Recent Posts
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]

About the Podcast
We’re burning down our house, and we’re in for nasty weather. But Indigenous peoples have ideas for planetary resurgence and restoration. Professors Heather Castleden and Hōkūlani Aikau bring you conversations with artists, activists, scholars, and other knowledge keepers tackling the climate crisis.
Recent Posts
- EP47: The Mariana Islands Part Two: Listening to the land, a conversation with Franceska de Oro
- EP 46: The Mariana Islands: A three-part series
- EP 45: What Side Are You On? A Tohono O’odham Life Across Borders, a conversation with authors Mike Wilson and Tony Lucero
- EP 44: Grief, Kinship, and Indigenous Futures with Jeffery Ansloos
- EP 43: Caring for Country: A Kamilaroi Father–Son Story of Climate Leadership with Brad and Kye Moggridge