This week on the podcast, we’re launching a special three-part series recorded in the Mariana Islands with Dr. Tiara Na’puti, a member of our Archipelagos research collective. In early July 2025, the Archipelagos team traveled to the Mariana Islands—an archipelago of 15 islands in the Northwest Pacific—to spend time with Tiara’s community. During that visit, we held intimate conversations with Indigenous leaders, academics, and activists about militarization, healing, and what planetary health means for Micronesia. Those conversations were so powerful that we wanted to share them with you. 

The first episode in the series revisits a conversation Hoku and Heather had with Dr. Tiara Na’puti in May 2024. This interview provides essential geographical, historical, and political context for the next two new episodes, which feature activists and artists from Guåhan and Saipan.  

This podcast is created by the Archipelagos of Indigenous-led Resurgence for Planetary Health research collective. You can find out more about our research on our website: https://indigenousplanetaryhealth.ca/. We receive funding for this podcast from the Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health at the University of Victoria and from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. We receive production support from Cited Media.