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Turning Deserts to Gardens with Lyla June
How can Indigenous wisdom guide us toward a more sustainable and caring future? In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast, Cherri Jacobs Pruitt welcomes Lyla June, an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and European lineages.
Together, they explore how ancestral practices — from regenerative land stewardship to honoring sacredness in all life — offer solutions for today’s climate and cultural crises. Lyla’s insights connect environmental sustainability with how we treat each other in our homes, communities, and societies.
Her vision is clear: we can “turn deserts into gardens,” both literally and metaphorically, by embracing partnership instead of domination with the Earth and one another.
Support · Watch · Connect
🎧 Support the Power of Partnership Podcast: Buzzsprout Support Page
👉 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2207697/support
📺 Prefer to watch instead of listen? Full episodes are also available on YouTube: Power of Partnership Channel
👉 https://www.youtube.com/@centerforpartnership
📬 Connect: [email protected]
Key Themes
- Indigenous practices as blueprints for ecological balance
- Sacredness of all life as the foundation of partnership
- How collapse and crisis can teach us to re-align with creation
- Love and allyship as strategies for cultural transformation
About the Guest
Lyla June — Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and European lineages. She blends performance, poetry, and activism to advance Indigenous knowledge, ecological sustainability, and cultural healing.
👉 LylaJune.com
👉 https://www.lylajune.com
Resources & Links
- The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future — Riane Eisler
👉 Link
👉 https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/books/the-chalice-and-the-blade-our-history-our-future/ - 3000-Year-Old Solutions to Modern Problems — Lyla June (TEDx Talk)
👉 Link
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tPH7ipj69s - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — Jared Diamond
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus — Charles Mann
- Center for Partnership Systems
👉 https://centerforpartnership.org/
Music Credit
Resilience by Rising Appalachia
🎵 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx17RvPMaQ8
Support the show
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By Cherri Jacobs Pruitt with Riane EislerHow can Indigenous wisdom guide us toward a more sustainable and caring future? In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast, Cherri Jacobs Pruitt welcomes Lyla June, an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and European lineages.
Together, they explore how ancestral practices — from regenerative land stewardship to honoring sacredness in all life — offer solutions for today’s climate and cultural crises. Lyla’s insights connect environmental sustainability with how we treat each other in our homes, communities, and societies.
Her vision is clear: we can “turn deserts into gardens,” both literally and metaphorically, by embracing partnership instead of domination with the Earth and one another.
Support · Watch · Connect
🎧 Support the Power of Partnership Podcast: Buzzsprout Support Page
👉 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2207697/support
📺 Prefer to watch instead of listen? Full episodes are also available on YouTube: Power of Partnership Channel
👉 https://www.youtube.com/@centerforpartnership
📬 Connect: [email protected]
Key Themes
- Indigenous practices as blueprints for ecological balance
- Sacredness of all life as the foundation of partnership
- How collapse and crisis can teach us to re-align with creation
- Love and allyship as strategies for cultural transformation
About the Guest
Lyla June — Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and European lineages. She blends performance, poetry, and activism to advance Indigenous knowledge, ecological sustainability, and cultural healing.
👉 LylaJune.com
👉 https://www.lylajune.com
Resources & Links
- The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future — Riane Eisler
👉 Link
👉 https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/books/the-chalice-and-the-blade-our-history-our-future/ - 3000-Year-Old Solutions to Modern Problems — Lyla June (TEDx Talk)
👉 Link
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tPH7ipj69s - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — Jared Diamond
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus — Charles Mann
- Center for Partnership Systems
👉 https://centerforpartnership.org/
Music Credit
Resilience by Rising Appalachia
🎵 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx17RvPMaQ8
Support the show