Episodes

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 Scoring from Berklee College of Music. She is also a co-founder and board vice president for Indigenous...

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 Native women from one sacred site of the Lakota to Sturgis biker rally in early August, she admits to feeling the...

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 Native women from one sacred site of the Lakota to Sturgis biker rally in early August, she admits to feeling the...

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 Native women from one sacred site of the Lakota to Sturgis biker rally in early August, she admits to feeling the...

When the Oglala Lakota Episcopal Church was formed in 2008, as a response to the dishonoring of past relations, many of the Nungpa Tatanka Tayoshpaye 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 community, she is currently serving her second term as President. Alongside her family, TR will be t...

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, Colleen Bernu ( Fond du Lac). Who am I related to after listening for the other persons perspective? When t...

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 tribal inclusion within the church since he started in 1988-89, Vance expressed frustration that many of the same i...

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 tribal inclusion within the church since he started in 1988-89, Vance expressed frustration that many of the same i...

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 and Executive Director of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery.

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 and Executive Director of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery.

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, don't tell." We all know people who tell stories, and yet fail to grip their full meaning. But, where might we find s...

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, don't tell." We all know people who tell stories, and yet fail to grip their full meaning. But, where might we find s...

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 of Lake Superior Chippewa say to a group of east Duluth community members; "From east Duluth to west Du...