Indigenous Planetary Health Podcast
Episodes
EP 50: Kanaka ʻŌiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wākea with Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Indigenous Planetary Health podcast, hosts Hoku and Melia share an emotional conversation with Iokepa Casumbal‑Salazar about his ne...
EP 49: Restoring Jurisdiction, Restoring Well-Being: A Conversation with Brittany Brinkworth and Shona Nelson, leaders from Doig River First Nation
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, we explore what is termed the Modern Treaty Era in Canada through the powerful story of the Doig River First Nation, located...
EP 48: Mariana Islands Part Three: Protecting & Liberating the Archipelago, a conversation with Our Commonwealth 670 (OCW 670)
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2025, Tiara and Hoku spent nearly a week in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) on the islands of Saipan and Tinian...
EP47: The Mariana Islands Part Two: Listening to the land, a conversation with Franceska de Oro
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for part two of our special three-part series on the Mariana Islands. This week, Dr. Tiara Na’puti interviews Franceska De Oro, ...
EP 46: The Mariana Islands: A three-part series
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, we’re launching a special three-part series recorded in the Mariana Islands with Dr. Tiara Na’puti, a member of our A...
EP 45: What Side Are You On? A Tohono O’odham Life Across Borders, a conversation with authors Mike Wilson and Tony Lucero
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, Hoku is joined by guest co-host and podcast research assistant Melialani Hamilton, a new PhD student in IGOV. Together, ...
EP 44: Grief, Kinship, and Indigenous Futures with Jeffery Ansloos
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, Hoku speaks with Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos, Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and Social Policy at the University of Toron...
EP 43: Caring for Country: A Kamilaroi Father–Son Story of Climate Leadership with Brad and Kyle Moggridge
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Indigenous communities worldwide have long maintained deep, reciprocal relationships with their environments, sustaining ecosystems through traditio...
EP 42: ‘Āina Education: A framework and conversation about restoring relationships between people and place with Maya Saffery
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Land-based or place-based education is probably a well-known pedagogical framework for folks working in Indigenous education. For our guest this week,...
EP 41: The Audacity of Indigenous Art/ists: A Conversation with Zena Cumpston
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As academic institutions in the United States experience a dramatic defunding of research related to decolonization, in Canada and Australia, these ef...
EP 40: Co-creating transformative art from Turtle Island to Palestine with Smokii Sumac and Zaynab Mohammed
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This powerful episode explores art as a practice of resistance, healing, and connection across lands and lineages. Guest hosts Kathryn Stone and Brend...
EP 39 From Stories on the Trapline to Protocols in Playhouses: Indigenous Resurgence through the Performing Arts with Reneltta Arluk
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather sits down with Reneltta Arluk, a performing arts artist and Indigenous arts advocate and leader. We get to hear beautiful sto...
EP 38: Curation as Ceremonial Political Practice, a conversation with Léuli Eshrāghi
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Hōkū in this episode as she sits down with Léuli Eshrāghi, Curator of Indigenous Practices at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. For Léuli, t...
EP 37: Go! Go! Stop! Land-based Wellness with Sandra Martin Harris
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are back from our summer break! Before we get started, stop! Take a deep breath in … and … out. Pause. Where is the sun in the territory you’...
Replay: Slugs and frogs, the underdogs of planetary health with Sarah Jim
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Summer break continues, and art meets planetary health in a replayed episode with Sarah Jim. Through her paintings, Sarah reminds us of small but migh...
Replay: Supporting Indigenous health through governance and stewarding the land and waters with Dr. Shannon Waters
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing with our summer break, let’s revisit an old episode with Dr. Shannon Waters. As a physician frustrated with a health system focused on s...
Replay: Centering the Earth in Indigenous Planetary Health with Dr. Nicole Redvers
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Co-hosts Heather and Hōkū are taking a break this summer, so journey back with us to listen to the first ever guest on the Indigenous Planetary Heal...
EP 36: When the Pine Needles Fall, a discussion with Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather and Hoku speak with Katsi’tsakwas (Ellen Gabriel) about her recently published memoir, When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigen...
EP 35: Indigenous Philosophies and Staying Curious for Planetary Health with Dr. Shandin Pete
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Indigenous science and western science may not be so different after all. Dr. Shandin Pete joins Heather and Hōkū to talk about Indigenous philosoph...
EP 34: Remembering Haunani-Kay Trask with Noelani Goodyear- -Ka’ōpua
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you don’t know who Haunani-Kay Trask is, or what the Hawaiian sovereignty movement is about, this episode is for you! Hōkū sits down with longt...
EP 33: Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) with Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
n this episode, Heather is joined by one of her many mentors, esteemed Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall, who brought forward the concept of Etuaptmumk ...
EP 32: Reconcili-ACTION in language and plants with Dominique James
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Indigenous languages are action oriented to their core. Heather and Hōkū join SENĆOŦEN language specialist and land steward Dominique James for a ...
EP 31: Kairangahou: Weaving Māori Knowledge with Helen Moewaka-Barnes
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather and Melissa Quesnelle chat with leading Māori health researcher Dr. Helen Moewaka Barnes about her pathway to becoming a he...
Ep 30: “I was meant to do this!” A conversation with Simon Brascoupé
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather chats with longtime friend and colleague Simon Brascoupé. Simon has a lifetime of Indigenous advocacy to share with us, incl...
Ep 29: Getting dirty: A conversation with Dr. Melissa Nelson
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hōkū sits down with Dr. Melissa Nelson to discuss love, gender, and sustainable futures, all through the lens of ecology, or as she...
EP 28: IndigiQueer Cosmologies in Planetary Health with Lewis Williams and Jordan Ramnarine
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the proliferation of climate justice debates, equity considerations remain predominantly western, human centric, and exclusionary. Further, In...
EP 27: Listening to the Ancestors with Dr. Tommy Happynook
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Carey Newman joins Heather for this episode to chat with ḥapinyuuk (Tommy Happynook). Tommy is čačaac̓iiʕasʔatḥ from huuʕiiʔatḥ (Huu-ay...
EP 26:The Praxis of Indigenous Environmental Repossession: A conversation with Dr. Chantell Richmond and Dr. Renee Pualani Louis
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Governments and international governmental organizations’ responses to global environmental crises are failing; Indigenous environmental repossessio...
EP25: No More Sacrifice Zones: A Conversation with Indigenous Climate Activist Eriel Tchekwie Deranger
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather and Hōkū sit down with winner of the 2024 Climate Breakthrough Award, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, a a Dënesųłiné Indigenou...
EP24: Yup, we’re still Making Space for Indigenous Feminism: A conversation with Dr. Gina Starblanket
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, Indigenous feminists have documented how colonization and hetero-normative patriarchy have eroded, erased, and eclipsed Indigenous women,...
EP 23: Busting the ‘Illusion of inclusion’ myth at COP29 with Climate Leader Janna Wale
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode of season two, Heather and Hōkū are thrilled to be hosting Janna Wale, a young Indigenous leader working to heal the planet thr...
EP22: Indigenous economic prosperity is part and parcel of Indigenous planetary health with Dr. Susanne Theissen
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather Castleden and guest co-host Melissa Quesnelle sit down with Dr Susanne Theissen, who talks about how her life story animate...
EP21: Critical Indigenous fish philosophy and Indigenous Re-Sturgeon-ce with Dr. Zoe Todd
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather Castleden and guest host Carey Newman chat with Zoe Todd about Indigenous planetary health from the perspectives of fish. Zoe...
EP20: “Upholding Indigenous legal commitments to our Kin” with Dr. Heidi Stark
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather Castleden and guest host, Carey Newman, speak with Dr Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark. Dr Stark shares how she came into academ...
EP19: Inheriting the Sacred Responsibilities to Mother Earth w/Melina Laboucan-Massimo
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather Castleden and Melissa Quesnelle talk with Melina Laboucan-Massimo about activism, Indigenous resurgence, and land defense, ...
EP 18: The calm and beauty of co-creating Indigenous operatic planetary health with Marion Newman
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather Castleden and Carey Newman speak with critically acclaimed and award-winning mezzo-soprano Marion Newman (Carey’s sister!) ...
EP17: Protecting the Intimacies of Everyday Indigenous Life with Dr. Jeff Corntassel
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather Castleden is joined in the podcast studio with guest co-host, Carey Newman, and together they speak with Dr Jeff Ganohalidoh ...
EP16: Nature-based solutions are “the side salad” for Indigenous Planetary Health with Dr Graeme Reed
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather Castleden is joined by cohost Deondre Smiles and they speak with Graeme Reed about planetary health, nature-based solutions, ...
EP 15: Engaging in Planetary Health is a process of healing People w/ Dr. Kelsey Leonard
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Co-hosts, Heather Castleden and Hōkūlani Aikau, sit down with water scientist, legal scholar, policy expert, and writer, Dr. Kelsey Leonard, to talk...
EP14: Generosity and the Intergenerational Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge with Dr. Dawn Smith
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather and co-host Melissa Quesnelle, sit down with Dr. Dawn Smith to talk about how Indigenous Knowledge is transmitted from one ge...
EP13: Supporting Indigenous health through governance and stewarding the land and waters with Dr. Shannon Waters
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather and Carey Newman sit down with Dr. Shannon Waters to talk about how stewarding Indigenous lands and waters in a good way is e...
EP12: Kīpuka Aloha ‘Āina: A model for ‘Ōiwi planetary health with Dr. Mary Tuti Baker
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mary Tuti Baker is Kanaka Maoli and an assistant professor of Indigenous Politics and Futures at Western Washington University. Dr. Baker was born...
EP11: Mātauranga Māori: Māori Knowledge, Culture, Values, and World View for planetary health with Dan Hikuroa
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Dan Hikuroa (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato-Tainui, Ngaati Whanaunga, Pākehā) is Senior Lecturer in Te Wānanga o Waipapa at Waipapa Taumata Rau/Unive...
EP10: Supporting Inuit artists through ethical art and curation for planetary health with Heather Igloliorte
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Heather lgloliorte (Inuk-Newfoundlander, Nunatsiavut) is an internationally renowned curator and art historian whose work centres circumpolar Inui...
EP9: Huakaʻi of transformation for planetary health: From Homeland to Diaspora with Hōkūlani Aikau
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hōkūlani Aikau explains how doing ethnographic research in the academy provided her with opportunities to learn from and about her ...
EP8: The problems and perils of US Militarism for Planetary Health with Tiara Na’puti
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Heather and Hoku sit down with Chamorro scholar, Tiara Na’puti, to discuss Indigenous planetary health from the perspective of Guåhan and the Maria...
EP7: Resurgence is Resistance with Deondre Smiles
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In both Canada and the United States, the idea of state, provincial, territorial and national parks are widely celebrated for preserving wilderness fo...
EP6: Indigenous women’s leadership for planetary health with Diana Lewis
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Diana Lewis who is Mi’kmaq from the Sipekne’katik First Nation holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Health Governance a...
EP5: Slugs and frogs, the underdogs of planetary health with Sarah Jim
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the key values of our collective is prioritizing the importance of art to an Indigenous worldview. In this episode, Hoku and Heather sit down w...
EP4: (Re)building Indigenous Governance with Breanne Lavallee-Heckert
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather and, guest host, Carey Newman have a conversation with Métis activist Breanne Lavallee-Heckert. When we spoke with Breanne, ...
EP3: Carving Totems for Indigenous Planetary Futures with Carey Newman
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Heather and special co-host, Jeff Corntassel, a professor in Indigenous Studies and a member of our collective at the University of V...
EP2: Centering the Earth in Indigenous Planetary Health with Nicole Redvers
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Planetary health has emerged as a new ‘science’ in academic circles. It is touted as the a framework that reimagines a path forward through the cu...
EP1: Welcome to the Indigenous Planetary Health Podcast
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Indigenous Planetary Health Podcast features artists, activists, and academics working to heal our planet through Indigenous-led resurgence. In th...