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Charlie Amáyá Scott — “Choosing and Loving Ourselves”

Note: This episode was recorded when Amáyá was using the name Charlie. You’ll hear us refer to her as Charlie throughout the episode; however, she now goes by Amáyá, as reflected below. We're kicking off this season of Tending Our Roots with guest Amáyá Scott, a Diné scholar, writer, and creator w…

Sharon Day — “The River Talks to Me”

Welcome to Tending Our Roots with Sharon Day, a two-spirit elder from the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe.  Sharon is a water walker, artist, and activist whose life’s work is rooted in ceremony and love for all our relations. As the longtime Executive Director of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force, she’…

Michael Migizi Sullivan — “Speaking Our Languages Shamelessly, Unapologetically, and Fearlessly”

Join Tending Our Roots with Michael “Migizi” Sullivan Sr., a linguist, researcher, educator and storyteller from the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Nation.  Migizi is a leading practitioner devoted to the revitalization of the Ojibwe language and a father of four proficient Ojibwe speakers. He reminds…

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson — “The Coexistence of Creation and Grief”

This week we’re Tending Our Roots with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, musician, and scholar.  Leanne teaches through story, song, and movement — reminding us that knowledge lives in relationships. In her newest book, Theory of Water, she writes through creation and…

Linda Tuhiwai Smith — “Family, Community, and Land”

On this week’s episode of Tending Our Roots, we sit down with Māori scholar, Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou) — the grandmother of Indigenous research.   Linda’s guided generations through her groundbreaking book Decolonizing Methodologies. In conversation, she speaks with warmth, humi…

Melinda Adams — “We Burn the Things We Want Back”

Join us as we sit down with Melinda Adams, a cultural fire practitioner and scholar from the N’dee San Carlos Apache Tribe and the Tohono O’odham Nation.  Melinda brings together ecology, ceremony, and Indigenous science in her work. As an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas, she studi…

Susan Beaulieu — “Re-membering: The Pathway to Healing”

This week we’re Tending Our Roots with Susan Beaulieu, an Anishinaabe woman and citizen of the Red Lake Nation who has spent two decades working with Indigenous communities and the last decade supporting healing from collective, ancestral, and individual trauma.  A facilitator, teacher, and studen…

Shawn Wilson — “It’s a Way of Life”

Listen as we visit with Shawn Wilson, a researcher, teacher, and storyteller from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in northern Canada.  Shawn reminds us that research itself can be ceremony. Now based on Syilx territory in British Columbia, Shawn’s work spans continents — from Turtle Island to Australia…

Shakara Liddelow-Hunt — “The Ancestors Are Reflected in Them.”

Our guest this week is Shakara (Shak) Liddelow-Hunt, a researcher, advocate, and community builder centering the mental health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQIA+ young people.   Shak is Wajarri Yamatji and grew up on Noongar Country. Their work challenges Western resea…

Sean Sherman — “Taking the Power of Food Back”

Join us for our season finale of Tending Our Roots with chef, author, and food sovereignty visionary Sean Sherman, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation.  Sean is transforming the landscape of Indigenous cuisine. Through his work with the nonprofit NATIFS and his award-winning restaurant Owamni (so…