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Cults and the Culting of AmericaEpisode 41 | Decolonizing Yourself with Hilary Giovale In this episode of Cults and the Culting of America, host Scot Loyd and Daniella Mestyanek-Young (KnittingCultLady) sit down with Hilary Giovale—a ninth-generation settler living among Indigenous communities in Northern Arizona. Hilary opens up about her journey from segregation to engaging deeply with Native communities, emphasizing how re-education and personal healing can unravel the lasting wounds of colonialism. Hilary discusses the trauma inflicted by Indigenous boarding schools and the persistent impact of white supremacy on both marginalized communities and white culture. By practicing ancestral reverence and focusing on actionable reparations—like supporting sacred landscape prot...2025-06-1056 min
The Serpentine PathThe Legacy of the European Witch Trials with Rachelle SeligaIn this episode I share my conversation with one of my teachers, Rachelle Seliga.Rachelle is a devoted Mother and Midwife whose work is dedicated to midwifing a cultural shift - where our innate wisdom, personal authority and the sanctity of Life are honored and centered. Her legacy work is INNATE Postpartum Care - Certification Training, which teaches the global postpartum tradition of "Physiologic Postpartum Care,” the unifying tradition etched into the blood and bone of postpartum women. Rachelle lives and works from the understanding that: The most effective and powerful usage of our respective & collective energy, com...2025-06-101h 32
EcoJustice RadioBecoming a Good Relative: A Journey of Truth and HealingIn this episode, host Carry Kim welcomes author and community organizer Hilary Giovale to discuss her book, Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers to Truth, Healing, and Repair. Hilary shares her journey of truth, reconciliation, and the importance of acknowledging the histories of Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island. Together, they explore the concept of ancestral amnesia, the impact of white privilege, and the ways in which we can begin to heal and reconnect with ancestral roots, whatever they may be. This episode is a call to action for all settlers to engage in meaningful actions to honor the land...2025-06-031h 02
Matriarch MovementDr. Lyla June: Turning Pain into PowerIn this conversation, Shayla Ouellette Stonechild interviews Dr. Lyla June Johnston, an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer. Dr. Johnston shares her journey of overcoming trauma and addiction, emphasizing the importance of prayer and connection to Creator in her healing process. She discusses the significance of service to the community and how education can be a powerful tool for Indigenous empowerment. Lyla advocates for building alternative systems that honor Indigenous values and knowledge, highlighting the need for regenerative practices to heal both people and the earth. Shayla and Lyla explore the significance of matriarchy, the importance of healing within...2025-06-0241 min
FutureKindRemembering Our Sacred Role, with Dr. Lyla JuneIn this inaugural episode of FutureKind, Dr. Lyla June shares profound insights about humanity's forgotten role as ecosystem architects. Drawing from her groundbreaking research on indigenous food systems and her personal journey of healing, she explores how ancient wisdom can help us transform our relationship with food, land, and ourselves. Dr. June challenges the "pristine myth" of wilderness and reveals how indigenous peoples historically cultivated thriving ecosystems across North America, offering hope for how we might rebuild our connection to the living world today.Learn more about Dr Lyla June JohnstonLyla...2025-01-131h 07
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldNon-Extractivist Learning with Lyla June Johnston and Morag GambleIn this episode, I welcome Dr Lyla June Johnston, a multi-genre Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages to explore what it means to learn from Indigenous cultures in a non-extractivist way. This episode is part of the recorded series from the International Festival of Ideas, held in May 2024.Lyla's conversation is an honest look into how we can move from an embedded colonial-settler mindset when engaging with Indigenous peoples and knowledge to a collaborative and decolonial relationship - asking the question "how can I help, if at...2024-09-2955 min
Peace & Justice ReportSEPTEMBER 25TH 2024: DR. LYLA JUNE JOHNSTON/SANDRA TAPFUMANEYI/PHILIP OF TAARPRDr. Lyla June Johnston is a scientist, public speaker, poet, hip-hop artist, and acoustic singer-songwriter of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and European lineages. Dr. Johnston talks environmental concerns and an approach designed through Native American customs to care for nature.Sandra Tapfumaneyi Sarasota County Emergency Management Chief. Tom replays an interview with Sandra Tapfumaneyi on how Sarasota residences can prepare for hurricane conditions. Weblinks and emergency phone numbers are provided.Philip From The Tampa Alliance Against Racism And Political Repression discusses the August 29th arrest and assault of Pastor Carl Soto by Hi...2024-09-2556 min
The Collective VoiceHave You Heard about Dr. Lyla June audioIn this episode of Have You Heard, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary student and 787 Collective Campaign Leader, Madison Turner joins Rev. Phil Dieke for an engaging conversation with Dr. Lyla June Johnston. Throughout the episode they explore the intersections of spirituality, the climate crisis, and Indigenous wisdom. They also discuss the importance of eco-faith dialogues, the role of the divine feminine in healing, and how communities can decenter humanity to foster environmental stewardship. Lyla shares her personal journey and insights on how collapse can lead to transformation and hope, emphasizing the need for compassion and community in addressing the climate crisis. 2024-09-201h 12
The Science of HappinessHappiness Break: A Meditation on Becoming A Gift To LifeOur happiness is interconnected with the well-being of others, both people and the natural world. Step outside of you can, or imagine the outdoors from wherever you are now, and join us for a meditation that’ll help us be better stewards of the natural world.Link to episode transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y3yfjsxaEpisode SummaryA meditation on how we can give back to the earth, led by indigenous activist, artist, and scholar Dr. Lyla June Johnston.How To Do This Practice
Sit and take four deep breaths to...2024-08-2209 min
RSA ConversationsReGeneration Rising S2E4: Architects of Abundance with Lyla June JohnstonIn this episode, Daniel and Philipa talk with Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organiser, Dr Lyla June Johnston. Lyla June shares lessons from her Diné, Tsétsêhéstâhese and European heritage and highlights the importance of engaging with, recognising and respecting Indigenous wisdom traditions as we seek to reinhabit our world regneratively. Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective, and ecological healing. She blends her study of Human Ecolo...2024-04-1047 min
Nature :: Spirit — Kinship in a living world48. What If Land Were Not Property?Why is there a price on land? When land is the living source of all our food—and of us—why do we think we can own it? We take a look at how private landownership got put into law in England in the 1600s to justify the landlords’ seizing of common lands. And how we might imagine our way to a different system. With inspiration for our imaginations from Dr. Lyla June Johnston (Diné) and Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis. And a first imaginary glimpse into an economy where land is free. Get full access to Nature...2024-03-1624 min
Home to HerThe Story is in Our Bones with Osprey Orielle LakeOsprey Orielle Lake is founder and executive director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network(WECAN), and works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey’s writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in The Guardian, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, Ms. Ma...2024-03-1154 min
From What If to What Next97 - What if there was an alternative to capitalism, after all?Today's episode is a beauty. It brings together Dr. Lyla June Johnston, an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages with Nick Romeo, author of 'The Alternative', to explore 'What if there was an alternative to capitalism after all?' They bring such contrasting yet complementary perspectives for a conversation that, at times, takes the breath away. I hope you love this episode. My deepest thanks to them, and to you for your support of this podcast, and Ben Addicott, as always, for his audio pixie dust sprinkling. 2024-03-1151 min
Nature EvolutionariesTides of Change: Wetlands, Indigenous Food Systems, and the Impact of Colonial Histories with Dr. Lyla June JohnstonHere we delve into the profound intersections of Wetlands, Indigenous food systems, and the enduring impacts of colonization, featuring the esteemed Dr. Lyla June Johnston. A luminary in her field, Dr. Johnston, a poet, anthropologist, and advocate for Indigenous wisdom, will lead us through an exploration of the intricate relationships between these elements. Lyla June speaks about the significance of Wetlands and highlight their importance in Indigenous cultures and food systems. From her unique perspective, Dr. Johnston shares stories and sustainable practices that have shaped Indigenous food cultures and deep connections and partnerships with the land.2024-03-051h 03
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast232. Our Story of Nature: From Rupture to Reconnection - Part Three - Living AS NatureThis week, Christiana Figueres and her guest co-host Isabel Cavelier Adarve introduce the third and final episode in their mini-series, Our Story of Nature: From Rupture to Reconnection. In this episode, Living As Nature, co-hosts and a stellar cast of guests use the pandemic as their jumping off point to unpack how a moment of physical separation, from each other and the natural world, became a strange chrysalis to stronger and deeper interconnections. Contributors from across many religious and spiritual traditions, including Bayo Akomolafe, public intellectual, and Sister True Dedication,Zen Buddhist monastic teacher join Chr...2024-02-151h 07Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast230. Our Story of Nature: From Rupture to Reconnection - Part One - Living FROM NatureThis week, Christiana Figueres introduces a new mini-series, Our Story of Nature: From Rupture to Reconnection. Over three episodes, Christiana and guests will shine a light on our relationship with the rest of nature. Does transforming our connection with the natural world hold the key to transforming our response to the multiple environmental, political and social crises we face? Christiana’s accompanied on this journey by co-host Isabel Cavelier Adarve. Isabel is a former negotiator for Colombia and co-founder of Mundo Comun. In Episode 1, Living From Nature, Christiana, Isabel and guests delve deep into the root...2024-02-081h 08
Holding the Fire: Indigenous Voices on the Great UnravelingReframing Collapse with Lyla June JohnstonDahr Jamail talks with Dr. Lyla June Johnston and gains a far broader perspective on the polycrisis. Lyla June wonders why people are surprised that things have arrived at this point of collapse, given the inherent insatiability of the dominant system of extraction and growth, and the fact that Indigenous people have been issuing warnings for centuries. She also discusses rebirth, consequences of our actions, the creation of new paradigms, the Lakota view of selfishness as a mental illness, gardening our culture, healing, and ultimately, love. Dr. Lyla June Johnston, of Navajo, Cheyenne, and European lineages, received...2023-12-121h 04
The ReMembering and ReEnchanting PodcastEpisode 31: Celebrating architects of abundance: A conversation with Lyla June JohnstonSend us a textIndigenous poet, scholar, musician, and community organizer Dr. Lyla June Johnston joins Sara Jolena to share about her dissertation, "Architects of abundance: indigenous regenerative food and land management systems and the excavation of hidden history". 1:33 - Introducing Dr. Lyla June3:38 - Introducing Lyla's PhD dissertation - Architects of abundance: indigenous regenerative food and land management systems and the excavation of hidden history. 13:48 - "What are the value systems that you found throughout multiple indigenous communities of turtle island?"21:00 - Stories, myths, and values44:34 - Return land. Return l...2023-11-191h 18
Spring Creek PodcastInner Nature: Lyla June Johnston and Riane Eisler In this episode of Inner Nature, we join Lyla June Johnston and Riane Eisler. Their conversation takes us across the globe and throughout the annals of time, from a deeply ancient, harmonious, Neolithic settlement to the devastation of Nazi Europe, and from the pre-colonial mound-building societies of the Muskogee right up to present day. Throughout, they contrast systems of partnership, kinship, love, care, and humility vs. those of domination, violence, oppression, hierarchy, and hubris. They invite us to consider how a culture’s perceptions of gender parallel its regard for the environment. And they urge us to examine our li...2023-10-1852 min
all that we areFuture Paradigms // Compelling Voices In Urgent Times with Lyla June Johnston, Manish Jain, Bayo Akomolafe and Helena Norberg-Hodge - E191How do we create radically new perspectives and prosper antidotes that forge systemic change? In this episode entitled Compelling Voices In Urgent Times, we hear powerful voices gathered from previous podcast episodes including Bayo Akomolafe, Lyla June, Manish Jain and Helena Norberg-Hodge; all of whom recently shared their insights at Planet Local Summit. This episode gathers deep insights into the predicaments of our time. It is an invitation to radically inspire our imagination, shift our perspectives, ask different questions and explore new ways to become involved in serving each other and the world we live in during...2023-10-121h 51
Native Voice One PodcastA Prayer For Salmon: Chapter 7. Agriculture and GenocideThe Run4Salmon bikes through rural areas in the upper Sacramento Valley where Euro American settlers changed the land to better suit an agrarian economy. The Winnemem Wintu and supporters remember the indigenous people who were forcibly removed and killed. An apology in Redding for the genocide may be well intentioned, but Chief Caleen Sisk insists action must accompany words. Read More
“Colonization is the act of being a bad guest in someone else’s house. It is the act of destroying something you don’t understand because you don’t think it’s worth understanding.”
—Lyla June Johnston
Glenn County, CA. May...2023-09-1527 min
Sounds of SAND#39 Tending Our Inner & Outer Landscapes: Lyla JuneLyla June in this illuminating community conversation with Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo shares ways in which indigenous food systems of the past and present teach us how to relate to our inner and outer world. These highly successful systems have been proven to operate based on respect, reverence, responsibility, and reciprocity.
She explores, among others topics: How can we manifest these qualities within ourselves and into the world? How can ancient wisdom help with modern ills? How does inner life reflect in outer behavior?
Stick around towards the end of the episode for an original...2023-06-151h 07
Root AwarenessROOTS OF BELONGINGQuote: “Walk humbly and walk in service, and nothing can ever touch you.” ~ Lyla JuneIn Chapter 4, Roots of Belonging, I begin the episode by sharing a formative story from my life of belonging to Earth and community while witnessing a wise elder from the Diné reservation, speak truth and compassionate wisdom from his heart. I also interview Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June). Lyla is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lin...2023-05-1643 min
Native Talk ArizonaNative Talk Arizona - airdate: 04/25/2023Guests include:Talia White - Program Advisor, Inter-Tribal Student Organization at Mesa Community College Doctor Lyla June Johnston, also known as Lyla June - An Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer whose multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective, and ecological healingSupport the show2023-04-2650 min