In this episode, Melissa Nelson interviews two Native scientist colleagues, Frank Lake and Lydia Jennings, at the annual 2023 Ecological Society of America conference in Portland, Oregon, where they discuss Indigenous ecologies, the history of the TEK section, and data sovereignty.
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In this episode, Melissa Nelson interviews two Native scientist colleagues, Frank Lake and Lydia Jennings, at the annual 2023 Ecological Society of America conference in Portland, Oregon, where they discuss Indigenous ecologies, the history of the TEK section, and data sovereignty.
In this episode, Melissa Nelson interviews two Native scientist colleagues, Frank Lake and Lydia Jennings, at the annual 2023 Ecological Society of America conference in Portland, Oregon, where they discuss Indigenous ecologies, the history of the TEK section, and data sovereignty.
Roxanne Swentzell, Anne LaForti and Sara El Sayed engage around regenerative concepts, soil, permaculture, and how TEK and Western science can be woven together to heal ecosystems.
PennElys Droz, Maibritt Pedersen Zari and Lily Urmann, explore cosmologies, paradigm shifts and how to be in good relationship as humans within creation, outline principles of regenerative design in communities, engage in decolonization and learn from Indigenous ecological relationships.
Sara El-Sayed hosts this conversation on biomimicry and Indigenous knowledges, exploring ethical spaces of engagement for biomimicry practitioners and Indigenous knowledge-holders.
Dayna Baumeister joins Melissa K. Nelson in a conversation guest hosted by Sara El-Sayed to explore the common ground and map the divergences between Indigenous science and biomimicry.
Lakota leader James Rattling Leaf, a global Indigenous consultant and Gwen Bridge, a Cree First Nations environmental leader with host and Native ecologist Melissa Nelson have conversation about the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).
We honor the voice and wisdom of Rose Imai, a beloved Tuscarora elder who passed into the spirit world on April 22nd, 2022. In this free-flowing conversation, Rose and host Melissa K Nelson traverse many topics, from the song of corn to the harmonics of abundance.
Guest Host Sara Moncada sits down with Chef Crystal Wahpepah in Wahpepah’s Kitchen, her newly opened Native-owned restaurant in Oakland, California. In a wide-ranging and intimate conversation, they discuss Crystal’s vision of what it means to be an Indigenous Food Warrior: nourishing community through cooking and serving Native foods and educating the next generation on the power and beauty of traditional Indigenous food systems.
Host Melissa Nelson sits down on the land for a wide-ranging conversation with Ohlone leader Corrina Gould of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, discussing rematriating Indigenous homelands, the history and strategy of land trusts and Native land taxes, resilience hubs in the Bay Area, and much more.
Host Melissa Nelson talks with Becky Webster, Oneida farmer, seedkeeper and attorney. They explore the challenges and joys of being a Native farmer, cultivating recently rematriated crops, navigating both market and trade economies, and more.
Host Melissa Nelson talks with Jessika Greendeer of the Ho-Chunk Nation and Dream of Wild Health in this first of three episodes focused on Seed Rematriation.
Acoma Pueblo writer, poet, and storyteller Simon J. Ortiz on the intricacies of traditional tribal identities, the wonder of our traditional foods, and our role as Indigenous peoples in the future of ‘green’ urban development on our traditional territories; he also shares his poem, Deer Dinner.
Rooting us further into the Indigenous cosmologies of the Pacific (Moana), podcast host Melissa Nelson catches up with Hawaiian Cartographer Renee Pualani Louis during a writers’ retreat at the Mesa Refuge in Point Reyes, California.
Māori knowledge-holders Wikuki Kingi (Māori) and Tania Wolfgramm (Māori/Tongan) as they take us into the deep waters of Pacific Islander cosmologies, technologies, and foodways.
Knowledge-keeper Redbird delivers a richly detailed message celebrating diversity and enlightening us with part of what he calls The Operating Manual for Taking Care of California, during The Cultural Conservancy’s annual Spring Planting Day.
Redbird walks us gently through the changes to Pomo and Coast Miwok lands, the importance of certain plants and animals to the first peoples of this area, and the realities, responsibilities, and roles immigrants to California must take on to be in good relation with native California.
Join us for Part 2 of Food Is Medicine with Native chefs Lois Ellen Frank and Walter Whitewater as we continue exploring their work on My Native American Power Plate, tribal-specific food cultures, decolonizing our diets, and handing off traditional food knowledge to the next generation.
Native chefs Lois Ellen Frank and Walter Whitewater share their knowledge of Native cuisine, healing through food, and the intercultural unity that can emerge through shared food traditions, or what they call “cultural foodscapes.”
A multi-vocal conversation on Indigenous foods and foodways, from intertidal coastal gathering to moose hunting to wild rice gathering. This intertribal conversation demonstrates the diversity of Indigenous foodways and their critical cultural and nutritional significance to Native peoples, historically and for today.
In this episode, Melissa Nelson interviews two Native scientist colleagues, Frank Lake and Lydia Jennings, at the annual 2023 Ecological Society of America conference in Portland, Oregon, where they discuss Indigenous ecologies, the history of the TEK section, and data sovereignty.
