In this episode, host Lyla June interviews two Palestinians who work with Sabeel, a Palestinian Christian group in Jerusalem. They work for Palestinian liberation within the context of the settler Zionism of the USA-Israel alliance. We discuss 1) how they are the original and Indigenous Christians of that land, 2) what gives us hope, 3) what the world can do amidst the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people, 4) what it means to be a Palestinian Christian, and 5) how they have spent their lives as Palestinian men working for a better world and what it means to work for a better world.

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In this episode, host Lyla June interviews two Palestinians who work with Sabeel, a Palestinian Christian group in Jerusalem. They work for Palestinian liberation within the context of the violent and  well funded militarism, apartheid, and occupation of the settler Zionism of the USA-Israel alliance. We discuss 1) what gives us hope, 2) what the world can do amidst the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people, 3) what it means to be a Palestinian Christian, and 4) how they have spent their lives as Palestinian men working for a better world and what it means to work for a better world. 

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Indigenous People of Turtle Island (ala North America) have been intentionally burning the landscape for millennia with low intensity burns. This cycles the nutrients of dead grasses in the fall into mineral rush ash, that nourishes the seeds and shoots for the coming spring. It also curtails incoming vegetation that may compete with old growth or other highly selected trees. It helps to keep the trees in the forest spaced widely apart to prevent crowding which results in many dehydrated, nutrient poor, shaded trees, instead of a few healthy trees with plenty of nutrients, sunlight and water. In this episode we talk with three members of the Karuk Tribe, Vikki Preston, Frankie Tripp and Leece Larue. We discuss the tribe's proactive, cultural use of prescribed fires. These prescribed burns are important to wildland systems in the Klamath River region, bringing new life, growth and protection from larger, more rapidly burning wild fires.  While working with local departments, the Karuk peoples are able to put fire on the ground and educate those in their area why and how these practices should be done to ensure a safe, purposeful burning, that may not happen when left up to official departments alone controlling these prescribed burnings. Join along as they share their stories and what this work means to then


To learn more about the Karuk Tribe, visit their website.

To learn more about Vikki Preston, visit her Instagram.

To learn more about Leece Larue, visit their Linkedin or Instagram.

In this episode, we talk with Beverly Longid, an Igorot (Indigenous Philippine) woman of the Bontok-Kankanaey  community. We discuss her efforts with KATRIBU (Kalipunan ng Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas)—a national alliance of Indigenous Peoples  in the Philippines, to protect the land and environment. The organization is striving to help others understand the land should be protected. While not against land development overall, they are focusing on development that not only helps Indigenous Peoples, but the country as a whole. The pushback they are receiving is detrimental manifests as unlawful imprisonment, extrajudicial killings, and other forms of severe repression, all for saying the earth is sacred and should be protected.  As they continue with their mass movement, they are looking for the support of not only their country, but people across the world to show their support.


To learn more about Beverly Longid, visit her LinkedIn.

To learn more about KATRIBU, visit their Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
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In this episode, we talk with Grace Johnson about traditional Indigenous parenting techniques, from rites of passage to holding our babies when they cry. We also speak with Misty Flowers about the recent win for the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) which was recently challenged by a white family that wanted the right to take a Native child over an available native family because it was a "racist" priority. We also speak with Elizabeth Lovejoy Brown about epigenetics and how what our ancestors experience can affect our behavior today at least three generations forward, how we feel things and we don't know why. We are so grateful for this discussion on how to take care of our children today. 

In this episode, we speak with Sherlien Sanches of the Kaliña Nation of Suriname, a country in Abya Yala (South America). Her peoples were colonized and enslaved by the Netherlands starting in the 1500s. She currently lives in Amsterdam to advocate and educate for her people, where she helped create the Indigenous Knowledge Center. There are currently the bodies of Kalina babies in the basements of Dutch museums in preserved water. Part of her work is to rematriate their bodies to proper places of dignity and respect. She also is working to include Indigenous Peoples in the Netherlands reparations effort and not allowing them to “start” history with transatlantic slavery, but remember that it started with the enslavement of Indigenous People in Suriname. She is working to help the Indigenous Nations of Suriname (such as the Kaliña [Carib], Lokono [Arawak], Trio [Tirio, Tareno] and Wayana) be more visible both in the Netherlands and in the world! We in Turtle Island are deeply connected to Suriname because the only reason we have New York City as a British rather than Dutch colony is because it was "traded" by colonial genocidal maniacs to the British in exchange for Suriname. There are many parallels to her peoples position and that of Indigenous People in what some call the USA. Please listen, learn, enjoy, and act!

To learn more about her rematriation effort feel free to watch the following film: https://vimeo.com/858891304?fbclid=IwAR221GbCJS0RFp3p154ygV8lMHyfUFNm3k-bx2ldo-DovcGv6UrzPky0Iec_aem_AeJSA1GjmR8BokqrmXFy_J5gyZs5ty5uqvzpU1yRDgWVFoaHcrkWTwbGG2cKn2V0WT8

Two sisters from different cultural backgrounds discuss the beautiful ways in which Black and Indigenous struggles intersect and have the potential to strengthen one another. Lyla June, of the Diné (Navajo) Indigenous Nation and host of Nihizhi Podcast, speaks with Katina Stone-Butler, musician, advocate, and host of the Black History for White People podcast. They also have hard conversations about the tragic histories and contemporary ways these two demographics have not always supported each other. Ultimately the two sisters band together in renewed commitment to stand solidly together in their respective struggles for Black and Indigenous liberation.

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Join us, as we delve into the brilliant mind of Indigenous illustrator, cosplayer, comic book creator, Indiginerd, and organizer of áyACon, Denver’s new Indigenous arts convention (www.ayacondenver.art). As a Sičangu Lakota/Tsalagi woman, we are going to learn more about how she is helping to Indigenize the space of fandom, heroes, comic conventions to be more about kinship, support, multiracial unity, and Indigenous liberation.

Website: https://www.badhandillustrations.art/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/napesica

In this episode Lyla June and Mona Haydar discuss the similarities between Turtle Island and the various cultures of Islam. Their discussion covers treating animals with honor, the importance of Creator, and the characterization of "savages," as an imperial framing used to justify the extraction of their homelands' resources. Their conversation also reviews the ways in which European forces have appropriated their culture's global contributions-- America’s democracy for instance was deeply influenced by the Haudenosaunee Indigenous Confederacy; European sciences were heavily influenced by pre-inquisition Islamic universities; and Arabian horses were co-opted and retitled as European horses. Join us for this fascinating conversation! 
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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!