This Indigenous Life

16/02/2023

Congratulations Kali!

Jodie Foster and Kali Reis team up in a new teaser from Season 4 of HBO's crime thriller series True Detective: Night Country.

06/05/2022

On this episode of Not Invisible: Native Peoples on the Frontlines we share our recent conversation with Nēhiyaw/Metis/Mixed Two-Spirit activist, Prestin Thōtin-awāsis.

We discuss his activism and advocacy work, the importance of mental health support in Indigenous communities, and the importance of the T2S in MMIWGT2S and how communities and individuals can support survivors and families.

Listen now, link in bio or wherever you get your podcasts.

04/05/2022

This episode of Not Invisible: Native Peoples on the Frontlines features a conversation with artist and activist, Sarah Sense. LeAndra and Sarah discuss Sarah's international project, Weaving the Americas a Search for Native Art in the Western Hemisphere, her journey as an artist from childhood through motherhood, and her latest work on decolonizing maps.

Learn more about Sarah and check out her work at sarasense.com

Visit our webpage for a transcript of this episode.

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03/05/2022

On our next episode of the , we speak with 2-spirit activist & poet, Prestin Thotin-Awasis (). We discuss the importance of recognizing and including trans & 2-spirit relatives in + activism & policy-making.

29/04/2022

On our latest episode of Not Invisible: Native Peoples on the Frontlines we chat with Anishinaabe Content Creator/ Speaker/ Educator Zhaawnong Webb. He describes his journey towards becoming a TikTok influencer and how he uses his platform to educate others on issues affecting Canada's Indigenous people, what it means to be Anishinaabe, and how to inspire Indigenous youth to tell their own stories.

Listen now and be sure tag anyone who you think will want to hear Zhaawnong's incredible story! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not-invisible-native-peoples-on-the-frontlines/id1511755585

29/04/2022

On our latest episode of Not Invisible: Native Peoples on the Frontlines we chat with Anishinaabe Content Creator/ Speaker/ Educator Zhaawnong Webb. He describes his journey towards becoming a TikTok influencer and how he uses his platform to educate others on issues affecting Canada's Indigenous people, what it means to be Anishinaabe, and how to inspire Indigenous youth to tell their own stories.

Listen now and be sure tag anyone who you think will want to hear Zhaawnong's incredible story! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not-invisible-native-peoples-on-the-frontlines/id1511755585

‎Society & Culture · 2022

25/04/2022

On this episode of Not Invisible: Native Peoples on the Frontlines, Host LeAndra Nephin chats with actor, Marcus LaVoi. They discuss his role as Big Frank Yazzie on the Netflix show 'Chambers', his latest role as Nathan Goodleaf, in the ABC show 'For Life, his journey as an actor and the need for more Native representation both on and off screen. https://www.buzzsprout.com/915904/9369957-episode-8-marcus-lavoi

On this episode of Not Invisible: Native Peoples on the Frontlines, Host LeAndra Nephin chats with actor, Marcus LaVoi. They discuss his role as Big Frank Yazzie on the Netflix show 'Chambers', his latest role as Nathan Goodleaf, in the ABC show '...

23/04/2022

On this episode, Host LeAndra Nephin speaks with Educator and Activist, Renee Sans Souci. The discuss water protection, activism and her own journey towards healing.

With a degree in education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and being an Umonhon woman and practitioner of traditional healing, Renee Sans Souci combines her life experiences with a learning process that helps learners to engage in their own cultural identities and languages. Renee has been a Teaching Artist with the Lied Center for Performing Arts since 2009. She has presented at numerous conferences and workshops on various topics related to , Native Science, History of Indian Education, Native languages, Poetry, and Sustainability. Sans Souci was featured, last year, in the PBS American Masters Series, UNLADYLIKE 2020: Susan LaFlesche Picotte: The First American Indian Doctor. She was also a finalist for a 2020 Inspire Award, Celebrating Women Leaders in Lincoln, Nebraska.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/915904/9271356-episode-7-renee-sans-souci

22/04/2022

This episode of Not Invisible: Native Peoples on the Frontlines features a conversation with Cree/Iroquois/French journalist from Treaty 6 territory in Alberta, Brandi Morin.

Brandi and Host, LeAndra Nephin discuss Brandi's career in journalism, her coverage of the ongoing crisis on Wet'suwet'en territory, her book "Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising", and her own harrowing experience of being sexually trafficked as a teenager.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/915904/10485898-episode-15-brandi-morin

18/02/2022

'Major Victory for Indigenous Peoples' as Ecuadorian Court Rejects Drilling in Protected Area https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/02/major-victory-indigenous-peoples-ecuadorian-court-rejects-drilling-protected-area via

"It is also a reminder for oil companies and investors that expanding oil extraction in Ecuador's Amazon is a risk and full of potential legal liabilities," said Amazon Watch's climate and energy director.

04/02/2022

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BREAKING NEWS! MASSIVE VICTORY!

Just moments ago Ecuador’s Supreme Court ruled IN FAVOR of Indigenous peoples’ right to decide the future of their lands in the Amazon.

This is HISTORIC. The ruling provides one of the world’s most powerful precedents on the internationally recognized right of Indigenous peoples to have the final say on oil, mining, or other extractive projects that affect their lands - otherwise known as the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent (FPIC) - providing new strength to a powerful tool for Indigenous-led global climate action.

The landmark ruling signals that the nation’s highest court backs the right of Indigenous peoples to be able to protect 23 MILLION acres of their rainforest territories AND gives them a powerful tool to fight Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso’s catastrophic plans to intensify oil and mining across the Amazon.

Sinangoe’s years-long battle against gold mining is an example of the type of frontlines Indigenous-led climate action needed in order to stave off a global climate crisis.

Thanks to those on the frontlines and to each and everyone of you who joined us in taking action for Sinangoe. Today marks an important milestone in the fight for Indigenous autonomy and against climate change, where Indigenous peoples get to decide the future of the Amazon.

Support frontline Indigenous communities 👉 LINK IN BIO.

18/01/2022

"Everyone, every animal, every person, every plant and every element has a place in this great creation and we can work together with these things in creation, so that everything can be sustained." -John Scott Richardson

Checkout John's full episode of This Indigenous Life on YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbS42Huyj5g

17/01/2022

Thank you to all sharing this reminder!
Today folks will reduce Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. into a whitewashed Black saint caricature & take his words out of context to demonize modern racial justice movements like BLM.
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But what they fail to recognize is that MLK was way more radical than we are led to believe. In the year before his assassination, he was despised for condemning the Vietnam War & forging alliances with labor rights groups.
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He was uncompromisingly anti-imperialist & anti-capitalist. This is the that was assassinated. Over 50 years later & we are still fighting for your dream King. ✊🏾 (tweet: )

12/01/2022

Indigenous literature: Time of reckoning for Native American woman https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/culture/books/time-of-reckoning-for-a-native-american-woman-20220103-p59lix.html

Louise Erdrich’s latest novel moves deftly from the personal to the political.

11/01/2022

Native American People Tell Stories of Climate Loss and Resilience https://www.kqed.org/science/1977456/native-american-people-tell-stories-of-climate-loss-and-resilience via

Indigenous peoples across the U.S. are deciding whether to leave ancestral territories or hold onto their homelands as climate change brings floods, drought and erosion.

10/01/2022

John Scott Richardson Actor, Director and Storyteller of the Haliwa-Saponi Tribe shares a creation story about the first fire.

John is an enrolled member of the Haliwa-Saponi Nation of North Carolina. He began his career in the theatrical arts by writing/directing youth advocacy plays has worked as cultural educator for the NC Commission of Indian Affairs and was a board members of the American Indian Community House and helping to found Images for Inclusion, a non-profit doing work in South American countries.

He has appeared on screen in the The Heart Stays and The Politician (Netflix) and several additional feature films, TV shows and theater productions. Visit the YouTube Channel for This Indigenous Life and watch the full video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbS42Huyj5g

09/01/2022

There’s finally crime, science-fiction, and horror writing—something that pushes what we think of when we think of Indigenous fiction, to something bigger, more slippery, and less stereotypically confining. https://lithub.com/on-the-21st-century-renaissance-of-native-american-fiction/

To say that there is a Renaissance in Native American fiction is an understatement. What’s going on right now, as I’ve written about before, is nothing short of an explosion. And what’s new, is tha…

22/11/2021

“It's a new chapter and I'm looking forward to what that means for my people, for what stories I can tell.”
- Laundl Germaine Keepseagle, executive director of a Native & Black led non-profit advocating for sustainable change. Click the link in our bio to see Laundi’s full episode on

22/11/2021

Breaking into the collective conscious and a theater near you.

Fresh af Indigenous GIF’s from our relatives at

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Presenting: The Nsrgnts GIPHY’s! We’re in the GYPHY game, look us up and share! 🙏🏾
S/O to our comrades for the love and amplification

22/11/2021

The stories of our Indigenous relatives are only beginning. We are grateful everyday for the voices who have helped create the bridge between our past and our future.

is a powerful example of the importance these voices carry and should be on everyone’s list of authors to amplify this season.

22/11/2021

Looking forward to the Indigenous stories coming from all the rising Indigenous Artists selected by NDN Collective] and the project. Here are the winners!

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💫 Announcing NDN Collective’s 2021 Radical Imagination Artists 💫

Today, we are pleased to announce the NEW cohort of Radical Imagination Artist Grantees of 2021! 

As part of our mission at NDN Collective to Defend, Develop, and Decolonize, the vision of the Radical Imagination Artist Grant is an opportunity for Indigenous artists, creatives, and visionaries to Imagine a future our people strive toward. 

We are honored to welcome 10 Indigenous artists who imagine, design, and create projects of various mediums that propose viable solutions to our most intractable societal problems.

Meet the NEW Radical Imagination Cohort! 

🌟 Nora Naranjo-Morse (Kha’p’o Tewa)
🌟 Will Wilson (Diné)
🌟 Jackie Fawn (Yurok, Washoe, Surigaonon)
🌟 Peter Williams (Yup’ik)
🌟 Dimi Macheras (Athna Athabascan)
🌟 Marca Cassity (Osage) they/them
🌟 Amadeo Cool May (Maya)
🌟 Dakota Camacho (Matao/Chamoru)
🌟 Nivialis Toro-Lopez (Taíno)
🌟 Frank Waln (Sicangu Lakota)

Visit the link in our bio for the Full Announcement!

22/11/2021

Celebrating Indigenous authors who elevate and share a path back to our Indigenous wisdom. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer balances the science of botany with the information that has been passed down to us reminding readers to deepen their relationship with the land.

15/11/2021

On this segment of This Indigenous Life, storyteller, producer, environmental protector and Indigenous Scientist of the year, Laundi Germaine Keepseagle () of the Standing Rock Reservation describes her work with Native & Black led non-profit Save Money Save Life in Chicago, healing through humor and her desire to showcase the joy of being Native through media.

Learn about Laundi’s work at https://www.savemoneysavelife.org/