Today, we hear how Shelley Means (Ojibwe/Lakota) incorporates her values into the structure and implementation of her work, important work that strives to improve infant health outcomes based in Native wisdom. We are so grateful to Shelley for sharing her powerful stories.

Cooking is a time to share wisdom. Eileen Briggs (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe) has a fun cooking show on her social media channel for her relatives, friends and followers. Though it’s a lot more than a cooking show. There’s humor, culture, lessons, and connection.

Your hosts reflect on wisdom shared, and Leah prepares for her solo hike on the Superior Hiking Trail.

How do Indigenous practices with fire impact the landscape? We speak with Rob Gotchie, Forestry and Fire Restoration Coordinator at Leech Lake Wildland Fire and Aviation Management, about our relationship with fire, fire as a spirit, and controlled burns. Love to see Indigenous knowledge spread to our larger citizenry!

How can Native values inform economic development? Today, we are talking about building the tribal economy! Dustin Goslin (Pam-Mbwit-M’ko) is a proud member of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation and is the Vice President of Business & Economic Development at the Mille Lacs Band Corporate Ventures.

Today, we are talking about Indigenous ways of eating and entrepreneurship! How do our values inform food, work ethic, and investment? Kim Tilsen-Brave Heart is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation of the Pine Ridge Indian Reserve in South Dakota. She is an entrepreneur, a chef, and she embraces both her Indigenous and Jewish heritage.

Leah recently attended the MIT Indigenous Earth Day Summit, at her alma mater. She shares a few takeaways, connects them to what we’ve been hearing, and relates a bit of her own healing journey.

What happens when we as citizens of this land can explore Dakota perspectives? Perspectives that can build our relationship to the land, environment, and to one another? Today, we’ll be talking about the Mni Sota Makoce: the Dakota Homelands Curriculum.

Our guest is David Shane Lowry, PhD, member of the Lumbee Tribe and the Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT. We talk about academia and its debt to Native people and we explore how universities can do better and take responsibility.

Cole Premo talks with us about how he’s learned from covering Indian Country through reporting, conversation, and relationship-building and applies it to his work in mainstream media.

We’re back with a hosts-only episode where we discuss turning knowledge to wisdom. Join us as we take time to digest what we’re hearing and learning. At times with clarity, sometimes with a stumble. It’s a process!

We chat about journalism as a system and how Native voices can change it for the better. What’s a better possible environment to create?

How does storytelling maintain, restore, and empower who we are? We chat with Terri Peterson about storytelling and how it weaves into our own understanding, wisdom, and belonging.

What does it mean to liberate wealth? Today we talk with Gaby Strong about generosity, operating from abundance, and defining wealth as Indigenous people.

How do we recognize wisdom? Hosts Leah and Daniel take a deep look at how community wisdom has influenced their professional lives. They also start to integrate what they’ve learned from the voices they’ve heard from so far on the podcast.

How is healing related to the connection of the physical body and spiritual body? And what is the Wisdom of Trauma? Join us in conversation with Susan Beaulieu, citizen of the Red Lake Nation, as we chat about healing.

Today we explore an Anishinaabe cultural approach to law and tribal law. Join us as we chat with Syngen Kanassatega, the Legal and Policy Counsel for the Mille Lacs Band’s Office of the Chief Executive.

How does Native wisdom strengthen our health? Join us to hear more about Dakota Values in Public Health with Wyatt Pickner

We continue our lively chat with Shirley Nordrum. Where can we find the shine?

Shirley Nordrum is from the Red Lake Nation. We introduce Shirley and her love for our animal relatives and much more.

Introducing Wisdom Continuum! Meet Daniel (Lower Sioux Dakota Oyate) and Leah Lemm (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) and hear what’s coming up in their conversational adventures, bringing you conversations from awesome Native folks to celebrate Native wisdom for a healthier, thoughtful, more just future.

Hyped, Humorous, and Hopeful.