Radio is a brand-new online stream of indigenous music, news and culture from here in Seattle. We head to Discovery Park to visit station manager Sherry Steele at the studio in the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center.Music from this episode:1) 'My Stone,' Frank Waln, 2) 'Me and You,' Drezus, 3) 'Boogie,' Cece T, 4) 'Where They At,' Snotty Nose Rez Kids, 5) 'For Women by Women,' Eekwol

The idea that a river or other feature of nature is a living being is nothing new to Indigenous and other traditional Peoples around the world. In this episode with Matriarch Casey Camp-Horinek, we talk about how the indigenous-led Rights of Nature movement has the potential to protect ecosystems from destruction by granting legal rights to nature itself, and how tribes are uniquely positioned for leadership to institute and uphold the Rights of Nature in a way that U.S. states and municipalities cannot because of their sovereign legal status.

D.L. Mayfield and Randy Woodley talk about spiritual practices, touching on a variety of topics: what it means to be a theologian, Platonic dualism, the ministry of the sweat lodge, passing on spiritual practices to our children, nature spirituality, and much more.  Randy Woodley is a public theologian, author, activist, farmer, scholar, and wisdom keeper. He is a recognized leader in the fields of Indigenous and Intercultural Studies, Ecology, Spirituality, Theology, and Missiology. Through his teaching and leadership, he invites Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to decolonize and Indigenize their theology, worldview, and practices so they can learn to walk on this earth in a good way. Randy is a Cherokee descendant recognized by the Keetoowah Band. Learn more at: https://randywoodley.com (https://randywoodley.com) 

On today's podcast Jessica interviews Steve DeRoy (Buffalo Clan, Anishinaabe/Saulteaux, Ebb and Flow First Nation), co-founder, director and past president of The Firelight Group and founder of the Indigenous Mapping Workshop. Steve and Jessica do a deep dive into Indigenous mapping. How does one Indigenize mapping, why is that important, and what are some of the ethics involved? We also discuss the 2021 Indigenous Mapping Workshop coming up November 1-5, 2021 as well as ongoing resources available (free for Indigenous individuals, Nations, and organizations!) through the Indigenous Mapping Collective. Register to attend the 2021 Indigenous Mapping Workshop: Turtle Island, by RSVPing on the Indigenous Mapping Collective in the links below. Links Heritage Voices on the APN 2021 Indigenous Mapping Workshop Indigenous Mapping Collective The Firelight Group Contact Jessica Jessica@livingheritageanthropology.org @livingheritageA @LivingHeritageResearchCouncil ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular

On today's podcast Jessica interviews Steve DeRoy (Buffalo Clan, Anishinaabe/Saulteaux, Ebb and Flow First Nation), co-founder, director and past president of The Firelight Group and founder of the Indigenous Mapping Workshop. Steve and Jessica do a deep dive into Indigenous mapping. How does one Indigenize mapping, why is that important, and what are some of the ethics involved? We also discuss the 2021 Indigenous Mapping Workshop coming up November 1-5, 2021 as well as ongoing resources available (free for Indigenous individuals, Nations, and organizations!) through the Indigenous Mapping Collective. Register to attend the 2021 Indigenous Mapping Workshop: Turtle Island, by RSVPing on the Indigenous Mapping Collective in the links below. Links Heritage Voices on the APN 2021 Indigenous Mapping Workshop Indigenous Mapping Collective The Firelight Group Contact Jessica Jessica@livingheritageanthropology.org @livingheritageA @LivingHeritageResearchCouncil ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular

Native American and Indigenous storytellers long preceded the days of television, but have largely been excluded from the industry, stereotyped by inauthentic storytelling, or erased from the picture altogether. However, these creatives are changing TV for the better, and reclaiming their long-overdue seat at the table. Join us for a conversation with the Native American and Indigenous actors, writers, directors, and producers that are re-centering Indigenous storytelling and producing dynamic TV in the process.This panel originally aired June 14, 2021, as part of ATX TV Festival Season 10.PANELISTS:Sierra Teller Ornelas (Showrunner/EP/Co-Creator, Rutherford Falls)Sydney Freeland (Director, Rutherford Falls, The Wilds)Michael Greyeyes (Actor, Rutherford Falls)Kimberly Guerrero (Actor, Rutherford Falls, The Wilds)MODERATOR: Vincent Schilling (Indian Country Today)SUBSCRIBE to our ATX TV YouTube Channel for more panels, conversations & events with your favorite TV creatives and casts.Follow ATX TV: @ATXFestival on Twitter, Facebook, and InstagramFor more information on ATX TV Festival, visit: atxfestival.com

Inuk woman Mary Simon was sworn in as Canada's 30th Governor General becoming the first ever Indigenous person elevated to this role. To properly mark the occasion the country pulled out the stops to Indigenize the ceremony.

"To listen, to feel—is to Indigenize. The shattering of systems, which is what we're in right now. It's very uncertain. It's uncomfortable. It's scary, but we know it needs to happen. This creates space for the Natural Ways of Knowing to rise." —Ecko Aleck, Global Indigenous Lead In this episode This special episode of the SheEO podcast was recorded during the weekly community calls with Ecko Aleck, Global Indigenous Lead. She explores with Activators and Ventures—what is decolonization? And how do we move through it? Systems change starts with us. Join our community to experience more types of these learnings at SheEO.World. Ecko also discusses: The process of re-imagining new systems and ways of being with ancestral wisdom Story, teachings and personal decolonization tools How we can reflect & connect in our own ways We invite you to join us as an Activator at SheEO.World. Take action and engage with Ecko Aleck on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Ten years after set­ting indige­nous achieve­ment as a strate­gic pri­or­i­ty at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­i­to­ba, hear about its impact. Two pro­fes­sors and a stu­dent from The Fac­ul­ty of Archi­tec­ture are see­ing many more indige­nous stu­dents, more schol­ar­ships for them, more activism, and more con­nec­tions to indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties across the west­ern hemisphere.

Episode #34 Notes1:00 - How did you get involved in the good food movement?7:00 - On Agronomy.9:15 - How did you decide to focus on poultry?14:45 - What is ‘Tree Range' poultry?22:00 - How do you define regenerative agriculture?24:30 - What are the goals of the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance?30:00 - Regenerative Agricultural and cultural appropriation.37:20 - Regenerative Agriculture and Food Sovereignty.40:00 - Book Recommendations!Sacred Instructions, Sherri MitchellIn The Shadow of Green Man, Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin

A conversation on how to be more inclusive when performing thanks on Thanksgiving. Indigenous Vision's Executive Director Souta and Melissa "the music lady" discuss the origin of Thanksgiving, the commercialism, and the environmental impact of one of North America's most cherished holidays. Leave us a comment on how you celebrate! Produced by Melissa Spence.

The terrible, horrible, mostly bad year of 2020 marks a decisive break with the past. But what will come next? What will the future look like? In this episode of The Overstory we imagine a brighter, better future with an all-star roster of activists and authors. Melissa Nelson of The Cultural Conservancy discusses what it will take to Indigenize the conservation movement, Black urbanist Kristin Jeffers envisions a new kind of city, Varshini Prakash of the Sunrise Movement offers her take on youth activism, and the Sierra Club's director of campaigns, Mary Anne Hitt, tells us what a clean energy future can be like.

Happy Native American Heritage Day! Today we talk about how indigenous peoples have been treated in pop culture. We go over positive and negative representations and the impact it has on the real-life people and tribes they represent. 5 Films to Indigenize your watch-at-home movie list https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-culture-5-films-to-indigenize-your-watch-at-home-movie-list Quileute Move to Higher Ground https://mthg.org/

What does it means to Indigenize educational spaces and materials to better reflect Indigenous people in an authentic way. How do we weave the strong foundations of traditional cultural knowledge with emerging ideas about what it means to be a Native-identified person in our present day. In part 1 of 2, we chat with Miriam (she/her), an Afro-Indigenous early learning professional in Seattle, WA on her experience on being and working with multi-tribal, multi-cultural, and multi-racial children and families. Napcast is a podcast designed to help you learn on the go, hear another perspective, spark debate, agree incessantly, and honestly, remind you that you're not alone. We live in a complex world, so allow us to challenge your orientation with words, thoughts, advice, and the perspective of two male early childhood educators of color. The Hosts: Nick Terrones (he/him) is a former educator at Hilltop Children's Center where he has worked with toddlers for the last 10+ years implementing Anti-Bias Curriculum. He now serves as the director of Daybreak Star Preschool at United Indians of All Tribes in Seattle, WA. He's a Los Angeles raised Mexican-Native-American with a passion for equity, plants, the ukulele, and raising awareness to the need of a gender-balanced workforce in ECE. Mike Browne (he/him) is the Senior Community Engagement Manager for Hilltop Educator Institute. He's a New York raised, Afro-Caribbean, former collegiate athlete, working towards dismantling White Supremacy and forms of oppression in our society. Hilltop Children's Center is a reggio-inspired preschool, afterschool program, and equity-focused professional development institute in Seattle, WA, on the traditional lands of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hilltopcc/support

Why it’s important and why it’s not a new concept to live in sync with nature rather than at odds with it. today I chat with Kamea Chayne, host of Green Dreamer Podcast, and she goes deep into intersectional environmentalism and reindigenizing the landscape to offer place based solutions to climate change, rather than a one size fits all method. Green Dreamer: https://greendreamer.com/ https://www.instagram.com/greendreamerpodcast/ The Ecologist Guide to Fashion by Ruth Styles: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24375304-ecologist-guide-to-fashion The True Cost: https://truecostmovie.com/ Kiss the Ground: https://kisstheground.com/ Rodale Institute: https://rodaleinstitute.org/ Regenerative Organic Alliance: https://regenorganic.org/ Lawns into Meadows: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53034189-lawns-into-meadows Trap Garden: http://trapgarden.org/ Green Dreamer Ep. 261 Seeding Freedom in this time of Oneness vs. the 1% https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/261-dr-vandana-shiva-seeding-freedom-in-this-time-oneness/id1382371884?i=1000490325836 Green Dreamer Ep. 173 Revitalizing Native American foods and re-identifying North American cuisine: https://greendreamer.com/podcast/sean-sherman-sioux-chef?rq=natifs NATIFS (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems): https://www.natifs.org/ Gather Film: https://gather.film/ ______________________ New Episodes Every (other) Sunday at 8 AM. You can find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Anchor, Overcast and more. Support the podcast at https://ko-fi.com/elsbethcallaghan Contact us at practicallyzerowaste@gmail.com Instagram @practicallyzerowastepod @elsbethcallaghan --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/practicallyzerowaste/message

Operations are tight at the port of Goose Bay, we'll hear from 2 parties who are leasing and who both disagree with the new division imposed by the province. Memorial University wants a new and very different relationship with Indigenous people in the province. We'll find out about it's draft framework to Indigenize the university --- what that means and how it can happen. Some of the words and phrases we say have a troubled origin... We'll talk about racism and language.

This is a live recording of Annie Sorrell and Tommy Mackey at the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) 48th Annual Conference in Lexington, Kentucky on October 17, 2019. The topic of this session was focused on the diverse interests in environmental science that have grappled with the differences between mainstream quantitative science and qualitative Indigenous science. This hands-on presentation is for education practitioners who have questions about what these differences mean for environmental education. Be sure to check out the link below to download the PowerPoint so you can follow along. Main Ideas: importance of place Indigenous perspectives on land how a worldview shaped Onondaga Lake how a worldview shaped the Mission Mountain Tribal Wilderness moving forward with two lenses ~ Links & Resources: NAAEE Workshop PowerPoint Searching for Synergy: Integrating Traditional and Scientific Ecological Knowledge in Environmental Science Education by Robin Kimmerer Two-Eyed Seeing into Environmental Education: Revealing its "Natural" Readiness to Indigenize by Margaret McKeon North American Association for Environmental Education ~ Like this show? Leave us a review on iTunes... even one sentence helps! And if you leave your Twitter handle we'll be sure to thank you personally! You can also Support the Show on PayPal NDN Science Show WordPress Page ~

This is a live recording of Annie Sorrell and Tommy Mackey at the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) 48th Annual Conference in Lexington, Kentucky on October 17, 2019. The topic of this session was focused on the diverse interests in environmental science that have grappled with the differences between mainstream quantitative science and qualitative Indigenous science. This hands-on presentation is for education practitioners who have questions about what these differences mean for environmental education. Be sure to check out the link below to download the PowerPoint so you can follow along. Main Ideas: importance of place Indigenous perspectives on land how a worldview shaped Onondaga Lake how a worldview shaped the Mission Mountain Tribal Wilderness moving forward with two lenses ~ Links & Resources: NAAEE Workshop PowerPoint Searching for Synergy: Integrating Traditional and Scientific Ecological Knowledge in Environmental Science Education by Robin Kimmerer Two-Eyed Seeing into Environmental Education: Revealing its "Natural" Readiness to Indigenize by Margaret McKeon North American Association for Environmental Education ~ Like this show? Leave us a review on iTunes... even one sentence helps! And if you leave your Twitter handle we'll be sure to thank you personally! You can also Support the Show on PayPal NDN Science Show WordPress Page ~

Congresswoman Deb Haaland has some ideas about what it means when President Trump tells newly-elected congresswomen to go back where they came from. Haaland is, herself, a newly-elected member of Congress from New Mexico, where her long history of activism includes stints as chair of the New Mexico Democratic Party and a bid for statewide office. A lawyer with great organizing skills, she has hit the ground running in the House, as a key member of the Armed Services and Natural Resources committees. She's the co-chair of the Congressional Native American Caucus, and on March 7, 2019, during a debate on voting rights, she became the first Native American woman to preside over the United States House of Representatives. That's right. It took 230 years before a pair of Native American women - Haaland and Sharice Davids of Kansas - were elected to the people's house. For Haaland's part, she's an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo people. Archeologists tell us that the Laguna Pueblo people have lived in western New Mexico since around 6500 BC. So when right-wingers talk about sending congresswomen who disagree with the president back, Haaland reminds them that her roots run a lot deeper than their's do. SHOW NOTES Meet Deb Haaland, Democrat for Congress (https://www.thenation.com/article/meet-deb-haaland-democrat-congress/) The Nation Joshua Holland ‘They’re Gonna Rock It’: The First Day Native Woman Served on Capitol Hill (https://www.thenation.com/article/haaland-davids-congress-joy-native-representation/) The Nation Julian Brave NoiseCat Go back where? Trump’s racist tweets hits panel that included Deb Haaland (https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/go-back-where-trump-s-racist-tweets-hits-panel-that-included-deb-haaland-sIBKoIFV3k-rmTBQA5kz8g/) Indian Country Today How to Indigenize the Green New Deal and environmental justice (https://www.hcn.org/articles/tribal-affairs-how-to-indigenize-the-green-new-deal-and-environmental-justice) High Country News Dina Gilio-Whitaker Trump Wants Immigrants to ‘Go Back.’ Native Americans Don’t. (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/opinion/trump-immigration-native-americans.html) New York Times Deb Haaland It’s Been 70 years since court ruled Native Americans could vote in New Mexico (https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/it-s-been-years-since-court-ruled-native-americans-could/article_d0544a48-ef37-56ef-958f-eb81dcf01344.html) Santa Fe New Mexican Andrew Oxford

Akomawt is a Passamaquoddy word for the snowshoe path. At the beginning of winter, the snowshoe path is hard to find. But the more people pass along and carve out this path through the snow during the season, the easier it becomes for everyone to walk it together. endawnis Spears (https://www.akomawt.org/about-us.html) (Diné/ Ojibwe/ Chickasaw/ Choctaw) is director of programming and outreach for the Akomawt Educational Initiative (https://www.akomawt.org). She saw a need to supply regional educators with the tools to implement competent education on Native history and Native contemporary issues. She co-founded the Initiative with Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy) and Dr. Jason Mancini to make those tools. In this episode, Spears talks about the different between living culture and sterile museum artifacts, her discussion at Untold Stories 2019: Indigenous Futures and Collaborative Conservation (https://www.untoldstories.live/mohegan-sun-2019) about how Native narratives are violently presented through a white lens in museums, and the potential for museums to disrupt that for many visitors. Museum Archipelago is a tiny show guiding you through the rocky landscape of museums. Subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/museum-archipelago/id1182755184), Google Podcasts (https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubXVzZXVtYXJjaGlwZWxhZ28uY29tL3Jzcw==), Overcast (https://overcast.fm/itunes1182755184/museum-archipelago), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/5ImpDQJqEypxGNslnImXZE), or even email (https://mailchi.mp/6aab38a7b159/museumgo) to never miss an episode. Unlock Club Archipelago

Today, we share the second half of out two-part special with comrades from the IAF-FAI, Bad Salish Girl and The Green City. This time, we chat about the unique challenges and advantages of organizing in the countryside.  Make sure to check out Pt. I if you haven't done so already!  Follow the IAF-FAI on Twitter and visit their website. Follow Bad Salish Girl and The Green City on Twitter. The artwork for this episode was inspired by Jackie Fawn. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is a grateful part of the Rev Left Radio Podcast Federation. Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art. Music:  Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie  Interlude: "Fkkk You, Amerikkka" by Indigenize  Outro: "A Matter of Action" by Klee Benally

This episode of Unsettling the Nation explores the Indigenous history as well as the colonial history of the CRD Park, Tower Point. It asks you to consider who’s land you are on. By centering this knowledge we can work together re-Indigenize how we see the land and our relationship to it. This can act as a method of decolonization.

originally broadcast on Hollow Earth Radio 104.9 KHUH LP FM in Seattle, Washington  on this fortnightly episode Val & Clara discuss how mercury's retrograde shadow period is messing with their lives, Stormy Daniels and they broadcast an interview with the folx behind Indigenize Productions  find us on facebook! @Hot Takes With Hot Dykez clara's insta @realcrissangel val's insta @teenbeat_84

Last week, Ken Steele sat down with Vianne Timmons, president of the University of Regina, to discuss why Indigenization matters to higher ed.  (ICYMI see it at https://youtu.be/iLe1mxiT4rM). This week, we turn from “why” to “how”, and look at dozens of ways that colleges and universities can better accommodate Indigenous students, integrate Indigenous ways of knowing and learning, and introduce all students to Indigenous perspectives.  This episode highlights more than 40 examples of ways in which non-Indigenous faculty, staff and administrators can help to indigenize the campus. The examples are drawn from “100 Ways to Indigenize and Decolonize Academic Programs and Courses,” a checklist developed for the UofR by Dr Shauneen Pete in 2015, when she was the University’s Executive Lead of Indigenization.  You can find the full checklist at: https://www.uregina.ca/president/assets/docs/president-docs/indigenization/indigenize-decolonize-university-courses.pdf or read Dr Pete’s article in Aboriginal Policy Studies vol. 6, no. 1, 2016: http://accle.ca/wp-content/uploads/Pete-100-Ways-of-Indigenizing-Decol.pdf   Because every Indigenous person and community have had very different experiences, it is important to work with elders, knowledge-keepers, and Indigenous staff and faculty to develop approaches for your own context. Without a doubt, we need to recruit more Indigenous staff, faculty, students, and graduate students. A big part of the challenge is to overcome financial and geographic barriers for prospective students in remote communities. Specialized cohort programs can encourage student success. Sessional hires can prioritize Indigenous candidates. There are many small things that cumulatively can improve the campus experience for Indigenous students. We can recognize Indigenous names and symbols on campus, acknowledge traditional lands, display Indigenous symbols and art. We can honour Indigenous alumni, nominate Indigenous scholars for awards, and recognize Elders with gifts and honoraria. We also may need to revise criteria for faculty promotion, perhaps by recognizing relational capital. We can also incorporate traditional celebrations and events on campus, from major annual pow-wows to traditional feasts, smudging, and round-dances. These events should engage all students, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and can be considered at the departmental level. Every campus needs a gathering place for Indigenous students, where they can feel comfortable in their culture and share joys and challenges with each other and with elders. We can ensure that signage and promotional materials recognize Indigenous students’ languages and contributions. “You must invest financially in supports for Indigenous students,” says Timmons. We can create some courses designed specifically for Indigenous learners, and make others mandatory on “shared work” such as settler-Indigenous relations and reconciliation. Professional schools need to insert mandatory courses, and pursue Indigenous language programs like First Nations University’s Denee Teacher Education Program. The biggest challenge for settlers is to recognize our biases. Many of us have been raised in a Eurocentric culture, and we take capitalism and the scientific method for granted. Whiteness isn’t neutral, and we can help overcome students’ limitations by naming the dominant worldview, and ensuring that alternative perspectives are visible. Administrators can ensure that workshops, release time and financial supports are available for faculty interested in Indigenizing their courses. Faculty can co-teach with Indigenous elders, alumni and community members. We can establish Aboriginal Advisory Circles within each Faculty. Instructors can move away from lecture and try a circle format in class, or land-based learning. Even nontraditional evaluation methods, like performance or artistic expression, could be considered. Ultimately Indigenization can’t just be the job of Indigenous people: it will only have succeeded when everyone on campus understands and advances it. Indigenous faculty and staff are already burdened with much extra work, and Indigenous students cannot be expected to fill in gaps in the curriculum. All of us know how to learn, and need to commit time and energy to the topic. Indigenous history is being written, and Dr Pete’s checklist includes a helpful bibliography of sources. All faculty should consciously seek out Indigenous scholarship in their field, and every campus leader has a responsibility to learn more about Indigenizing the academy.   Vianne Timmons began her teaching career on the Babine First Nations Reserve in BC, and was appointed President of the University of Regina in 2008. She has helped advance Indigenization through dozens of initiatives, and two successive strategic plans. Vianne is one of 12 recipients of the national 2019 Indspire Award. Shot on location at First Nations University, on the University of Regina campus, in October 2018, by campus videography staff – thank you again!   Next week, it’s the annual Ten with Ken Holiday Special!  To be sure you don’t miss it, subscribe today!  http://eduvation.ca/subscribe/ And if you would like to host a 10K Site Visit at your campus, see http://eduvation.ca/twk/site-visits/for further information!

Last week, Ken Steele sat down with Vianne Timmons, president of the University of Regina, to discuss why Indigenization matters to higher ed.  (ICYMI see it at https://youtu.be/iLe1mxiT4rM). This week, we turn from “why” to “how”, and look at dozens of ways that colleges and universities can better accommodate Indigenous students, integrate Indigenous ways of knowing and learning, and introduce all students to Indigenous perspectives.  This episode highlights more than 40 examples of ways in which non-Indigenous faculty, staff and administrators can help to indigenize the campus. The examples are drawn from “100 Ways to Indigenize and Decolonize Academic Programs and Courses,” a checklist developed for the UofR by Dr Shauneen Pete in 2015, when she was the University’s Executive Lead of Indigenization.  You can find the full checklist at: https://www.uregina.ca/president/assets/docs/president-docs/indigenization/indigenize-decolonize-university-courses.pdf or read Dr Pete’s article in Aboriginal Policy Studies vol. 6, no. 1, 2016: http://accle.ca/wp-content/uploads/Pete-100-Ways-of-Indigenizing-Decol.pdf   Because every Indigenous person and community have had very different experiences, it is important to work with elders, knowledge-keepers, and Indigenous staff and faculty to develop approaches for your own context. Without a doubt, we need to recruit more Indigenous staff, faculty, students, and graduate students. A big part of the challenge is to overcome financial and geographic barriers for prospective students in remote communities. Specialized cohort programs can encourage student success. Sessional hires can prioritize Indigenous candidates. There are many small things that cumulatively can improve the campus experience for Indigenous students. We can recognize Indigenous names and symbols on campus, acknowledge traditional lands, display Indigenous symbols and art. We can honour Indigenous alumni, nominate Indigenous scholars for awards, and recognize Elders with gifts and honoraria. We also may need to revise criteria for faculty promotion, perhaps by recognizing relational capital. We can also incorporate traditional celebrations and events on campus, from major annual pow-wows to traditional feasts, smudging, and round-dances. These events should engage all students, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and can be considered at the departmental level. Every campus needs a gathering place for Indigenous students, where they can feel comfortable in their culture and share joys and challenges with each other and with elders. We can ensure that signage and promotional materials recognize Indigenous students’ languages and contributions. “You must invest financially in supports for Indigenous students,” says Timmons. We can create some courses designed specifically for Indigenous learners, and make others mandatory on “shared work” such as settler-Indigenous relations and reconciliation. Professional schools need to insert mandatory courses, and pursue Indigenous language programs like First Nations University’s Denee Teacher Education Program. The biggest challenge for settlers is to recognize our biases. Many of us have been raised in a Eurocentric culture, and we take capitalism and the scientific method for granted. Whiteness isn’t neutral, and we can help overcome students’ limitations by naming the dominant worldview, and ensuring that alternative perspectives are visible. Administrators can ensure that workshops, release time and financial supports are available for faculty interested in Indigenizing their courses. Faculty can co-teach with Indigenous elders, alumni and community members. We can establish Aboriginal Advisory Circles within each Faculty. Instructors can move away from lecture and try a circle format in class, or land-based learning. Even nontraditional evaluation methods, like performance or artistic expression, could be considered. Ultimately Indigenization can’t just be the job of Indigenous people: it will only have succeeded when everyone on campus understands and advances it. Indigenous faculty and staff are already burdened with much extra work, and Indigenous students cannot be expected to fill in gaps in the curriculum. All of us know how to learn, and need to commit time and energy to the topic. Indigenous history is being written, and Dr Pete’s checklist includes a helpful bibliography of sources. All faculty should consciously seek out Indigenous scholarship in their field, and every campus leader has a responsibility to learn more about Indigenizing the academy.   Vianne Timmons began her teaching career on the Babine First Nations Reserve in BC, and was appointed President of the University of Regina in 2008. She has helped advance Indigenization through dozens of initiatives, and two successive strategic plans. Vianne is one of 12 recipients of the national 2019 Indspire Award. Shot on location at First Nations University, on the University of Regina campus, in October 2018, by campus videography staff – thank you again!   Next week, it’s the annual Ten with Ken Holiday Special!  To be sure you don’t miss it, subscribe today!  http://eduvation.ca/subscribe/ And if you would like to host a 10K Site Visit at your campus, see http://eduvation.ca/twk/site-visits/for further information!

In the wake of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Canada’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission findings, higher ed is realizing just how much work lies ahead if it is to reconcile itself with Indigenous peoples, and indigenize the curriculum. Saskatchewan, where some projections say that 30% of the population will be Indigenous by the year 2045, is in many ways the epicentre of indigenization. This week, Ken Steele talks with Vianne Timmons, President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Regina, to better understand why Indigenization matters. Vianne grew up in Labrador and is of Mi’kmaq heritage, but Ken is quite conscious of being a white settler of European ancestry. How can non-Indigenous people get over their reticence to talk about a challenging subject? Vianne reassures us that people appreciate genuine interest and a desire to learn, even if they make errors in protocol. The University of Regina has been Indigenizing for 40 years. Vianne has an Executive Lead – Indigenization who reports directly to her office, and an Aboriginal Advisory Circle that provides feedback. “Shoulder to shoulder we work together to Indigenize our campus.” The latest UofR strategic plan, “peyak aski kikawinaw”, has Indigenization as a top priority. First Nations University is a federated college of the University of Regina, independent administratively, but integrated academically. In 2009 there were unsubstantiated allegations of mismanagement that led the federal and provincial governments to suspend FNUC’s funding. Indigenous communities and students protested, and the University of Regina stepped up to assume administrative oversight of FNUC for five years until it regained its independence. Now FNUC is financially stable, with solid leadership and growing enrolment. The UofR was presented with an Eagle Staff as a symbol to thank them for their advocacy, but also to challenge them to continue being warriors for truth and reconciliation, and Indigenous education rights. The UofR’s Aboriginal Advisory Circle defines Indigenization as “the transformation of the existing academy by including indigenous knowledges, voices, critiques, scholars, students and materials, as well as the establishment of physical and epistemic spaces that facilitate the ethical stewardship of a plurality of indigenous knowledges and practices so thoroughly as to constitute an essential element of the university. Indigenization is not limited to Indigenous people, but encompasses all students and faculty, for the benefit of our academic integrity and our social viability.”  (See https://www.uregina.ca/strategic-plan/priorities/indigenization.html) So to truly Indigenize, institutions need to include Indigenous peoples as students, faculty, and staff; include Indigenous scholarship and perspectives in curriculum; provide physical and symbolic spaces dedicated to Indigenous use; and re-think the foundations of the academy. Indigenous peoples are the founding people of Canada, and institutions need to reflect their country – but Indigenization benefits ALL students.  It provides them with a better appreciation of First Nations peoples, a more nuanced understanding of historical truth, and prepares them for a world in which indigenous peoples and settlers are truly reconciled. “There is so much that went unsaid in our past, that needs to be spoken in our future.”   Vianne Timmons began her teaching career on the Babine First Nations Reserve in BC, and was appointed President of the University of Regina in 2008. She has helped advance Indigenization through dozens of initiatives, and two successive strategic plans. Vianne is one of 12 recipients of the national 2019 Indspire Award. Shot on location at First Nations University, on the University of Regina campus, in October 2018, by campus videography staff – thank you again!   Next week, Ken’s conversation with Vianne Timmons continues, as we explore “100 Ways to Indigenize Your Campus.” To be sure you don’t miss it, subscribe today!  http://eduvation.ca/subscribe/ And if you would like to host a 10K Site Visit at your campus, see http://eduvation.ca/twk/site-visits/for further information!  

In the wake of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Canada’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission findings, higher ed is realizing just how much work lies ahead if it is to reconcile itself with Indigenous peoples, and indigenize the curriculum. Saskatchewan, where some projections say that 30% of the population will be Indigenous by the year 2045, is in many ways the epicentre of indigenization. This week, Ken Steele talks with Vianne Timmons, President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Regina, to better understand why Indigenization matters. Vianne grew up in Labrador and is of Mi’kmaq heritage, but Ken is quite conscious of being a white settler of European ancestry. How can non-Indigenous people get over their reticence to talk about a challenging subject? Vianne reassures us that people appreciate genuine interest and a desire to learn, even if they make errors in protocol. The University of Regina has been Indigenizing for 40 years. Vianne has an Executive Lead – Indigenization who reports directly to her office, and an Aboriginal Advisory Circle that provides feedback. “Shoulder to shoulder we work together to Indigenize our campus.” The latest UofR strategic plan, “peyak aski kikawinaw”, has Indigenization as a top priority. First Nations University is a federated college of the University of Regina, independent administratively, but integrated academically. In 2009 there were unsubstantiated allegations of mismanagement that led the federal and provincial governments to suspend FNUC’s funding. Indigenous communities and students protested, and the University of Regina stepped up to assume administrative oversight of FNUC for five years until it regained its independence. Now FNUC is financially stable, with solid leadership and growing enrolment. The UofR was presented with an Eagle Staff as a symbol to thank them for their advocacy, but also to challenge them to continue being warriors for truth and reconciliation, and Indigenous education rights. The UofR’s Aboriginal Advisory Circle defines Indigenization as “the transformation of the existing academy by including indigenous knowledges, voices, critiques, scholars, students and materials, as well as the establishment of physical and epistemic spaces that facilitate the ethical stewardship of a plurality of indigenous knowledges and practices so thoroughly as to constitute an essential element of the university. Indigenization is not limited to Indigenous people, but encompasses all students and faculty, for the benefit of our academic integrity and our social viability.”  (See https://www.uregina.ca/strategic-plan/priorities/indigenization.html) So to truly Indigenize, institutions need to include Indigenous peoples as students, faculty, and staff; include Indigenous scholarship and perspectives in curriculum; provide physical and symbolic spaces dedicated to Indigenous use; and re-think the foundations of the academy. Indigenous peoples are the founding people of Canada, and institutions need to reflect their country – but Indigenization benefits ALL students.  It provides them with a better appreciation of First Nations peoples, a more nuanced understanding of historical truth, and prepares them for a world in which indigenous peoples and settlers are truly reconciled. “There is so much that went unsaid in our past, that needs to be spoken in our future.”   Vianne Timmons began her teaching career on the Babine First Nations Reserve in BC, and was appointed President of the University of Regina in 2008. She has helped advance Indigenization through dozens of initiatives, and two successive strategic plans. Vianne is one of 12 recipients of the national 2019 Indspire Award. Shot on location at First Nations University, on the University of Regina campus, in October 2018, by campus videography staff – thank you again!   Next week, Ken’s conversation with Vianne Timmons continues, as we explore “100 Ways to Indigenize Your Campus.” To be sure you don’t miss it, subscribe today!  http://eduvation.ca/subscribe/ And if you would like to host a 10K Site Visit at your campus, see http://eduvation.ca/twk/site-visits/for further information!  

Episode Notes Bio: Kim Haxton is a multifaceted, multidimensional educator, rooted in knowledge and steeped in community. She is Potowatami from Wasauksing, currently based in Vancouver BC. She has worked across Turtle Island and abroad in various capacities, always emphasizing local leadership development toward genuine healing. In her work with Indigeneyez, a creative arts based organization she co-founded, Kim works with Indigenous communities toward decolonization and liberation. Grounded in the arts and the natural world for embodied awareness and facilitated rites of passage, Kim develops de-escalation skills and diversity and anti-oppression education. Kim currently leads Peace and Conflict Resolution programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, cultivating local leadership in Congolese women who have been affected by civil war, poverty and sexual violence. Kim has developed and facilitated programs in over 8 countries, and has been working in land-based education and leadership for the past 20 years. She also free lances with different organizations doing environmental leadership, decolonization and reflection of the patterns that stop us from being authentic leaders. Kim offers consultation, healing ceremony, Group Facilitation and Leadership Development trainings world-wide. Indigenize: http://indigeneyez.com Schools Without Borders: http://www.swb.ca/ Access to Media Education Society: http://accesstomedia.org/ The video Kim mentions early on in the interview can be found here: http://accesstomedia.org/gallery/videos In this interview, we touch on: ++Authentic vs top-down leadership ++Relationships of reciprocity and responsibility ++How healing and decolonization go hand in hand ++Interrupting the narratives around race, power, socioeconomics and poverty ++How do we trust ++Planting seeds for people to pick up their own knowledge and pass it around, versus the stereotypical NGO model of directing money. (There is an amazing anecdote about Kim's work in the Congo which starts at 25:46) ++How can we emerge from the collective dream that is an illusion to dream something new together which honors the earth that we live on ++What is the nature of divine intelligence Music Credits: Intro: Beyond the Bridge by Adam Elim Outro: Light Up the Night by Jasmine Fuego Bloom Podcast cover illustration by Jessica Perlstein About the Bloom Podcast: Our intention for the Bloom Podcast is for it to become a networking and community building vessel. Tune in to what guests share, and if you're inspired to to get involved with related activities, seek them out where you live. Getting involved in regenerative actions is a way to keep your spirits up and to secure health for your community as the extractive systems start to wind themselves down. I'm here if you have questions, and the Bloom team is in the process of setting up communication systems so the global network can more easily share peer support and networking. If there’s a topic you want us to cover or someone you’d like to hear on the show, please get in touch. If you’d like to support this podcast, you can donate at http://bloomnetwork.org/members -Magenta Ceiba, Host, Bloom Podcast Executive Director, Bloom Network For more show notes visit http://www.bloomnetwork.org/bloompodcast/disrupting-the-mainstream-narrative-of-leadership-with-kim-haxton

This week… the first in a two-part conversation that confronts the confusion and contention around what it means to be Métis. In their new article, "White Settler Revisionism and Making Métis Everywhere: The Evocation of Métissage in Québec and Nova Scotia." Co-authors Adam Gaudry (University of Alberta) and Darryl Leroux (Saint Mary’s University) argue that moves by some settler communities to insert a "Métis" identity into places and periods they don’t belong—namely, outside the Prairie homelands of the historic Métis Nation—all in an effort to "self-Indigenize," don’t just constitute wrong-headed fantasy, but a real and present danger to genuine Indigenous self-determination. // Our theme is 'nesting' by birocratic.

To decolonize or Indigenize the university? Sereana Naepi, an Indigenous Pacific Islander, takes on this question through her doctoral studies in Education at UBC on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. PhDiva Xine interviews Sereana about Education as a discipline unto itself and how she brings Indigenous methodologies into her work on Indigenous women's experiences as higher ed staff. As a Fijian scholar from New Zealand, Sereana explains how her community and family inform her work: the PhD gives you a right to serve, not a right not to lead. In this episode, we discuss the various erasures of Pacific Islanders in culture, climate change, the category of Asian American and Pacific Islander, and Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. And we had to talk about Disney's Moana! More on Sereana Naepi's work: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/campus-community/meet-our-students/naepi-sereana Watch the Pasifika Samoan movie Three Wise Cousins: https://www.threewisecousins.com/ Free West Papua: https://www.freewestpapua.org/ Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang's essay "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor": http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/view/18630

In episode 64 Joanna interviews Zephyr Elise. Zephyr Elise is mixed indigenous artist, filmmaker, animator, and activist. They graduated from the Evergreen State College in 2012 with a B.A. in film and a specialization in queer and indigenous studies. Born in San Diego, CA they have since lived up and down both coasts, but currently call the #NoDAPL encampment at Standing Rock, ND home. In former incarnations, they have been an organizer with Idle No More- Two Spirits on Ohlone Lands, the executive media assistant for Indian Canyon Nation of Ohlones, and sat on the Two Spirit Council of Indian Canyon. They will be overseeing the Winyan (Lakota: woman) camp, a woman, children, and two spirit safe space in the Oceti Sakowin camp for the winter.

Sobey Wing is a social activist who works through developing deep connections within various communities. He particular works among the electronic dance culture, indigenous cultures, and the spirit plant medicine field.