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In this Episode we sit down and learn about Maori Instruments and the soundscape they create. This was one of my favorite podcasts to date!! Such an amazing guest and the subject was engaging and fun.

Te Kahureremoa is multidisciplinary in her art practice. She

https://www.haumanucollective.com/te-kahureremoa-taumata/

We are fortunate to sit and have a quick catch up with our relative from Aotearoa. She is an amazing artist and truly inspiring.

Tāwera Tahuri is a mixed media artist covering a wide range

https://www.taweratahuri.com

Artist, curator and project manager Margaret Aull works in installation, painting and sculpture. Based in Te Awamutu she has exhibited in Fiji, Australia, Morocco, Aotearoa and has been working in the Arts for over 20 years. A strong advocate of the importance of artists and their role in the community, she also facilitates a number of wananga aimed at bringing artists together to support their practice. 'My practice has always been centred around social, political and cultural themes that thread in whakapapa, whenua, ritual and belief systems. I am a multimedia artist in which rangahau informs the exploration of my ideas through installation, sculpture and painting'.

The focus of Derek’s work is first and foremost in his connection to home, to Tairāwhiti, the Marae and in his role as Ahorangi Professor and mentor at Toihoukura, School of Visual Arts Maori, in Gisborne.

Oh By The Way he travels with the Aotearoa (New Zealand) Olympic Rugby Team and has helped them design and perform the HAKA!!!!! HE IS AN AMAZING PERSON.

Professor Derek Lardelli is regarded as one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s finest exponents of the arts and has been prominent in explaining and promoting Māori arts to audiences in New Zealand, the Pacific and around the world. Derek continues to promote language revitalization within an arts context, portraying a future pathway for our youth.

I speak with Ross John Jr. (Cattaraugus Seneca, Snipe Clan) to discuss the celebrating and organizing of the 40th Anniversary Jim Thorpe Longest Run, Ross Jr. did a deep dive into the background of the Longest Run. He found a way to bring the commemoration of this monumental run to the Seneca Nation and he has plans to expand out.

Jonathan Meikle is an Afghanistan war veteran from Norway House Cree Nation, approximately 800 km north of Winnipeg. There, he experienced what it was like to live in a community with the social difficulties that reserves in Canada are faced with, mainly as a result of inter-generational trauma acquired through colonization, the residential school system and the sixties scoop

Jonathan lives Winnipeg where he’s involved in grassroots initiatives including Winnipeg’s Bear Clan Patrol. He’s active in the addictions community, learning about traditional teachings, seeking knowledge in community economic development and advocating for community-based solutions. To stay active, Jonathan is a competitive boxer out of the Stingers Boxing Academy.

World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference 2024

Joe Williams is a (Wiradjuri/Wolgalu 1st Nations Aboriginal man). Having lived a portion of his life as a professional athlete, Joe played in the National Rugby League before switching to professional Boxing in 2009. As a boxer Joe was a 2x WBF World Jnr Welterweight and WBC Asia Continental champion. Although forging a successful professional sporting career, Joe battled the majority of his life with crippling mental health challenges. In 2014 Joe founded mental health & wellbeing organisation, The Enemy Within. It’s time to do things #OurWay #OurWayAcademy @ourway_academy @theenemywithin_

@wispc2024

The 40th Anniversary of "the Great Jim Thorpe's Longest Run" with Ross John Sr. (Seneca Nation, Beaver Clan) and Jerry McDonald (Akwesasne Mohawk, Wolf Clan)

May 24th - July 19th will be the 40th anniversary of "the Great Jim Thorpe Longest Run". In 1984, as a way to bring public awareness to reinstate Jim Thorpe's 1912 Olympic decathlon and pentathlon gold medals, a group of Native runners ran from NYC to LA over the course of 58 days, covering 3,900 miles along the way. Part run, part spiritual experience, and part protest, they ran sometimes up to 140 miles a day through various cities and Native communities.

In this Episode I sit down with Santee Smith (Six Nations Kahnyen'kehaka, Turtle Clan) Creative Producer/Director/Performer: "The Mush Hole" Truth, Acknowledgement, Resilience.
Santee is a multidisciplinary artist from the Kahnyen’kehàka Nation, Turtle Clan, Six Nations of the Grand River, Haldimand Treaty Territory. As a creative she is dedicated to cultivating space for embodied storytelling, collaboration, exchange through performance and cultural talks, work with land and earth/clay. In 2005 she founded Kaha:wi Dance Theatre and also works as a independent artist on projects such as The Mush Hole, and Talking Earth installation at the Gardiner Museum. Her practice is process and for her the process is full bodied, ceremonial in intent and crafted through research with knowledge keepers and sites/land. Smith trained at Canada’s National Ballet School, completed Physical Education and Psychology degrees from McMaster University and a M.A. in Dance from York University.

Discussing the Great Law and what we might be able to find in Material Culture that can explain our way of life prior to European Contact.

Bringing Back Jamie Jacobs for a unique perspective on the Great Law and Material Culture of Haudenosaunee People.

We need to find ways to bring our communities back together. Our culture is strong and rich with information, we need to find our path back to a Good Mind.