Nihizhi, Our Voices: An Indigenous Solutions Podcast Lyla June

In this episode, Nikyle and Kelli passionately discuss the Indigenous practice of sheep herding as a living, breathing system, spanning across centuries despite colonization and its recurring narrative that seeks to erase us. Our conversation also delves into sheep as relatives, an indivisible entity within a wholistic framework of subsistence living practices, wholly spiritual as food, song, clothing, and an embodiment of land. Join us!

In this episode, Chef Crystal Wahpepah (James Beard Award Winner) of the Kickapoo Nation discusses our connection to food as it relates to living close to the land, and honoring our responsibilities and gifts as Indigenous people. Her new restaurant, Wahpepah's Kithcen has opened in Ohlone Lands (Oakland, CA) and is a must visit site for artistic and high quality Indigenous foods and dishes. 

Website: https://wahpepahskitchen.com
Instagram: @WahpepahsKitchen
TikTok: @WahpepahsKitchen
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WahpepahsKitchen

In this episode, we celebrate and uplift Tall Paul's recent album release "The Story of Jim Thorpe." A concept biographical album honoring the life of Jim Thorpe (1887-1953), athlete and Olympic gold medalist of the Sac and Fox Nation.  We also get a chance to hear about the needs and challenges that Native men (and men in general) face and ways to overcome them. Thank you for listening!

Listen to the full album here: 
https://tallpaulhiphop.bandcamp.com/album/the-story-of-jim-thorpe

Sherri Mitchell, author of Sacred Instructions, reviews the many-layered causes of lateral violence (or the ways in which colonization turns communities against each other) as well as the flourishing “lateral kindness” that is revitalizing across Turtle Island. Join us!

To learn more about Sherri Mitchell, visit her website at www.sacredinstructions.life

We speak with Monaeka Flores of the Chamorro Indigenous Community of Guåhan (colonially known as Guam). She works with Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian and other groups working to protect water, land, sacred sites and advocate for the demilitarization of their precious island. In these transmissions, hope burgeons from shared song and protest, as affinity between Indigenous brothers and sisters is internationally contextualized to offer connection. Through our shared histories, what occupies and pollutes people, land, and waters is both acknowledged and named. Alongside this recurring narrative of both horror and caliber, we observe the beating of butterfly wings that inflect and ripple through our awareness as tranquil, powerful, and crowning as the Eight-Spot Butterfly, an endemic species found only in Guåhan. Monaeka shares with us whats working, what gives them hope, and how we can continue these challenging yet essential fights. Join us! Visit @PrutehiLitekyan on Instagram for more info.

Join us in this immersive and inspiring episode with Karen Rodriguez (Maya) as we recount her journey from the urban streets of Los Angeles as an immigrant to the sacred volcanoes and lakes of Guatemala, her homelands. In these tellings, Rodrigues un-cradles from economic capitalism to realize true power-- that of community and living in the rhythm of the natural currents. In this episode, Rodriguez shares with us the walking, the crying-- and above all the empowerment of returning to our homelands. Join us!