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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 […]

• February 18, 2026Uncategorized

  EP 48: Mariana Islands Part Three: Protecting & Liberating the Archipelago, a conversation with Our Commonwealth 670 (OCW 670) 

  In July 2025, Tiara and Hoku spent nearly a week in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) on the islands of Saipan and Tinian. They shared a meal with members of Our Commonwealth 670, (OCW 670), a non-profit […]

• February 4, 2026Uncategorized

  EP47: The Mariana Islands Part Two: Listening to the land, a conversation with Franceska de Oro

  Join us for part two of our special three-part series on the Mariana Islands. This week, Dr. Tiara Na’puti interviews Franceska De Oro, a CHamoru/Filipina Native Rights Advocate, environmental activist, cultural practitioner, healer, artist, fashion designer, and yoga teacher who was born and raised in Guåhan. Tiara and Franceska reflect on the lasting trauma […]

• January 21, 2026Uncategorized

  EP 46: The Mariana Islands: A three-part series 

  This week on the podcast, we’re launching a special three-part series recorded in the Mariana Islands with Dr. Tiara Na’puti, a member of our Archipelagos research collective. In early July 2025, the Archipelagos […]

• January 7, 2026Uncategorized

  EP 45: What Side Are You On? A Tohono O’odham Life Across Borders, a conversation with authors Mike Wilson and Tony Lucero

  In this week’s episode, Hoku is joined by guest co-host and podcast research assistant Melialani Hamilton, a new PhD student in IGOV. Together, they interview Michael Wilson a Tohono O’odham human rights activist, U.S. military retiree, […]

• December 10, 2025Uncategorized

  EP 44: Grief, Kinship, and Indigenous Futures with Jeffery Ansloos

  In this week’s episode, Hoku speaks with Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos, Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and Social Policy at the University of Toronto, and a citizen of Fisher River Cree Nation. A […]

• November 26, 2025Uncategorized

  EP 43: Caring for Country: A Kamilaroi Father–Son Story of Climate Leadership with Brad and Kye Moggridge 

  Indigenous communities worldwide have long maintained deep, reciprocal relationships with their environments, sustaining ecosystems through traditional ecological knowledge and interconnected land management practices. Colonization, however, displaced many Indigenous peoples from their homelands […]

• 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 […]