The Little Brown Podcast

From Dr. Rosalesmeza, "Decolonizing is our generation's sacred offering. May we resist it's commodification".  Our culture is not your aesthetic. Last week, we discussed how images of our people have been used as a tool to other, dehumanize, sensationalize and colonize us. This week, we're discussing how these images are still being used and how the appropriation of indigenous culture into capital only re-traumatizes indigenous people. We talk about how we come to understand and observe how cultural appropriation and misappropriation happens. The issue of cultural appropriation can be a controversial conversation, but for us it's a conversation about accountability, power, and ways we can be responsible with how we use tangible and intangible elements of indigenous heritage.

One of the goals of White Supremacy is to make us invisible to each other. It's to make us believe that our struggles have nothing to do with each other. We are here to be in community with one another and being in a community means tracing our histories and learning that our oppression has the same roots. We are closing out our discussion on movements by having a conversation about the Black Lives Matter movement and how this a movement that includes all of us. We confront our experiences of anti-blackness and how anti-blackness is perpetuated in our societies. We talk about the possibilities of communities without police and without state-sanctioned violence. And as a reflection of this 3-Part Episode, we talk about the possibilities that all of these movements have made visible to us.

What does it look like when Indigenous Movements win?    The second part of our discussion takes us to the islands of Hawai'i, where we learn about the Kānaka Maoli and their struggle to defend their sacred lands. We're honored to have Jordan Phoenix Kamuela Gestrich, our first ever guest, to give us a glimpse of the Mauna Kea movement. Join us as we talk about how movements are nurtured by solidarity and how aloha ʻāina, or love of the land, soars above all conflicts.

Being born an indigenous person is inheriting the struggle of our ancestors. Ours is a history of theft, violence, and genocide. But our history is also a history of resistance, solidarity, and grabbing the enemy by the balls - literally. This is part one of a two-part episode where we talk about the movements that have kept us alive and the movements that we are living for.

"The word, 'Igorot'", as coined and applied by the Spaniards means a "savage, headhunting and backward tribe of Luzon..." William Henry Scott quotes Luis Hora in his examination of the word, Igorot. We do our own examination and unpack what Igorot means to us. In this episode, we're going into a deep-dive of our colonial pasts and how decolonization can begin with one word.

What does it mean to be Igorot? What does it mean to resist? Tune in on the conversation as we try to unravel our indigenous identities and separate our facts from White Man's fiction.

Marie Ramos shares the complexity of being a member of multiple communities, especially in these tumultuous times. In our first episode, we want to check-in with everyone and talk about how our identities as Indigenous People are also identities of resistance, resilience, and solidarity.