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On this podcast, we bring you the voices of Indigenous People in this time of political and climate insecurity. We tackle difficult discussions on who has access to land, water, and air and offers a contemporary understanding of what it means to be Indigenous and live in relation to what is often known as the “outdoors” or “the wild.
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Here’s my hot take on voting.
Check out these resources for more information, thoughts, and history on voting. These podcast episodes give a nuanced understanding of many of the feels that come up when talking about voting on Stolen Land. Find our voting resource toolkit our website onthelandmedia.com and check out Native Peoples Action for more information on voting in Alaska.
All My Relations Podcast
"Vote(If You Want To & Can)"
Sko Vote Den Series
NDN Collective
Code Switch, an NPR Podcast
"Is Trump Really That Racist?"
"The LationX Vote Comes Of Age"
"A Historic Vote, Among Many"
Native American Calling
- "Growing the Youth Vote"
- "The Choice Whether to Vote"
On this episode we read from the Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler.
"Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all the coward fears
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who controls the fool
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery
The music from this weeks episode was made possible by the Storyteller’s Indigenous Music Library, a collective of tracks gathered by ImagineNATIVE and Bedtracks.
Songs featured:
- Time to Move
- Nation to Nation
Bush/Gore References
- Bush’s 2000 Policies - The Guardian
- "The Shadow of the 2000 Election"
The Daily
Ade’ Relatives – Ndadz Ding’ita? I have a question for you.
Where are you finding your medicine?
In this final episode from Alaska’s First Just Transition Summit we visit with Naomi Michalsen.
Naomi Michalsen, Kaasei and Daaw Da Oo (Tlingit names), is Wooshkeetaan, Eagle/Wolf of the Shark House of Berners Bay, Alaska. Naomi and her husband live in Ketchikan and have 5 adult children, and 9 grandchildren.
Naomi is the owner of Kaasei Training & Consulting, a business she started in 2014 to help inspire people to learn more about traditional foods and plants. Hiking, gathering, preserving workshops and cooking activities help participants further their understanding of our beautiful surroundings, increase appreciation for the deep cultural history of the Indigenous people of Alaska while gathering traditional plants and wild foods ethically and respectfully.
She has her certification in Ethnobotany from the UAF and has served as a cultural instructor at youth culture camps, schools and university programs. Kaasei is a safe food and home preservation instructor and indigenous foods chef.
Check out Kaasei Training and Consulting @ kaasei.com
The music for this episode was created by Evan Phillips, Creator and Host of The Firn Line Podcast
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IG: @thefirnline
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Xilegg - Spring. As the flowers come out to breathe and as the birds begin to sing their songs again humans also feel a shift. The snow begins to melt and the break up of ice is just around the corner – it’s an ominous feeling of knew of fresh. This spring is very different than the last, not only for humans in the time of COVID–19, but too for our more-than-human relatives. Our plancestors have been adapting to the changes of this world in their own crises with climate change and other anthropogenic land impacts. We have so much to learn from Plants and so much to listen for. So as spring begins and the plants grow again, as we are practicing staying still in our homes, let us also practice the beautiful art of listening. Castielljas are the flowers I always look forward to seeing the most when the season changes, for what they teach us in their beauty and in their ways of being. So happy spring listeners, what flowers are you looking forward to seeing bloom?
This is part of our new mini series called Nitommo'toto which means Relatives in Blackfeet. We see Nitommo'toto as a way to engage you - our relatives - our community. Please send in short reflections, songs, poems, and anything else that you would like to be aired. We hope to highlight the artistry and wonders of creation that come from across our communities.
Please submit your materials at onthelandpod.com!
How do we reset and ground our movements so that they are centered on the truth?
In what ways are we growing an expansive just transitions that tackle hard issues?
In this second part of our three-part bundle, I am so excited to bring you my conversation with
La quen náay Elizabeth Medicine Crow.
La quen náay Elizabeth Medicine Crow is Haida Eagle Tiits Gitee Nei, Hummingbird and Tlingit Raven Kaach Adi, Fresh Water Marked Sockeye Salmon.
La quen náay is the President and CEO of First Alaska Institute which seeks to develop the capacity of Alaskan Native peoples through community engagement, information and research, and leadership development. She received her Bachelors of Arts from Fort Lewis College and her JD from Arizona State University College of Law.
Questions for Reflection
-How are you trusting your community and or communities right now and is there an abundance of trust in and among your friends and family?
-What is the responsibility that you carry as a community member in your place of quarantine, to your local community, to a nation facing the pressures of COVID19 and to a world that is on lockdown?
-And how are we reimagining and reconstituting our trust and responsibility to the land, water, and our plant and animal relations that sustain us?
Please check out:
First Alaskan Institute: firstalaskans.org
Raye Zaragoza
Raye is a world renowned singer and song-writer who has been so generous as to let us use her songs on this episode. Please head over to her Patreon and support her work!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rayezaragoza
Website: https://www.rayezaragoza.com/
IG: rayezaragoza
On The Land Media Collective
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IG: @on.the.land
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Welcome to Decol’ Dispatches
Late night on Sunday March 22, 2020 I received a call from my cousin, Scotty Savo. For the past week I have been thinking about the what the outbreak of Coronavirus means for the 2020 sockeye salmon season in Bristol Bay, and here was my relative calling me with similar concerns.
In this first Decol’ Dispatch you will hear my conversation with Bristol Bay Native and Set Netter Scotty Savo as we discuss how COVID19 will impact our home community of South Naknek and the region of Bristol Bay if we do not take appropriate action before salmon season.
Warning: This episode contains explicit language and briefly discusses sexual assault.
In the time of Coronavirus, we return to Kotre’lenayh: Alaska’s first Just Transition Summit to bring you a bundle of stories from Winona LaDuke, Lagunai Elizabeth Medicine Crow, and Naomi Michalsen. This first episode in our three-part bundle is a conversation we had with Winona LaDuke.
Winona LaDuke is Anishinaabekwe from the White Earth Nation in what is known as Minnesota. She is the executive director and co-founder of Honor the Earth alongside the Indigo Girls. Honor the Earth is an Indigenous led environmental justice organization that supports water protectors, builds Indigenous regeneration, and is invested in the next economy through a just transition. She is also the founder of Winona’s Hemp and Heritage Farm – a two-part hemp farm and agricultural institute currently working on growing the next economy through localized, tribally led food and hemp growth. Winona is a corn grower and economist by training.
Find out more about Winona’s work using the links below:
Honor the Earth
Website: www.honorearth.org
IG: @honortheearth
Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm
Website: www.winonashemp.com
Winona Personal
IG: @winonaladuke
Website: https://www.winonaladuke.com/press
Patagonia Presents
Film: Misunderstood: A Brief History of Hemp in America
https://vimeo.com/334549461
IG: @patagonia
OTL Call to Action
For many people in Alaska, Spring is their favorite time of year, however as soon as the sun starts to shine and the days stretch longer, welcoming the midnight sun - there is one thing on my mind - Salmon Season.
Commercial fishing is one of Alaska’s top economic sources alongside the oil and gas industry and tourism. It currently sustains more than 15,000 jobs and is worth over 1.5 billion dollars. 62.3 million fish returned to the water shed 2018 with another record year following in the 2019 season.
While the commercial fishing industry supports many local peoples, most of those 15,000 jobs are held by out of state fishermen and cannery workers. Now is a crucial time to be discussing the 2020 fishing season and how it will be impacted by the Coronavirus. April is the time that many people start to make their way north to prepare for the season and our communities are not equipped to handle a possible outbreak.
We are calling on out-of-state commercial fishermen and canneries to seriously reflect on their impact in our region and reconsider the 2020 salmon season.
Our communities have already seen sickness and our elders still remember the 1919 influenza that swept through Bristol Bay. In light of this, we would like to hear from you - If you are from Bristol Bay or a community that sees a large influx of people due to fishing operations, please let us know your thoughts on the upcoming season. You can submit your testimony at onthelandmedia.com or submit a voice memo to deenaalee@onthelandpod.com. We look forward to hearing from you and appreciate you in advance for opening yourself to engaging in tis dialogue.
Amazon Flooding Community Relief
From the Go Fund Me Page
“CORONAVIRUS AND CLIMATE CRISIS - THOUSANDS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN URGENT NEED AFTER EXTREME FLOODS: As Indigenous people in the Ecuadorian Amazon fight to prevent the spread of COVID-19 into their territories, extreme floods on the Bobonaza river have caused bridges to collapse, flooded homes and food gardens threatening the livelihood of thousands of people. This is the worst flood in recent history, caused by deforestation and climate change. This is the Climate Crisis!”
Support the Indigenous people in the Amazon by contributing here -
https://www.gofundme.com/f/indigenous-communities-flooding-amazon
Raye Zaragoza
Raye is a world renowned singer and song-writer who has been so generous as to let us use her songs on this episode. Please head over to her Patreon and support her work!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rayezaragoza
Website: https://www.rayezaragoza.com/
IG: rayezaragoza
On The Land Media Collective
Website: onthelandmedia.com
IG: @on.the.land
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/creator-home
XILEGG IS HERE
And we are opening up this season by imagining and putting into action a new future for our future generations.
Welcome to Kohtr’elneyh: Remembering Forward, Alaska’s first just transition.
On this this episode you will be hearing from the voices of people that attended, spoke, and organized Alaska’s first just transition summit held January 8-10th on Lower Tanana Dene Lands.
Storytellers:
Naawéiyaa Tagaban @_naaweiyaa_
Ruth Miller @frompeaksnpinetrees
Siqiñiq Maupin @savageinupiaq
- https://www.silainuat.org/
Rochelle Adams @gwinzii
Enei Begay @eneibp
Polly Carr @pollyalaska
Jessica Girard @girardable
Kelsey Wallace @ciugun
Veri de Suvero @veriturpitude
Evon Peter @evonpeter
Will Bean @will.ah.b
George Alexi
James Temte @jrtemte
- www.Temteabstract.com
Music by:
Zachary Matthews @elephantarthur
Henry Schaefer @dicegameuchiha
Pamyua @pamyualive
Organizations:
- Alaska Just Transition - @justtransition_ak
www.akjusttransition.org
Toolkit and Zine https://www.justtransitionak.org/toolkit/
Livestream - https://www.justtransitionak.org/livestream/
- Native Movement - @native_mvmt
www.nativemovement.org
- Native Peoples Action - @nativepeoplesaction
https://nativepeoplesaction.org/
- Gwich’in Steering Committee
http://ourarcticrefuge.org/
- Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition - @fbxclimateaction
https://fairbanksclimateaction.org/
- Alaska Center - @alaskacente
https://akcenter.org/
- Alaska Public Interest Research Group - @akpirg
https://www.akpirg.org/team
- Alaska Community Action on Toxics
https://www.akaction.org/
Support Wet’suwet’en!!
- Unist’ot’en Supporter Toolkit
http://unistoten.camp/supportertoolkit2020/
- INVASION - A short documentary on Wet’suwet’en
https://www.yintahaccess.com/?fbclid=IwAR38LDec2O1ZxHLgLtrpy8KaiAeQaLeFlsOGv-ogbhC6ZgSeI4ieE3vAea4
- History and Timeline of Wet’suwet’en Protection of their lands from the Coastal Gas Link
https://www.yintahaccess.com/historyandtimeline
- Unistoten 2020 Legal Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/unistoten2020legalfund/
- Gidimt'en Fund
https://www.gofundme.com/f/gidimt039en-strong
Podcast Recommendations
Coffee and Quaq with Will Bean and Jenny Miller
https://www.coffeeandquaq.com/single-post/2018/04/23/Episode-5-LGBTQ-the-native-community
For the Wild Podcast InTheField: NUSKMATA (Jacinda Mack) on the Gold Rush That Never Ended / https://forthewild.world/listen/jacinda-mack-on-the-gold-rush-that-never-ended-160160
Use the link below to find our toolkit for resources referenced in this episode
https://www.onthelandmedia.com/toolkit-show-notes
March is here and in the Arctic we know what that means - the return of the Midnight Sun and welcoming the first season of On The Land: Xilegg - Our Arctic Presence. ⠀
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Our Arctic Presence brings you the Voices of the Arctic. In this season we visit with People from throughout the Circumpolar North, tackling difficult discussions surrounding the health and well-being of caribou, reindeer, and fish and other animal relations, the impact of thawing ice and permafrost in our communities, and dive into what we imagine our futures to look like as Arctic Indigenous Peoples. ⠀
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The syllabus for Xilegg at https://www.onthelandmedia.com/syllabus
And follow us on instagram @on.the.land
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Voices featured on this trailer
James Temte
IG @jrtemte
Website www.temteabstract.com
Martina Fjallberg
IG @martinafjallberg
Áslat Holmberg
Juno Berthelsen
IG @junojunebug1
Haliehana Stepetin
IG @indigenous_agent & @fitn8vs
Nils Ándá Baer
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Music by Zachary Arthur Matthews @elephanmt
Graphics by Laura Jaramillo
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