Description:

This episode is with Lyla June. Lyla is a poet, musician, and author who brings a unique blend of indigenous wisdom along with western science to help humanity reconnect with nature.

In this conversation we explore:

* Wisdom of Indigenous Land Management and Food Systems

* Tensions among worldviews while working on today's big challenges

* The importance of communication and working together, rather than against

This conversation was recorded on May 24, 2023.

Bio:

Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is an Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective, and ecological healing. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans.

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