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• March 5, 2025Uncategorized

  EP 28: IndigiQueer Cosmologies in Planetary Health with Lewis Williams and Jordan Ramnarine  

  Despite the proliferation of climate justice debates, equity considerations remain predominantly western, human centric, and exclusionary. Further, IndigiQueer impacts and perspectives continue to be marginalized, although as we hear from […]

• November 12, 2025Uncategorized

  EP 42: ‘Āina Education: A framework and conversation about restoring relationships between people and place with Maya Saffery  

  Land-based or place-based education is probably a well-known pedagogical framework for folks working in Indigenous education. For our guest this week, Dr. Maya Saffery, a Kanaka ʻŌiwi cultural practitioner, educator, […]

• October 29, 2025Uncategorized

  EP 41: The Audacity of Indigenous Art/ists: A Conversation with Zena Cumpston 

  As academic institutions in the United States experience a dramatic defunding of research related to decolonization, in Canada and Australia, these efforts are ongoing and accelerating. Given the larger political […]

• October 15, 2025Uncategorized

  EP 40: Co-creating transformative art from Turtle Island to Palestine with Smokii Sumac and Zaynab Mohammed 

  This powerful episode explores art as a practice of resistance, healing, and connection across lands and lineages. Guest hosts Kathryn Stone and Brenda Jimenez are joined by guests Smokii Sumac, […]

• October 1, 2025Uncategorized

  EP 39 From Stories on the Trapline to Protocols in Playhouses: Indigenous Resurgence through the Performing Arts with Reneltta Arluk 

  In this episode, Heather sits down with Reneltta Arluk, a performing arts artist and Indigenous arts advocate and leader. We get to hear beautiful stories from Reneltta of growing up […]

• September 17, 2025Uncategorized

  EP 38: Curation as Ceremonial Political Practice, a conversation with Léuli Eshrāghi 

  Join Hōkū in this episode as she sits down with Léuli Eshrāghi, Curator of Indigenous Practices at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. For Léuli, this role goes beyond curating […]

• September 3, 2025Uncategorized

  EP 37: Go! Go! Stop! Land-based Wellness with Sandra Martin Harris 

  We are back from our summer break! Before we get started, stop! Take a deep breath in … and … out. Pause. Where is the sun in the territory you’re […]

• August 20, 2025Uncategorized

  Replay: Slugs and frogs, the underdogs of planetary health with Sarah Jim

  Summer break continues, and art meets planetary health in a replayed episode with Sarah Jim. Through her paintings, Sarah reminds us of small but mighty relations.   One of the key […]

• August 6, 2025Uncategorized

  Replay: Supporting Indigenous health through governance and stewarding the land and waters with Dr. Shannon Waters 

  Continuing with our summer break, let’s revisit an old episode with Dr. Shannon Waters. As a physician frustrated with a health system focused on sickness, Shannon talks about what keeps us […]

• July 23, 2025Uncategorized

  Replay: Centering the Earth in Indigenous Planetary Health with Dr. Nicole Redvers 

  Co-hosts Heather and Hōkū are taking a break this summer, so journey back with us to listen to the first ever guest on the Indigenous Planetary Health Podcast, Dr. Nicole […]

• July 9, 2025Uncategorized

  EP 36: When the Pine Needles Fall, a discussion with Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel 

  In this episode, Heather and Hoku speak with Katsi’tsakwas (Ellen Gabriel) about her recently published memoir, When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance (co-authored with Sean Carleton). Ellen is […]