Ancestral Science
Episodes
Relaunch-Healing Frequencies of Jokes, Scents, Movement, & a Crackling Fire
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a cortisol-inducing year, and with the holidays approaching, we thought re-launching a mindfulness episode would be helpful. Reconnect ...
Ancestral Science Show & Tell
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ancestral Science pod team has been wanting to do a "Show n Tell" episode for awhile...so, here we are! This is a great way to learn a bit more ab...
Smoketalk- "The OG Indigenous Bedazzle"
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hang out with the Ancestral Science Podcast Team to discuss the last episode...which was "Art & Science of Beads, Quills, Fur, Hide, & Bark" w...
Art & Science of Beads, Quills, Fur, Hide, & Bark
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded on a warm winter afternoon in 2024, at Moonstone Creation in Calgary Alberta.And amongst the company of millions of beads an...
Smoketalk - Relational Math, Tipi Aerodynamics, & Counting on your Fingers
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Smoketalk!If you haven't listened to the previous episode "Deadly Math: Movement, Kinship, & Action" with Chris Matthews, I recommend g...
Deadly Math: Movement, Kinship & Action
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We were grateful to speak with CHRIS MATTHEWS of the Quandamooka People in modern day Queensland Australia about his realization about the importance ...
Smoketalk- Food Sovereignty & Smoke Science
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Smoketalk!If you haven't listened to the previous episode "Food Sovereignty, Smoke Science, & tending the flame of Cultural Resili...
Food Sovereignty, Smoke Science, & tending the flame of Cultural Resilience
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded in fall 2024 at Star 6 Ranch at the "Harvesting Spirit" camp as hosted by HOWL (they do amazing land-bas...
Smoketalk about "Decolonizing Blood & Birth"
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Smoketalk!If you haven't listened to the previous episode "Decolonizing Blood & Birth" with Alycia Two Bears, I recommend going there f...
Decolonizing Blood & Birth
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Pod was grateful to learn from THE Alycia Two Bears, a Two-Spirit mixed Cree educator and author from Misatawasis Nêhiyawak First Nation, ab...
Smoketalk- "Indigenous Science Fiction"
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join the Ancestral Science Pod Team as we chat about the previous episode. We had some technical difficulties this week, so we decided to re-release a...
Hopping Dimensions through Humour & Metaphor
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We were grateful to speak with contemporary storyteller Drew Hayden Taylor, Ojibwe from Curve Lake First Nation about learning to write through o...
I don't know what you did last summer...
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Pod Team decided to begin Season 3 by reconnecting over Smoketalk where we chat about what we have learned over the summer, our goals fo...
Indigenous Science Fiction
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ancestral Science pod crew, Emil Starlight, Alex Flett, and Kori Chewbacca (haha), chatted about INDIGENOUS SCIENCE FICTION while recording LIVE o...
Telling Indigenous Stories: from pre-colonization science to difficult truths
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ancestral Science Podcast was grateful to speak with TCHADAS LEO, from Xwemalhkwu and Stillaguamish Nations, a journalist and tv and podcast ...
Re-Release: Decolonizing Mother Earth, One Native Plant at a Time
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Within this "active" Spring season of re-birth and re-growth, the Ancestral Science Podcast is taking a brief break to refresh and heal ourselves...so...
Hunting Mathematics
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ancestral Science Podcast was grateful to speak with PHILIP STEVENS, San Carlos Apache, Director of American Indian Studies at the University...
Music is a Universal Language of Frequency
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ancestral Science Podcast wanted to support our friend JUNO AWARD NOMINEE Walter McDonald White Bear....so... we decided to gather some friends,&n...
Pullin’ Cedar, Ancestral Trees, & the Fish Wars
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We were honoured to be recording in a cedar longhouse on the ancestral Nisqually lands of Hweqwidi HANFORD MCCLOUD. The pod chatted with Hanford along...
Nehiyaw Science of Love & Death from Grandmother Scientists
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ancestral Science Podcast was honoured to be gifted some time with TERRI CARDINAL from Saddle Lake Cree Nation. We chatted about Nêhiyaw teaching...
Space Justice & Cosmic Relationality2
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With increased conversations about journeying beyond Earth, to Mars and beyond....we thought we would re-release this timely episode we recorded in Fa...
Change Making, Anishnawbek Mathematics, & Sturgeon Legs
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join the Ancestral Science Pod and learn from CHEYENNE SEGO, about about the scientific significance of the teachings of gut feelings, Anishinabek Mat...
Healing Frequencies of Jokes, Scents, Movement, & a Crackling Fire
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ancestral Science podcast got to learn from Dr. Michael YELLOW BIRD, by first beginning with a guided meditation to ground ourselves and focus on ...
Pt2- Reconnecting the human in Science, Law, Health, & Society
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Ancestral Science podcast fam ALL got to chat with Sahtu Dene mother, wife, activist, political organizer, and podcast host MICHELLE ROBINSON (the...
Pt1- Reconnecting the human in Science, Law, Health, & Society
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Ancestral Science podcast fam ALL got to chat with Sahtu Dene mother, wife, activist, political organizer, and podcast host MICHELLE ROBINSON (the...
Gravitational Waves from the Blackfoot MacGyver
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Ancestral Science Podcast was grateful to chat with Blackfoot Physicist COREY GRAY about inspiring to be the "Blackfoot MacGyver," the connection ...
Planetary Health through Berries, Land, & Water
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Relaunching one of our favourite episodes as the Pod-fam takes some time to plan upcoming episodes, edit, and prepare our merch for upcoming holiday m...
Part 2-Quantum Entanglement "Ghosts," Shapeshifters, & Ancestral Visits
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome Back to the second part of the "Quantum Entanglement ghosts, shapeshifters, and ancestral visits" episode from the ANCESTRAL SCIENCE PODCAST. ...
Part 1-Quantum Entanglement "Ghosts," Shapeshifters, & Ancestral Visits
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After many conversations about the "seemingly irrational" experiences we all have had, the Ancestral Science Pod team decided to gather some cool peop...
Reciprocity, Resilience & Tapwe (truth) within Indigenous Cuisine
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cree Chef Shane Chartrand with us out on location at CHARCUT University District. Through kitchen pedagogy of breaking bread to expand relationality, ...
Wayfinding through Relational Trigonometry of Stars, Swells, and Spirit
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We were grateful to speak with Dr. KAMUELA YONG, a Native Hawaiian mathematician about how mathematics is all around us, calculating latitude by North...
Friends of Indigenous Science
08 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ancestral Science was honored to speak with Drs. MIWA TAKEUCHI & EUN-JI AMY KIM and learn how to be an ally/friend to Indigenous Science. We learn...
Reconciliation Science through Tipi Math & Indigenous Sound Baths
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We were grateful to speak with Brendon Many Bears from Siksika, and Darren Rea, who is Cree Métis about how relational science is magical and indescr...
OG Science of corn calendars, seed ceremonies, & sun daggers
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It was a warm late spring morning, just before solstice, filming on Treaty 4 Lands within the beautiful Fort Qu'Appelle Valley.We were grateful to spe...
Everything is Aware: Quantum Consciousness & Spirit in Science
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We were grateful to NATASHA DONAHUE, a Métis physicist and Indigenous Science educator, about Science and Spirituality, the linear and restrictive hi...
Alignment of Planets, Stars, & Stories
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we waited for the First Thunder of the season, I was grateful to speak with Wilfred "The Star Guy" Buck, from Opaskwayak Cree Nation and Siksika As...
Ancestral Science Podcast Season 2 Trailer
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Glacier Sovereignty and the Science of Hunting and Laughter
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
DARYL KOOTENAY is a Traditional singer, dancer, artist, speaker, youth leader, and film maker, from Stoney Nakoda Nation in Treaty 7 and member of Din...
Mathematics is Creation, Being, & Medicine
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mohawk Mathematician Dr. Edward Doolittle, Kanyen’kehake from Six Nations, taught us about mathematics as medicine, the difference between glob...
Crocus' & Pokey Plants with the Plant Guy
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TESSA WOLFLEG from Siksika Nation, taught us about how 'science is LIFE and Math RUNS THE WORLD,' Ancestral scientific knowledge is on "another level ...
Ethnomathematics solves Real World Problems
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. LINDA FURUTO is a mathematics educator professor & Director of the Ethnomathematics Graduate Certificate and M.Ed. Curriculum Studies, Mathem...
Land Rights Science & Human Responsibilities to the Earth
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
JADE GOULD (Butchulla & Woppabura scientist) taught us about how Science helps us better understand Landscape & Country, significance of Nativ...
Decolonizing Mother Earth, One Native Plant at a Time
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LATIFA PELLETIER-AHMED, botanist, herbalist, educator, artist, co-owner of ALCLA Native Plants & Nursery in Treaty 7, taught us about critical thi...
Moss Bags & Science of Matriarchs
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
JESSIE FIDDLER-KISS, a Métis mother, beader, entrepreneur, and educator, taught us about Science as relationships between Land and time, how children...
Space Justice & Cosmic Relationality
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With MIT scientists fron the Navajo Nation, ALVIN HARVEY described the differences between the two MIT's (yes, there are two!), what it means to b...
Planetary Health: through Berries, Land, and Water
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
DR. NICOLE REDVERS (Deninu Kųę́ First Nation) chatted to us about berries changing genetics, Indigenous Medicine Science as a reawakening, Land as ...
Strength of Indigenous Science
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We asked TORRES WEBB "what is science to you?" which lead to a conversation about fish traps & cosmic cycles, the harm terra nullius has...
Yarning Systems Science
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We chatted with Anishinaabekwe DR. MELANIE GOODCHILD and asked "what is science to you?" which lead to a conversation about how we talk to the univers...
Everywhere and Nowhere all at Once
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We chatted AGAIN with Siksika Astrophysicist ROB CARDINAL about "Everything is a Reflection," who invented math?, determinism/free-will and the univer...
Quantum "Everything is a Reflection"
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We chatted with Siksika Astrophysicist ROB CARDINAL about: holistic science, quantum woo woo, frequencies & spirit within quantum (and the emissio...
Indigenous Science & Education w Aunties Laughing
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MELISSA ROBERTS (Anishinaabe/Scottish Kwe), “What is science to you?” led to conversations about leaves and weather, Auntie support networks, the ...
Journeying by Spirit, Stars, & Stones
27 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support the podcast through buying come cool Ancestral Science merch which supports Elder honoraria, editing, and keeping the podcast going. This week...
Sky Rivers to Quantum Portals
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We asked HAL EAGLETAIL “what is science to you?” which sparked a conversation about Natural Laws, connections between Quantum, Spirit, and energ...