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• April 30, 2025Uncategorized

  EP 31: Kairangahou: Weaving Māori Knowledge with Helen Moewaka-Barnes 

  In this episode, Heather and Melissa Quesnelle chat with leading Māori health researcher Dr. Helen Moewaka Barnes about her pathway to becoming a health researcher and how she approaches her work. […]

• April 16, 2025Uncategorized

  Ep 30: “I was meant to do this!” A conversation with Simon Brascoupé 

  In this episode, Heather chats with longtime friend and colleague Simon Brascoupé. Simon has a lifetime of Indigenous advocacy to share with us, including the origins of Earth Summit (92’), […]

• April 2, 2025Uncategorized

  Ep 29: Getting dirty: A conversation with Dr. Melissa Nelson 

  In this episode, Hōkū sits down with Dr. Melissa Nelson to discuss love, gender, and sustainable futures, all through the lens of ecology, or as she puts it, the study […]

• 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 19, 2025Uncategorized

  EP 27: Listening to the Ancestors with Dr. Tommy Happynook  

  Carey Newman joins Heather for this episode to chat with ḥapinyuuk (Tommy Happynook). Tommy is čačaac̓iiʕasʔatḥ from huuʕiiʔatḥ (Huu-ay-aht First Nations). He is both ḥaw̓iiḥ (a hereditary chief) and a researcher with […]

• February 5, 2025Uncategorized

  EP 26:The Praxis of Indigenous Environmental Repossession: A conversation with Dr. Chantell Richmond and Dr. Renee Pualani Louis

  Governments and international governmental organizations’ responses to global environmental crises are failing; Indigenous environmental repossession, where it’s happening, is working. In their book, Because This Land Is Who We Are, […]

• January 22, 2025Uncategorized

  EP25: No More Sacrifice Zones: A Conversation with Indigenous Climate Activist Eriel Tchekwie Deranger

  In this episode, Heather and Hōkū sit down with winner of the 2024 Climate Breakthrough Award, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, a a Dënesųłiné Indigenous rights and climate activist. Eriel was raised […]

• January 8, 2025Uncategorized

  EP24: Yup, we’re still Making Space for Indigenous Feminism: A conversation with Dr. Gina Starblanket

  For decades, Indigenous feminists have documented how colonization and hetero-normative patriarchy have eroded, erased, and eclipsed Indigenous women, Two-Spirit, queer, and feminine men’s contributions to land governance, cultural transmission of […]

• December 11, 2024Uncategorized

  EP 23: Busting the ‘Illusion of inclusion’ myth at COP29 with Climate Leader Janna Wale 

  In our first episode of season two, Heather and Hōkū are thrilled to be hosting Janna Wale, a young Indigenous leader working to heal the planet through place-based, community-engaged practices. […]

• November 27, 2024Uncategorized

  EP22: Indigenous economic prosperity is part and parcel of Indigenous planetary health with Dr. Susanne Theissen

  In this episode, Heather Castleden and guest co-host Melissa Quesnelle sit down with Dr Susanne Theissen, who talks about how her life story animates the work she does with Indigenous communities. Armed […]