Broken Lands: A Podcast About Reparations and Honoring Our Treaties

When a community, tribe, or nation is bouncing back to reclaim their sovereignty as First Nations, there is no doubt what will be at the center of that come back. When the social structure of an entire country predicts that, "the Indian" will be removed from the land for progress to develop, but the land says, "we are still here," there is always a sacred drum still beating, too. When you listen a...

From as far back as we can remember, Native Americans have always been scientists and inventors. In many ways they have always been innovators and entrepreneurs, too. So, why not encourage young Native Americans to take this back by reclaiming their heritage within the ranks of tech business start-up culture? Boozhoo (hello)! Danielle Boyer is an Indigenous (Anishinaabe – Enrolled Sault Tribe) you...

Walpole Island is between Detroit, MI and London, ON in Lake St. Claire and home to one of the most effective indigenous language immersion experiences in the world. Monty McGahey II attended this highly esteemed program, Maatookiidaa Anishinaabewin Adult Immersion of Bkejwanong, in 2015 and has continued to immerse himself and recover one of his First Nations languages by growing in fluency one d...

Walpole Island is between Detroit, MI and London, ON in Lake St. Claire and home to one of the most effective indigenous  language immersion experiences in the world. Monty McGahey II attended this highly esteemed program, Maatookiidaa Anishinaabewin Adult Immersion of Bkejwanong, in 2015 and has continued to immerse himself and recover one of his First Nations languages by growing in fluency one...

When we pause to ponder how we are all playing a part in history right now, isn't there always a vantage point to listen from and a vanishing point to see through time in space? Well, Indigenous History Now founders are with us to share their first take on a shared vanishing point from behind the camera vantage point. Leilani Kaholo is a native Hawaiian composer with a Master of Music in Film...

Our featured indigenous voice for all of June 2026 is ... Prairie Rose Seminole. As co-tenant of her animal shelter/sanctuary in western North Dakota, Prairie Rose lives an exemplary life as a teacher, healer, warrior, and singer. Her current life work is at the intersection of "biker culture" and indigenous women riders. Focused on directing a documentary film, that follows several Nati...

Our featured indigenous voice for all of June 2026 is ... Prairie Rose Seminole. As co-tenant of her animal shelter/sanctuary in western North Dakota, Prairie Rose lives an exemplary life as a teacher, healer, warrior, and singer. Her current life work is at the intersection of "biker culture" and indigenous women riders. Focused on directing a documentary film, that follows several Nati...

Our featured indigenous voice for all of June 2026 is ... Prairie Rose Seminole. As co-tenant of her animal shelter/sanctuary in western North Dakota, Prairie Rose lives an exemplary life as a teacher, healer, warrior, and singer. Her current life work is at the intersection of "biker culture" and indigenous women riders. Focused on directing a documentary film, that follows several Nati...

When the Oglala Lakota Episcopal Church was formed in 2008, as a response to the dishonoring of past relations, many of the Tatanka Numpa Tiospaye took a stand that their ancestors took several generations ago. Rev. Twilla "TR" Two Bulls is based in Red Shirt Table, where she serves in ministry at both Christ Church Red Shirt Table and St. John's Episcopal Church. A dedicated advocate for her comm...

A Tamil Sage from the First Century still speaks, "Without Love in the heart, life is like a sapless tree in a barren wilderness."  What is real for you as an attentive listener to this podcast? If this question is something that you can feel resonating in your heart, then we wholeheartedly invite you to listen to this episode with our new curriculum developer and community administrator...

Balancing an American Indigenous identity with a Christian faith calling from within a "liminal space" between these worlds can be a place of learning and discernment.  Vance Blackfox cannot help but be Native, but he chooses to be Christian every day, and this liminal space helps him navigate how to be safe and effective in non-Indigenous environments.  When asked about changes in triba...

Balancing an American Indigenous identity with a Christian faith calling from within a "liminal space" between these worlds can be a place of learning and discernment.  Vance Blackfox cannot help but be Native, but he chooses to be Christian every day, and this liminal space helps him navigate how to be safe and effective in non-Indigenous environments.  When asked about changes in triba...

When we take rest and breathe easy, there is nothing to do but stay present to what is most sacred. Might there be an Advent of the Sacred as we learn to walk together here as relatives? Settlers doing their work of decolonizating extractive systems, while Indigenous Peoples do their work of returning us all to a sense of place by indiginazation. We are joined by Sarah Augustine, the co-founder an...

T.S Elliott upon completion of The Four Quartets asked for more humility in the pursuit of happiness by predicting where we are going if we do not acknowledge where we are coming from: "Where is the wisdom lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge lost in information?" Dr. Marty expresses a similar spirit of humility when he says, "Those who tell, don't know and those who know,...

T.S Elliott upon completion of The Four Quartets asked for more humility in the pursuit of happiness by predicting where we are going if we do not acknowledge where we are coming from: "Where is the wisdom lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge lost in information?" Dr. Marty expresses a similar spirit of humility when he says, "Those who tell, don't know and those who know,...

Our first guest is a dual citizen of Canada and the US, also of indigenous (Metis) and northern European descent. He was born and raised in east Duluth. He is a husband and father of three adult children. The Most Rt. Rev'd Mark MacDonald is the retired National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Canada. Mark recently heard an elder and social worker from Fond du Lac Band...

A reflection on season 3 and appeal to our licensers before season 4. Thank you for listening to season 3! Miigwech!

If you are a descendant of Scandinavian or Russian heritage, kindly consider this episode a must share with all your relatives. Because, above the Arctic Rim along the tree line, in what many conceive on maps as Scandinavia and northwestern Russia, lives a people who are still coexisting with reindeer herds.  The Sami follow where the herd leads, not recognizing the partitions of nations and claim...

If you are a descendant of Scandinavian or Russian heritage, kindly consider this episode a must share with all your relatives. Because, above the Arctic Rim along the tree line, in what many conceive on maps as Scandinavia and northwestern Russia, lives a people who are still coexisting with reindeer herds.  The Sami follow where the herd leads, not recognizing the partitions of nations and claim...

Meredith Migizi is founder and executive director of Miigwech, Inc., a nonprofit organization driven by a single goal: to promote and practice  Mino-Bimaadiziwin  (The Good Life) by making our community a better place for all.  Miigwech, Inc. is continuously providing services, sharing teachings, advocating for sustenance policies, and building more understanding of  Mino-Bimaadiziwin. Miigwechinc...

Chase Iron Eyes returns home and shares his sharp intellect during a season of harvest and prayerperation for what comes next. Chase is a Native American activist, attorney, and citizen-member of the Lakota nation. Chase is the Executive Director of the Lakota People’s Law Project (Sacred Defense Fund) and publisher of the Native American news website Last Real Indians. Chase has appeared as a gue...

When we are found by the faith of "all our relatives" (Lakota - Mitakuye Oyasin), then we are found to be recipients of the greatest gift ever given by our Creator, and that is the land on which we are still standing and walking. Father Robert Two Bulls, Oglala Lakota Episcopal Priest, is the youngest of 5 children from a large family (Lakota - tiospaye) of artists who call Pine Ridge IR and He Sa...

Come along, as Tom and Juno Biron help us imagine what pedagogical paradigm might be emerging on Broken Lands Trust. ) When combining traditional teachings of oral cultures with modern educational systems, we find that more needs are met by involving elders in the learning process. ) Where fathers reclaim and own their fathering, paternity leaves boys in a warm embrace rather than a cold shoul...

Come along, as Tom and Juno Biron help us imagine what pedagogical paradigm might be emerging on Broken Lands Trust. ) When combining traditional teachings of oral cultures with modern educational systems, we find that more needs are met by involving elders in the learning process. ) Where fathers reclaim and own their fathering, paternity leaves boys in a warm embrace rather than a cold shoul...

Dr. Abadian conducted research on several First Nations over 3 decades ago in order to offer an economists expertise. What transpired during her long visits effectively changed her world view so much, that she reenvisioned her world view to incorporate an elemental reciprocity. Come along again and listen to how one religious refugee from a small village in Iran, where she is from a long line of i...