Ancestral Science

Join the Ancestral Science Pod Team as we chat about the previous episode. We had some technical difficulties this week, so we decided to re-release a previous episode about a similar topic connected to Drew Hayden Taylor. But, "Smoketalk" going to be even cooler after the next episode drop on October 13 with Alycia Two Bears, sorry, THE Alycia Two Bears! Check out our webpage, which is being upda...

We were grateful to speak with contemporary storyteller  Drew Hayden Taylor , Ojibwe from Curve Lake First Nation about learning to write through osmosis, dimensional hopping & portaging, how Indigenous stories make great Science Fiction, 1492 and Alien contact, anthropomorphizing animals and plants through relationality, humour as WD40, and science fiction as a metaphor for many of life’...

The Pod Team decided to begin Season 3 by reconnecting over  Smoketalk  where we chat about what we have learned over the summer, our goals for season 3...from new segments to opening up more conversations with community and the pod listeners.    Remember, you can support the pod and rock some unique Indigenous Science merch at  www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop , all p...

The Ancestral Science pod crew, Emil Starlight , Alex Flett, and Kori Chewbacca (haha), chatted about INDIGENOUS SCIENCE FICTION while recording LIVE on location, beyond Earth...I mean... at the Calgary Comic Convention about how Science Fiction has been inspired by Indigenous Teachings, was Barf from Space Balls inspired by a rez dog? Thinking about how animals, trees, and the wind are Ancestors...

The Ancestral Science Podcast was grateful to speak with  TCHADAS LEO , from Xwemalhkwu and Stillaguamish Nations, a journalist and tv and podcast host (check out his pod " Our Native Land "). We chatted about his passion for being an Indigenous journalist and how he balances time constraints with protocols, his dream story to cover, the courage needed to "tell the truth," and artifact/ancest...

Within this "active" Spring season of re-birth and re-growth, the Ancestral Science Podcast is taking a brief break to refresh and heal ourselves...so in deciding what episode to re-launch we were guided by the recent first thunder (amidst a thunderSNOW storm) that prompted the pop of the cottonwood buds, emerging crocus, and increased desires to reconnect with Native plants and our gardens, we th...

The Ancestral Science Podcast was grateful to speak with  PHILIP STEVENS , San Carlos Apache, Director of American Indian Studies at the University of Idaho, about (global/Western) mathematics being like pornography or taxidermy, non-Euclidian tessellations in mesquite wood stacking, patterns of the Land, Apache ontologies, academic camouflage, and focusing on how to take care of our own gard...

The Ancestral Science Podcast wanted to support our friend JUNO AWARD NOMINEE Walter McDonald White Bear .... so... we decided to gather some friends, a few guitars, and some pizza. Along with some impromptu riffs and freestyle we got to chat about embodying music, spirit as an additional voice/instrument, connections between goosebumps and music, frequencies, songs, &...

We were honoured to be recording in a cedar longhouse on the ancestral Nisqually lands of Hweqwidi HANFORD MCCLOUD . The pod chatted with Hanford alongside relatives Juan Carlos Chavez, Alvin Harvey, and a furry friend for support. Amongst the aroma of cedar and displays of relational and practical science of canoe and basket-making, we chatted about cedar bark as insect repellant, trees as t...

The Ancestral Science Podcast was honoured to be gifted some time with TERRI CARDINAL from Saddle Lake Cree Nation. We chatted about Nêhiyaw teachings of death and dying, the science of soothing when grieving, connection between hair and senses / love and grief, death as a transition not an end, disconnecting fear from death, and the how jokes and laughter at the seemingly most inappropr...

With increased conversations about journeying beyond Earth, to Mars and beyond....we thought we would re-release this timely episode we recorded in Fall 2023. We were grateful to speak with  Dr.  ALVIN HARVEY  a Navajo/Diné Scientist about Space Justice, the ethics of travelling beyond Earth, what it means to be in relationship with Space, how space is ALIVE, and why humans really s...

Join the Ancestral Science Pod and learn from CHEYENNE SEGO, about about the scientific significance of the teachings of gut feelings , Anishinabek Mathematics , stories of the time when sturgeon had legs and beavers were giants, economic reconciliation , and the resurgence of Indigenous peoples, science, and the seven sacred teachings . Cheyenne generously donated her honoraria to Na-Me-Res , an...

The Ancestral Science podcast got to learn from Dr. Michael YELLOW BIRD , by first beginning with a guided meditation to ground ourselves and focus on the present, then we explored a mathematical equation for decolonization, how Auntie jokes can protect the brain, the effects of colonization on our bodies and brains, the smell of bacon and well-being, mindfulness and systemic racism, and...

The Ancestral Science podcast fam ALL got to chat with Sahtu Dene mother, wife, activist, political organizer, and podcast host MICHELLE ROBINSON (they/them) about the game and everyday application of mathematics, how nature talks back to us, the silence of snow as a teaching, dogs as ancestors, natural law vs. colonial law, colonization,  addictions and uranium, and how the future and s...

The Ancestral Science podcast fam ALL got to chat with Sahtu Dene mother, wife, activist, political organizer, and podcast host MICHELLE ROBINSON (they/them) about the game and everyday application of mathematics, how nature talks back to us, the silence of snow as a teaching, dogs as ancestors, natural law vs. colonial law, colonization,  addictions and uranium, and how the future and s...

The Ancestral Science Podcast was grateful to chat with Blackfoot Physicist COREY GRAY about inspiring to be the "Blackfoot MacGyver," the connection between the Blackfoot language and Albert Einstein, how we are all a part of space-time, chirps and hairy neutron stars, supermassive blackholes and wolf eyes, and the importance of seeing people that "look like you" in science and physics.   Ha...

Relaunching one of our favourite episodes as the Pod-fam takes some time to plan upcoming episodes, edit, and prepare our merch for upcoming holiday markets! We began the conversation with DR. NICOLE REDVERS (Deninu Kųę́ First Nation) with defining both "science" and "healing," which lead to a conversation about how "everyday can be a healing experience," berries changing genetics, Indigenous Medi...

Welcome Back to the second part of the "Quantum Entanglement ghosts, shapeshifters, and ancestral visits" episode from the ANCESTRAL SCIENCE PODCAST. if this is new to you, please go back to episode one, its a good one!! After many conversations about the "seemingly irrational" experiences we all have had, the Ancestral Science Pod team decided to gather some cool people amid the season where the...

After many conversations about the "seemingly irrational" experiences we all have had, the Ancestral Science Pod team decided to gather some cool people amid the season where the veil between worlds is the thinnest, and everyone's intuition and creepy-meter is heightened... In this TWO PART episode, we chatted about Schrödinger's cat and Sasquatch, shapeshifters and star people, glitches in the ma...

Cree Chef Shane Chartrand with us out on location at CHARCUT University District. Through kitchen pedagogy of breaking bread to expand relationality, Shane taught us about science of food that is hot and cold, how cutting/chopping/slicing foods differently effects their flavour, the connection between reindeer lichen and moustaches, mushroom identification (or not), Tapwe, the dark history of the...

We were grateful to speak with Dr. KAMUELA YONG, a Native Hawaiian mathematician about how mathematics is all around us, calculating latitude by North Star angles, moving islands and the law of cosines, wingspan measurements, Kāuna-number systems, and sea swells as the constant drum beat of navigation.    Remember, you can support the pod and rock some unique Indigenous Science merch at&...

Ancestral Science was honored to speak with Drs. MIWA TAKEUCHI & EUN-JI AMY KIM and learn how to be an ally/friend to Indigenous Science. We learned about the difference between allyship, friendship, and kinship, how to re-centre scientific voices of children, the Land, and Knowledge Keepers, how mathematics both take and give lives, reconciliation work never ends, and the importance of balanc...

We were grateful to speak with Brendon Many Bears from Siksika, and Darren Rea, who is Cree Métis about how relational science is magical and indescribable, and a deep part of Indigenous culture. They talked about how science describes how we are all connected, through frequencies and mycorrhizal networks to tipi poles, and the depth of science within the “sacred aerodynamics” of tipi mathematics,...

It was a warm late spring morning, just before solstice, filming on Treaty 4 Lands within the beautiful Fort Qu'Appelle Valley. We were grateful to speak with DR. GREGORY CAJETE, Tewa from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico about how Indigenous Science is truly the OG (original) science and his life work of weaving together Indigenous and Western science. He also spoke about the connections between co...

We were grateful to NATASHA DONAHUE, a Métis physicist and Indigenous Science educator, about Science and Spirituality, the linear and restrictive history of science, the depth of scientific knowledges within astrology and alchemy, time as a biproduct of energy exchange, how "everything is aware," dwelling in the flux of the "greyspace," and the questions around and relationality of star beings an...