The Comeback Podcast

In this episode of The Comeback Podcast: The Return, Alicia sits down with Colin Arlt, founder of the Buffalo Culture Collective, for a powerful conversation on leadership through education and the sacred teachings of the buffalo.

Colin shares how his Michif heritage and passion for education led him to create a movement grounded in cultural resurgence—rematriating buffalo skulls and teachings back to communities, and using these connections to inspire the next generation of leaders.

Together, they explore what it means to lead with spirit, honour our ancestors, and draw strength from the buffalo’s teachings of resilience, kinship, and renewal.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify and coming soon to Apple Podcasts.

In this episode of The Comeback Podcast: The Return, we sit down with Betty Nippi-Albright, a fierce Saulteaux and Cree leader and the MLA for Saskatoon Centre. Betty speaks truth to power — and backs it with action. From challenging colonial structures to advocating for health equity and Indigenous sovereignty, her work in the Legislature is rooted in lived experience, community, and justice.

We talk about what it means to be an Indigenous woman in political leadership, the emotional toll of carrying truth in colonial spaces, and how she’s using her voice to push for real change in systems that were never built for us.

This isn’t just a conversation — it’s a lesson in courage, conviction, and what it means to lead without compromise.

Surprise! We are back for a quick catch up! Lexie is currently living out of a tent in northern Alberta and Alicia took a quick detour to catch up! The sisters chatted all things life and steps they have taken or currently taking to live the most authentic selves. The sisters recorded this episode on the ground in the "bush" enjoy the nature sounds and the conversations they were able to have. 

We love you all and thank you so much for the support. Our conversations are special and we are happy to share them with you.  

Tansi,

sit down with the sisters this week for the final episode of the four part language revitalization series. In this episode we dive deeper into the meaning of interconnected. The cree language is inseparably from the land, and Dr. Belinda Daniels provides the sisters with a variety of examples to further expand our knowledge. Dr. Daniels provided us with a new insight on our reclaiming journey and we hope you take something from this episode. We appreciate and are honoured to have sat down with each of our guests through out these last few months. 

Dr. Belinda kakiyosēw Daniels was Raised by her maternal grandparents, Dr. Belinda (kakiyosēw) Daniels is from the community of pakitahwākan sākahikan - Sturgeon Lake First Nation, SK. Later in life after undergraduate studies, she began a journey in nēhiyawēwin (Cree) language recovery, inspired by having and raising her family. She is self-taught and now teaches others how to teach and learn a 2 nd Indigenous Language with the University of Victoria and through a not-for-profit organization called nēhiyawak Language Experience, which she founded 18 years ago.

Belinda is a Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan of the Interdisciplinary Department, Graduate Studies. She holds the Canadian Teachers Federation, Outstanding Indigenous Educator Award of 2015, has been recognized Globally and was one of a top 50 finalists for the Global Teacher Prize of 2016, she has a long list of notable accolades.

Tansi, 

Welcome back to another episode of the 4 part language revitalization series. Dr. Herman Michell is our third guest on our special series and we are thrilled he was able to take the time to join us and share his knowledge of the cree language, the connection between language and the land and the importance of learning just one cree word. Dr. Michelle is also a renowned published author with a new book releasing soon. Dr. Herman Michell has been involved in education since the early 1990s with a focus on the integration of Indigenous Ways of Knowing at all levels of the education system. Dr. Michell is Woodlands Cree, originally from Treaty 10 territory in northern Manitoba, the Barren Lands First Nation. Currently residing in treaty six. He is a university educator, researcher, consultant, and author of numerous books and articles that focus on Indigenous knowledge and land-based education. Dr. Michell is currently a consultant for the Prince Albert Grand Council in Saskatchewan.

kinanâskomitin Herman,

your comeback sisters.

tanisi,

and welcome back! Today we are elated to share with you our second episode in our four part language revitalization series! We are joined in conversation today with our cousin from the west, Skye Durocher. Skye is a second language learner that is sharing her journey to reclaiming nêhiyawêwin with the world. Skye created the Cree Language Challenge when she was attending Blue Quills University and is now using the platform for sharing the language on social media! In this conversation, we discuss it means and how we are deeply connected to our language journeys, how we have a responsibility to return to the language and she shares how messing up is apart of the process! This conversation is real and filled with auntie laughter. We hope you have as much fun with this one as we did! 

you can find Skye at https://www.instagram.com/cree.language.challenge/?hl=en on Instagram! 

kinanâskomitin Skye, 

your comeback sisters. 

Join the sisters this week as they recorded lived during a presentation for The Rising Youth Northern Indigenous Perspectives Conference. The sisters focused on the creation of the comeback, why community and kinship is so important to them. The community on our socials and in regina are driving force to making the comeback possible. We believe our relationships is what has made the comeback successful. Thanks for being on this journey with us. 

tanisi Comeback Kin! Our hearts our full after this conversation and we hope yours are too! We sit down with our sister from the west, Shayla Raine and talk all things healing and kinship within our Indigenous communities. She is a writer, poet, illustrator and independent author. Shayla is a student at The University of British Columbia Okanagan and is Plains Cree and an enrolled member of the Kisipatnahk tribe. She was raised on her home reserve, Maskwacis, Alberta located on Treaty Six Territory. She currently lives, studies, and works on the unceded territory of the Syilx people in the Okanagan valley in British Columbia. 

Our conversation finds itself centred around Shayla's first self-published children's book, The Way Creator Sees You. The book is a beautiful poem about empowering Indigenous youth and seeing ourselves and all our relations as gifts. Shayla shares her work with us on the podcast and gifts our listeners with a live reading that will make your spirit smile. 

This one was good medicine for us and we hope it for you too, 

Love your Comeback Sisters.

tanisi Comeback Kin, 

we are back and all recovered from covid! This week we have our favourite cousin from the south, Russell Suneagle! Rusell joins us this week to laugh (a lot) and to talk about podcasting. He is the host of the Okie Podcast and the War Party Podcast! Our cousin wears lots of hats, but most importantly he is a role model. A role model for any person who needs a reminder to show up and chose themselves! 

If you're ready to laugh or at least listen to your cousins laugh, hit play and enjoy!

your Indigenous sisters