Let's Have a Powwow

Hawe Relatives, This week on the pod, I sit down with Sutton King. An Afro-Indigenous leader, health equity advocate, MMIW activist, and Executive Director of the Urban Indigenous Collective. Called to New York City with a purpose, Sutton has answered that call through higher education, deep community engagement, and, most importantly, by listening. In Lenapehoking, she has built relationships roo...

Patricia Tarrant is the Executive Director of the American Indian Community House In NYC. She is following in the footsteps of her mother and other Tarrant family members who have been hugely responsible for building the Indigenous community we currently benefit from in New York. Listen in as I ask Trish the very important questions like, what was it like partying with Ex New York City Mayor Eric...

Welcome back relatives! This week on the Podcast I speak with Alex DeRoin, a fellow Osage Okie. Alex is a Two-Spirit artist, poet, storyteller, and awarded water protector. Their passion lies in creating safe spaces in marginalized communites. Where being queer and 2 spirit can be an even more isolating existence. Part of their resistance work is Pioneering the LANDADAISM art movement. A movement...

Send us Fan Mail Ha. We Relatives! This week on the pod, I’m joined by Davy Tiger Cortes , co-founder of Decolonize Sports. A n Indigenous-led sports media platform amplifying Native athletes, with a deep focus on lacrosse, also known as The Creator’s Game by the Haudenosaunee. Alongside his cousin Brandon and brother Dominic, Davy has helped build a space where interviews, photography, production...

Send us Fan Mail Ha. We Relatives! This week I’m joined by Indigenous drag legends Lady Shug and Oliver Herface , fresh from the First Nations Performing Arts Winter Party here, in Lenapehoking! From Lady Shug’s groundbreaking appearance on HBO’s We’re Here - the first time I ever saw Indigenous drag on a major network, to Oliver Herface’s work as a Two-Spirit Boricua drag king, producer, and cult...

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m joined by Sun Roller , a true force in production and community. I first met Sunny during Indigenous New York Fashion Week and immediately knew she had a story that needed to be shared. In this episode, we talk about the many lives Sun Roller has lived, her journey into film and television production, and her work on Reservation Dogs, Poker Face, and The Lowdown . Be...

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m joined by Mickela Mallozzi. Host, creator, and executive producer of Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi . Bare Feet is a thirty-minute travel series that highlights traditional dance and music cultures from around the world. A professional dancer and trained musician, Mickela seamlessly weaves her two greatest passions travel and dance into a show that is as joyful as i...

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m joined by Loren Waters and Tafv Sampson. Loren is an award winning Filmmaker who was recently in New York City for a screening of her short documentary Tiger, A captivating 13 minute film about the legacy of the Tiger family in Oklahoma. The film is Oscar-qualified, and Loren took home a directing award at Sundance earlier this year. She keeps receiving well deserved...

Send us Fan Mail Hawe, cousins! Welcome to the Music Episode! There is so much incredible music coming out of Indian Country right now, and today I’m joined by two of my favorite Native artists to celebrate it. First up, Lucaa calls in to talk about her new single “Feast,” intentionally released this November during Native American Heritage Month and the Thanksgiving holiday. The track is a cinema...

Send us Fan Mail We share a candid, funny, and deeply rooted conversation with Oscar-nominated composer and bassist Mali Obomsawin, tracing a path from Western Maine to Indigenous jazz lineages, archival repatriation, and a pedalboard moment with Yo-Yo Ma. Music, memory, and sovereignty braid into songs that carry both grief and lift. • identity as Abenaki Wabanaki and citizen of Odanak First Nati...

Send us Fan Mail Ha.we and welcome back, this week I speak with NYC urban indigenous royalty, Murielle Borst-Tarrant. She was born in New York City and was raised in a mafia run Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn. Murielle’s one woman show Tipi Tales from the Stoop , showcases the woes of Being the only indigenous family living on the block. Yes, there was racism, prejudice, and all the ignorance yo...

Send us Fan Mail This week I speak to one of my favorite humans, Kalyn Fay. If you are lucky enough to know them, you know what I mean. Kalyn is an oklahoma born and bred indie folk  songwriter and musician who writes songs about their homelands.  When I listen to their music it's like a loveletter to Oklahoma.                                                  We discuss the family trip to Branson...

Send us Fan Mail This week I speak with Chyana Marie Sage, Chyana is an award-winning Cree, Metis, and Salish Poet, Author, and model. She is the first Indigenous graduate from Columbia University’s MFA in Creative/Non Fiction. Chyana was the first person in her cohort to become a published author. Her Debut gift to us all is her memoir Soft as Bones  . It is an intricately woven story about her l...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back, this week I speak with Thomas Lopez Jr. AKA Landback Baddie! Thómas was born and bred to be an activist. Having both parents deeply involved in the Chicano and the American Indian movements, Thómas has activism and community action in his blood. As a young adult, Thómas joined the Standing Rock encampment and like so many who were there answered the calling to carry...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome Back to Lets have a powwow, I am your host Amy Farid. Happy Pride month and for our relatives up north Happy Indigenous History Month! I had the pleasure of talking to Omar Monroy, A Trans, Indigenous Mexican jewelry designer and artist. Omar’s, Jewelry line El Techichi, features statement pieces Hand crafted out of vintage metals and Gemstones. What drew me to their Jewel...

Send us Fan Mail Ha. Way! Welcome back! This is a special on the road episode. My family friend and brother back home John Parker asked if I would like to help out with hair on the New Sterlin Harjo show filming in Tulsa. Of course I wanted to come back home and work on Sterlins Production cuz it is literally history in the making. But I also wanted to come home and record an episode specifically...

Send us Fan Mail Ha. Wa! Welcome back, get ready to dive into the second part of my chat with The Relative Arts Icons! We talk about our hopes and dreams of having native therapists and doctors in the near future! The ladies discuss their Oscar’s trip, Curating the creativity lab at the MOMA, and Emme Studio, Korina’s line will be showing May 11th at Native Fashion Week in Santa Fe! They share the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back! On this episode I speak with Korina Emmerich and Liana Shewey, The founders of New York City’s Relative Arts. Relative arts is a Brick and mortar store located in the East Village. With over 50 artists and designers to choose from, The store is THE go-to for Indigenous made goods. Relative arts is so much more than a store. It is beautiful example of a Peer-run commu...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is perfect for the budding filmmaker or fashion designer. Not only are Razelle and Jontay Roomates, they are also incredibly talented! They followed their dreams and New York City welcomed them with open arms. Razelle was urged to apply to NYU Tisch school of film, and not only was she accepted, she was given a full ride scholarship. Jontay was approached by Parsons s...

Send us Fan Mail On this weeks show, we are giving you an all Indigenous Hairstylist episode! I needed to have a good ol' Kiki and if it's one thang a hairstylist can do is KIKI! My guests this week are two hairstylists. Chad Taber is a behind the chair master hair colorist and a Twin!  Deyah Cassadore has been my assistant on set for so long she doesn't even assist anymore. We discuss how we firs...

Send us Fan Mail This week I speak with Elena, AKA, Brooklyn Warmi. Elena is a model, mother, jewelry designer, and adoptee. Her story is complex and beautiful. Just the way we like it. I wanted to know how she got from Peru to Brooklyn and she graciously shared her adoption story with us. We talk about being BBW's who workout to feel good! This episode is giving BIG LIBRA energy so you've been wa...

Send us Fan Mail On this weeks Episode, I speak to a fellow Wahzha’z Yatika Starr Fields. Yatika was in New York for the opening of his solo Exhibition, “Home as it Was” at Garth Greenan Gallery. The show features large scale shields, that are constructed out of tent and Tarp materials. His shields evoked a feeling of resilience and necessity. They were stunning to see in person. I highly recommen...

Send us Fan Mail Ha. We Relatives! Welcome to the inaugural episode of Let's Have a Powwow Podcast! When I was creating this show I knew Immediately that I wanted Josie and Jayden as my first guests! They are best friends who create beautiful things together. I needed their energy with me as I figured out what the hell I was doing. Mercury was in Microwave(or at least felt like it) when we recorde...

Send us Fan Mail Let's Have a Powwow is centered around the Urban Indigenous experience in NYC. We will talk about guests Homelands and How and Why they came to the big city. We will also cover culture and fashion as it is a big part of my life. Being a fat, brown woman working in Fashion for over 20 years I've heard it all! Let's Have a Powwow is inspired by those cringe moments we've had in prof...