The Aunties Dandelion

What can food tell us about who we are? This month, we visit with Kendal Garlow, a Kanyen'kehà:ka food sovereigntist, entrepreneur, and recent graduate of McMaster University's Master of Indigenous Studies program. Through a Haudenosaunee lens, Kendal explores the relationships between food, identity, language, health, community, history, and belonging. Her master's research asked a deceptively si...

Alycia Two Bears practices birthing as ceremony and sees support for pregnant and birthing bodies as key to healthy communities. Through her work and as a mother of five, she advocates for home births, midwifery, and informed access to birthing choices. Alycia recently won University of British Columbia's Carol Hird Memorial Award for dedication to practice in underserved communities. Alycia...

On this dynamic episode we welcome back award-winning Auntie/Film Director Paige Bethmann (Mohawk/Oneida) to discuss what film looks like when it is led through our Onkwehón:we/Haudenosauenee ways of knowing, being, and doing. Paige is the director of the 2025 breakout film REMAINING NATIVE - which premiered at SXSW and won both Audience and Special Jury Awards there. REMAINING NATIVE , a coming-o...

Indigenous Women’s Leadership with NMAI Director Cynthia Chavez Lamar and co-hosts Kahstoserakwathe and Taiawentón:ti'  It’s an Awesome Auntie co-hosting collaboration this month as Taiawentón:ti' Chelsea Sunday (Kanyen’kehà:ka) joins Kahstoserakwathe to visit with Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Director Cynthia Chavez Lamar (San Felipe Pueblo, Hopi, Tewa, and Navajo). Cyn...

The Aunties Dandelion Season Five begins with a full house, a generous conversation, and stories grounded in land, memory, and care. Last fall at the Cambridge Public Library, Kahstoserakwathe moderated a sold-out evening with celebrated author and media creator David A. Robertson of Norway House Cree Nation. This was TAD's first episode recorded with a live audience. Together, they explored how l...

What a dynamic visit this month with Tuscarora Turtle clan scholar, curator, historian, and artist Dr. Jolene Rickard. At Cornell University, she teaches in the History of Art and Visual Studies and Art Departments, where she has long guided students through Indigenous studies leadership and practice. She co-curated two of the four permanent exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the...

Betty Osceola  (Miccosukee, Panther Clan) grounds us in the spectacular land and life of the Everglades in this visit with host Kahstoserakwathe. She explains how the region’s natural filtration system protects fresh water for millions, carries cultural memory for the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, and sustains plant, animal, and water relatives. Betty is well known for her prayer wa...

Here is our lates Aunties Emergent episode, hosted by Cayuga curator and media artist Alex Jacobs-Blum . This is the second Aunties Emergent episode Alex has hosted this year - the first was with  Grandmother René Thomas-Hill and her grounded approach continues to nurture the next generation of Indigenous storytellers. In this episode, Alex visits with  Jaime L. Montour , an Indigenous w...

The Aunties Dandelion is proud to share this new instalment of our Aunties Emergent series, guest-hosted by  Alycia Two Bears , Mistawasis Nêhiyawak First Nation—an author, poet, full-spectrum birth worker, and land-based yoga teacher—who visits with  Otakwan , Métisse, Otipemisiwak Nation—an educator, supermodel, producer, and activist. This mentoring series highlights the voices of you...

Four years ago, we sat down with Kahehtoktha Janice Brant one of the first Aunties we ever interviewed for this podcast. She’s a Kanyen'kehà;ka Mohawk Seed Keeper, farmer, and co-founder of the Kenté:ke Seed Sanctuary. And honestly, that episode still stands out because of who she is - so we are very happy to include her in the first of our Aunties Revisited series. Her name, Kahehtoktha , means “...

Wa’tkwanonhweráton sewakwé:kon — greetings love, and respect to all of you listening, and a special shoutout if you're making your way to or from the Great Law Recital in Tyendinaga. In this episode, we’re visiting with Kawénnakon Bonnie Whitlow . Her name means in her words , and over the years, she’s lived profoundly into that name — through art, education, original language work, and some unexp...

We are living in tremendously uncertain times and this month’s guest, artist Yvette Molina , reminds us through her expansive work of the relationship between justice and care. Yvette is Mexican-American of Chippewa of Turtle Mountain descent who is currently artist-in-residence at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. Her collaborative exhibition, A...

Our Aunties Emergent mentoring program returns as guest host Alex Jacobs-Blum Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (Cayuga), Wolf Clan, Six Nations of the Grand River visits with Grandmother Renée Thomas-Hill Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk), Turtle Clan, Six Nations of the Grand River As a Haudenosaunee woman, Grandmother Renee Thomas Hill carries the deep responsibility of upholding and sharing the teachings of “Our” Way of Li...

On this episode from Rematriation's Indigenous and Haudenosaunee Matrilineality Symposium, Auntie Kahstoserawkathe visits with filmmaker/potter Katsitsionni Fox (Kanyen'kehà:ka) and interdisciplinary artist Ty Defoe (Ojibwe, Oneida) on their shared focus on Seeds through their individual projects. Wa'tkwanonhweráton to the symposium organizers at Rematriation and the vision Kaluhyanu:wes Michelle...

This month we visit with masterful interviewer  Ansley Jemison  (Seneca Nation, Wolf Clan), host of the  Original Peoples Podcast  (OPP). We loved that the “Eastern Door” show (TAD podcast from Kanyen’kehà:ka territory) is crossing over with Ansley's excellent “Western Door” show. We had a rollicking time covering culture, art, traditional teachings, clans, while exploring sens...

AUNTIE: Wa’tkwanonweráton Sewakwé:kon. Today, we’re visiting with Alex Jacobs Blum who is Cayuga and Wolf Clan, from Six Nations of the Grand River. Raised away from her territory, Alex now engages dual tracks of art and curation to find a pathway—to the natural world, her Haudenosaunee teachings and community - and to herself. Alex shares her remarkable journey back to Cayuga territory in Central...

AUNTIE: Wa’tkwanonhweráton Sewakwékon! We’re starting strong in this Ohserá:se – this New Year – on The Aunties Dandelion podcast as we visit with Iehstoseranón:nha, who is Kanyen’kehà:ka and Bear Clan.   Iestohseranon:nha is a feather protector, community connector, and graphic artist. She is also a survivor of the Sixties Scoop – a term that refers to Canada’s mass removal of Onkwehón:we ch...

Honoring our epic Auntie Germaine Tremmel (kénha) in this powerful episode — a Lakota Water Warrior, lawyer, and descendant of Sitting Bull. 💧✨ We first met her in 2017, in the wake of the Standing Rock protection actions, and her wisdom and humour still pushes and pulls on us. Joining Kahstoserakwathe is Wisconsin activist and Food Sovereignty advocate Rebecca Kemble. Together, we remember Aunt...

Dr. Beverly Jacobs - University of Windsor bio This month, we’re visiting with beloved Kanyen’kehà:ka/Mohawk citizen Dr. Beverly Jacobs . She is Bear Clan, an activist and justice leader for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and land back actions, and a law professor at the University of Windsor. Bev’s life and work is focussed on global Indigenous wellness as it intersects with both Haudenosa...

Dana Tiger's website Loren Waters website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nęyękwawęta'θkwáhshek - Tuscarora Language Program Onkwawénna Kentsyóhkwa - Six Nations Kanyen'ké:ha language program that helped Tuscarora Nation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Here's the FB page for Skaronhyasekò:wa - The Mohawk immersion school where Otsistohkwí:yo works with early years students and where Tehahenteh taught when the school was being built.  Tekarahkwarásare = The Eclipse  (the faces that lay over each other) Kayanere'kó:wa - The Great Law (the great space between steps) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Art Gallery of Hamilton - 500 Year Itch Shelley Niro's Website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.