New Series Alert! Been wondering what we've been cooking up during those long periods of silence? The Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat and On The Land in collaboration with the Permanent Participant Youth Network and the Permanent Participants, brings you a new podcast series. Our Arctic Presence features the story of how the Arctic Council Permanent Participant organizations came to be and coordinate across international Arctic borders. If you are from the Arctic and wonder how Indigenous...

Waqaa! And welcome to an On The Land Mini Series featuring Indigenous Youth Voices! Lemau Bantatua is from Norvik, and created a podcast about Iñupiaq fur sewing based upon an interview with her Ana (Grandma). In spring of 2021, we teamed up with the Alaska Humanities Forum, See Stories, and Bitanga Productions to host a month-long podcasting workshop with a small group of middle and high school students across western Alaskan villages. Students had the opportunity to create their own...

Waqaa! And welcome to an On The Land Mini Series featuring Indigenous Youth Voices! Jessica Chingliak is from Goodnews Bay, and created a podcast about teaching in Goodnews Bay based upon an interview with her English / Language Arts Teacher. In spring of 2021, we teamed up with the Alaska Humanities Forum, See Stories, and Bitanga Productions to host a month-long podcasting workshop with a small group of middle and high school students across western Alaskan villages. Students had the...

Waqaa! And welcome to an On The Land Mini Series featuring Indigenous Youth Voices! Today we feature Alfred Barr's episode. Alfred is from Deering, and celebrates his Mom's home cooking and catering business in his podcast. In spring of 2021, we teamed up with the Alaska Humanities Forum, See Stories, and Bitanga Productions to host a month-long podcasting workshop with a small group of middle and high school students across western Alaskan villages. Students had the opportunity to...

Waqaa! And welcome to an On The Land Mini Series featuring Indigenous Youth Voices! In spring of 2021, we teamed up with the Alaska Humanities Forum, See Stories, and Bitanga Productions to host a month-long podcasting workshop with a small group of middle and high school students across western Alaskan villages. Students had the opportunity to create their own 5-15 minute episode featuring interviews with their family, friends, and their teachers. First up is Rozlynn Dock from Akiak!...

It is that time here in Alaska. People along the road system, river beds, tundra, mountains and cities are preparing and heading out for the fall big game hunt. Excitement stirs in the air as whisperings of moose and caribou float on the wind. Hopes for filled freezers weigh heavy on the mind. In this episode community leader, scholar, and activist Eva Dawn Burk and I discuss the right to hunt for moose, being asked to show up as a leader for ones community, and the politics of the Alaska...

Welcome back to the second part of our conversation with Àslat Holmberg and Beaska Niillas of SuperSàpmi. In this half we discuss the importance of fish to our communities, tackle some of the conversation around green colonialism and yes, touch on reconciliation. This conversation was recorded in the spring of 2020 pre-COVID in Sápmi on the banks of the Deatnu River and on Pueblo Lands in Dixson, New Mexico. The Storytellers “In Sápmi there are not many platforms where we can dive real...

In this episode, Deenaalee visits with Áslat Holmberg and Beaska Niillas of SuperSápmi Podcast. During this first part they discuss fishing rights and the impacts of climate change on northern fisheries in the Arctic. This conversation was recorded in the spring of 2020 pre-COVID in Sápmi on the banks of the Deatnu River and on Pueblo Lands in Dixson, New Mexico. The Storytellers “In Sápmi there are not many platforms where we can dive real deep in to our own issues and discussions. So...

Ade’ and welcome to the first episode of Xilegg: Our Arctic Presence. In this episode, originally recorded in late October of 2019, we visit with Unangax̂ scholar, activist, and performance artist Haliehana Stepetin. During our conversation we touch on the mapping of Indigenous spacialities that help us imagine and construct our understanding of the world as contemporary Indigenous peoples rooted in the constellations of our ancestors. Haliehana also speaks to her relationship with Iqyax...

Here’s my hot take on voting. Check out these resources for more information, thoughts, and history on voting. These podcast episodes give a nuanced understanding of many of the feels that come up when talking about voting on Stolen Land. Find our voting resource toolkit our website onthelandmedia.com and check out Native Peoples Action for more information on voting in Alaska. All My Relations Podcast "Vote(If You Want To & Can)" Sko Vote Den Series NDN Collective Code Switch,...

Ade’ Relatives – Ndadz Ding’ita? I have a question for you. Where are you finding your medicine? In this final episode from Alaska’s First Just Transition Summit we visit with Naomi Michalsen. Naomi Michalsen, Kaasei and Daaw Da Oo (Tlingit names), is Wooshkeetaan, Eagle/Wolf of the Shark House of Berners Bay, Alaska. Naomi and her husband live in Ketchikan and have 5 adult children, and 9 grandchildren. Naomi is the owner of Kaasei Training & Consulting, a business she started in...

Xilegg - Spring. As the flowers come out to breathe and as the birds begin to sing their songs again humans also feel a shift. The snow begins to melt and the break up of ice is just around the corner – it’s an ominous feeling of knew of fresh. This spring is very different than the last, not only for humans in the time of COVID–19, but too for our more-than-human relatives. Our plancestors have been adapting to the changes of this world in their own crises with climate change and other...


How do we reset and ground our movements so that they are centered on the truth? In what ways are we growing an expansive just transitions that tackle hard issues? In this second part of our three-part bundle, I am so excited to bring you my conversation with 
La quen náay Elizabeth Medicine Crow. 

La quen náay Elizabeth Medicine Crow is Haida Eagle Tiits Gitee Nei, Hummingbird and Tlingit Raven Kaach Adi, Fresh Water Marked Sockeye Salmon. 
La quen náay is the President and CEO of First...

Welcome to Decol’ Dispatches Late night on Sunday March 22, 2020 I received a call from my cousin, Scotty Savo. For the past week I have been thinking about the what the outbreak of Coronavirus means for the 2020 sockeye salmon season in Bristol Bay, and here was my relative calling me with similar concerns. In this first Decol’ Dispatch you will hear my conversation with Bristol Bay Native and Set Netter Scotty Savo as we discuss how COVID19 will impact our home community of South Naknek...

In the time of Coronavirus, we return to Kotre’lenayh: Alaska’s first Just Transition Summit to bring you a bundle of stories from Winona LaDuke, Lagunai Elizabeth Medicine Crow, and Naomi Michalsen. This first episode in our three-part bundle is a conversation we had with Winona LaDuke. Winona LaDuke is Anishinaabekwe from the White Earth Nation in what is known as Minnesota. She is the executive director and co-founder of Honor the Earth alongside the Indigo Girls. Honor the Earth is an...

XILEGG IS HERE 
And we are opening up this season by imagining and putting into action a new future for tour future generations. 

Welcome to Kohtr’elneyh: Remembering Forward, Alaska’s first just transition podcast. On this this episode you will be hearing from the voices of people that attended, spoke, and organized Alaska’s first just transition summit held January 8-10th on Lower Tanana Dene Lands. Use the link below to find our toolkit for resources referenced in this episode...

⁠March is here and in the Arctic we know what that means - the return of the Midnight Sun and welcoming the first season of On The Land: Xilegg - Our Arctic Presence. ⁠⠀⁠ ⁠⠀⁠ Our Arctic Presence brings you the Voices of the Arctic. In this season we visit with People from throughout the Circumpolar North, tackling difficult discussions surrounding the health and well-being of caribou, reindeer, and fish and other animal relations, the impact of thawing ice and permafrost in our communities,...

Welcome to On The Land: Stories from the People, Stories from the Land. On this podcast, we bring you the voices of Indigenous People in this time of political and climate insecurity. We tackle difficult discussions on who has access to land, water, and air and offers a contemporary understanding of what it means to be Indigenous and live in relation to what is often known as the “outdoors” or “the wild. This episode’s music was created by henry schaefer aka dicegame uchiha who’s music can...