EP1: Welcome to the Indigenous Planetary Health Podcast

The Indigenous Planetary Health Podcast features artists, activists, and academics working to heal our planet through Indigenous-led resurgence. In this episode, co-hosts, Heather Castleden and Hokulani Aikau will introduce you to a few of the folks who comprise the Archipelago of Indigenous-led Resurgence for Planetary Health, including Carey Newman (Master Carver), Dawn Smith (Nuu-chah-nulth Governance), Heather Igloliorte (Curator), and Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles (Indigenous Geographies).

Heather and Hoku will also introduce themselves and explain why they have embarked on this new journey, bringing you conversations with folks from the Archipelagos Collective who are tackling the triple crisis of colonialism, extractivism, and racism, for which climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution are the symptoms.  

This podcast is created by the Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health at the University of Victoria, with production from Cited Media. We are supported by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.