Welcome to On The Land:  Stories from the People, Stories from the Land. 

On The Land is a podcast to center Indigenous People and our relationships to the Land. We tackle difficult discussions surrounding climate change, land rights, and access to land, water and air from an Indigenous perspective.

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⁠March is here and in the Arctic we know what that means - the return of the Midnight Sun and welcoming the first season of On The Land: Xilegg - Our Arctic Presence. ⁠⠀⁠
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Our Arctic Presence brings you the Voices of the Arctic. In this season we visit with People from throughout the Circumpolar North, tackling difficult discussions surrounding the health and well-being of caribou, reindeer, and fish and other animal relations, the impact of thawing ice and permafrost in our communities, and dive into what we imagine our futures to look like as Arctic Indigenous Peoples. ⁠⠀⁠
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Voices featured on this trailer 
James Temte 
IG @jrtemte 
Website www.temteabstract.com 

Martina Fjallberg IG @martinafjallberg

Áslat Holmberg 

Juno Berthelsen 
IG @junojunebug1

 Haliehana Stepetin
IG @indigenous_agent & @fitn8vs

Nils Ándá Baer
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Music by Zachary Arthur Matthews @elephanmt 
Graphics by Laura Jaramillo

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Ade’ Relatives – Ndadz Ding’ita? I have a question for you.
Where are you finding your medicine?

In this final episode from Alaska’s First Just Transition Summit  we visit with Naomi Michalsen. 
Naomi Michalsen, Kaasei and  Daaw Da Oo (Tlingit names), is Wooshkeetaan, Eagle/Wolf of the Shark House of Berners Bay, Alaska. Naomi and her husband live in Ketchikan and have 5 adult children, and 9 grandchildren.  

Naomi is the owner of Kaasei Training & Consulting, a business she started in 2014 to help inspire people to learn more about traditional foods and plants.  Hiking, gathering, preserving workshops and cooking activities help participants further their understanding of our beautiful surroundings, increase appreciation for the deep cultural history of the Indigenous people of Alaska while gathering traditional plants and wild foods ethically and respectfully.  

She has her certification in Ethnobotany from the UAF and has served as a cultural instructor at youth culture camps, schools and university programs.  Kaasei is a safe food and home preservation instructor and indigenous foods chef. 

Check out Kaasei Training and Consulting @ kaasei.com 

The music for this episode was created by Evan Phillips, Creator and Host of The Firn Line Podcast 
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IG: @thefirnline

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Kotre'lenayh: When Grandmothers Speak w/Naomi Michalsen

Ade’ and welcome to the first episode of Xilegg: Our Arctic Presence. 

In this episode, originally recorded in late October of 2019, we visit with Unangax̂ scholar, activist, and performance artist Haliehana Stepetin. 

During our conversation we touch on the mapping of Indigenous spacialities that help us imagine and construct our understanding of the world as contemporary Indigenous peoples rooted in the constellations of our ancestors. Haliehana also speaks to her relationship with Iqyax (kayak) building. 

Haliehana Stepetin is Unangax̂ and was born and raised in the village of Akutan in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. She brings this upbringing into her re-search theorizing subsistence cosmologies as the central component connecting aspects of Unangax and Indigenous ways of knowing in the diverse topics of study she engages. Haliehana is a PhD student in Native American Studies at the University of California Davis. Haliehana is a scholar and activist, an Unangax̂ dancer, choreographer, Indigenous performance artist, Unangam Tunuu learner and Indigenous language activist, subsistence practitioner, and Navy veteran. Her scholarship engages Indigenous performance as embodied knowledge to (re)center Indigenous Knowledge systems in education and academia with, by, and for Indigenous and Alaska Native communities. 

Follow Haliehana’s work:
Website: https://www.haliehana.com/about.html
IG: @indigenous_agent 

Referenced in this episode – 

 Mark My Words : Native Women Mapping Our Nations by Mishuana Goeman 
Find her book here: 
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/mark-my-words

Falling From the Night Sky by Joy Harjo 
Visit Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s site here:
https://www.joyharjo.com/

Tattooist -Sarah Whalen-Lunn
IG:@inkstitcher 

Contribute to the Native Scholarship Fund for Backcountry Avalanche Training in partnership with Coalition Snow! 
Contribute here: https://www.coalitionsnow.com/blogs/blog/native-scholarship-fund
And follow Coalition Snow @coalitionsnow 

Music in this Episode brought to you by BedTrack’s Storyteller Initiative 
Song 1: MotherBear 
Song 2: Nation to Nation 

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Xilegg I. Mapping: Accessing Indigenous Belonging to Place w/ Haliehana Stepetin

Welcome to On The Land: Stories from the People, Stories from the Land. 

On this podcast, we bring you the voices of Indigenous People in this time of political and climate insecurity. We tackle difficult discussions on who has access to land, water, and air and offers a contemporary understanding of what it means to be Indigenous and live in relation to what is often known as the “outdoors” or “the wild.

We invite you to come along and support our journey as we tell our stories from our perspectives.

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