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O Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL) é a maior mobilização indígena do Brasil. Em 2024, ano de seu 20º aniversário, 9 mil indígenas do Brasil e do mundo reuniram-se em Brasília para defender seus direitos e suas terras. Atualmente, a representação indígena no governo brasileiro é a maior de todos os tempos. Muito mudou ao longo desses 20 anos de ATL, mas pairavam sobre a reunião as preocupações de todos com a tese do marco temporal, que poderia limitar os direitos de muitos povos indígenas a suas terras. Neste episódio, ouviremos muitos dos sons, cantos, músicas e vozes do Acampamento Terra Livre 2024. A luta pelos direitos indígenas no Brasil é uma luta de todos: uma luta pelo planeta Terra, pelo clima e por justiça social. Independentemente de onde você estiver, essa luta também é por você.  

Apresentação, produção, tradução e mixagem de áudio: Marianna Romano.  

Produção adicional: Idjahure Kadiwel.  

Edição de histórias: Jenny Asarnow e Maria Fernanda Ribeiro.  

Agradecimentos especiais a Nara Baré e Daniela Lerda.  

Saiba mais sobre o Acampamento Terra Livre e o trabalho da Apib:  

• Site da Apib: https://apiboficial.org/?lang=en#  
• Siga a Apib no Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apiboficial/  

Seedcast is a production of Nia Tero, a global nonprofit which supports Indigenous land guardianship around the world through policy, partnership, and storytelling initiatives.

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Acampamento Terra Livre, or Free Land Camp, is the largest Indigenous mobilization in Brazil and 2024 marked its 20th year, as 9,000 Indigenous People from across Brazil – and the world – gathered in Brazil’s capital, Brasilia, to defend their rights and their lands. With more Indigenous representation in the Brazilian government than ever, some things have changed in twenty years, but the “Marco Temporal” law that could limit many Indigenous Peoples' rights to their lands loomed over the gathering. In this episode, hear many of the sounds, chants, music and voices from Acampamento Terra Livre 2024. 

The fight for Indigenous rights in Brazil is a fight for everyone: for planet Earth, for the climate, for social justice. No matter where in the world you are, this fight is also for you. 

Host, Producer, Translator, Audio Mix: Marianna Romano. Additional Production: Idjahure Kadiwel. Story Editors: Jenny Asarnow, Maria Fernanda Ribeiro. Special thanks to Nara Baré and Daniela Lerda.  

Learn more about Acampamento Terra Livre and APIB: 

• APIB Website: https://apiboficial.org/?lang=en# 
• Follow APIB on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apiboficial/ 

Seedcast is a production of Nia Tero, a global nonprofit which supports Indigenous land guardianship around the world through policy, partnership, and storytelling initiatives.

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“Indigenous Peoples, who want their territory demarcated for the protection of their own lives, automatically protect the life of humanity.” – Dinamam Tuxá (Tuxá People, Brazil) 

Brazil is home to an outsized portion of the world’s biodiversity. It is also one of the most dangerous places in the world for environmental defenders – but also a place guarded by hundreds of powerful Indigenous tribes.   

This week, thousands of Indigenous Peoples from across Brazil are gathered in the country's capital, Brasília, with bold hope for the future, and to share culture, celebrate, and demand their rights to their lands and to their cultural ways of being. This gathering is called Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL), or in English, Free Land Camp – and it's been happening for 20 years.   

To celebrate its twentieth anniversary, we're sending our Seedcast producers to Brasília, and today on Seedcast, we’re getting a preview of Acampamento Terra Livre with Dinamam Tuxá, of the Tuxá People. A lawyer and Indigenous social activist, Dinamam is a legal advisor to the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations of the Northeast, Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo (APOINME), and the coordinator of the Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB). APIB strengthens, unifies, and mobilizes Indigenous Peoples to promote and defend their rights. APIB also organizes Acampamento Terra Livre.   

Dinamam joins us in conversation with Ha’aheo Auwae-Dekker (Kanaka Maoli).  

Special thanks to Nia Tero colleagues Maria Fernanda Ribeiro, Nara Baré and Leslie Benzakein.   

Host: Ha’aheo Auwae-Dekker. Producer, Translation and Audio Mix: Marianna Romano. Additional Production: Jenny Asarnow, Idjahure Kadiwel

Learn more about APIB: 

• APIB Website: https://apiboficial.org/?lang=en# 
• Follow APIB on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apiboficial/ 

Seedcast is a production of Nia Tero, a global nonprofit which supports Indigenous land guardianship around the world through policy, partnership, and storytelling initiatives.

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“Os povos indígenas que querem o seu território demarcado para a proteção da sua própria vida automaticamente protegem a vida da humanidade.” Dinamam Tuxá (Povo Tuxá, Brasil) 

O Brasil abriga uma enorme parte da biodiversidade global. É, também, um dos lugares mais perigosos do mundo para os defensores ambientais — mas também está sob a guarda de centenas de poderosas nações indígenas.  

Esta semana, milhares de povos indígenas de todo o Brasil estão reunidos na capital do país, Brasília, com ousada esperança no futuro para compartilhar cultura, celebrar e exigir seus direitos a suas terras e a seus modos culturais. Esse encontro — o Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL) — já acontece há 20 anos.  

Para celebrar o 20º aniversário do ATL, nossos produtores do Seedcast estarão em Brasília. Hoje teremos uma visão prévia do Acampamento Terra Livre com Dinamam Tuxá, do Povo Tuxá, aqui no Seedcast. Advogado e ativista social indígena, Dinamam é assessor jurídico da Articulação dos Povos e Organizações Indígenas do Nordeste, Minas Gerais e Espírito Santo (APOINME) e coordenador da Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB). AAPIB é uma articulação de todos os povos indígenas do Brasil que fortalece, unifica e mobiliza os povos indígenas para promover e defender seus direitos. A APIB também organiza o Acampamento Terra Livre.  

Dinamam se junta a nós numa conversa com Ha'aheo Auwae-Dekker (Kanaka Maoli).  

Agradecimentos especiais aos colegas da Nia Tero Maria Fernanda Ribeiro, Nara Baré e Leslie Benzakein. 

Apresentação: Ha'aheo Auwae-Dekker, Marianna Romano, Idjahure Kadiwel 

Produção, tradução e mixagem de áudio: Marianna Romano  

Produção adicional: Jenny Asarnow, Idjahure Kadiwel 

Saiba mais sobre a APIB: 

• Site da APIB: https://apiboficial.org/?lang=en# 
• Siga a APIB no Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apiboficial/ 

Seedcast is a production of Nia Tero, a global nonprofit which supports Indigenous land guardianship around the world through policy, partnership, and storytelling initiatives.

Enjoy the Seedcast podcast on the Nia Tero website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your other favorite podcast platforms.

Keep up with Seedcast on Instagram and use the hashtag #Seedcast.

Close your eyes. Imagine standing on land that your family has held for generations. The waters that trickle nearby sing your family name, and your ancestors are there with you, buried deep in the earth. Now, imagine a stranger coming along and violating this land with no regard to the lineage it carries. 

This is the story at the heart of our latest Sonic Journey. We’re sharing the story of the Fukumitsu family who is protecting their land -- their ‘āina -- through the Emmy Award-winning film “Pili Ka Moʻo” by Justyn Ah Chong with Malia Akutagawa (both Kanaka Maoli.) 

“Pili Ka Moʻo” is a part of the first season of our sibling initiative Reciprocity Project. This is also the film that inspired Seedcast producer Stina Hamlin to embark on our whole Sonic Journey Series, and we understand why: this film not only includes the strong voices of the Fukumitsu family and their ancestors, but it also includes beautiful sounds from their kalo, or taro, fields and the collective voice of a community standing up for the land and their ancestors. 

Justyn’s film is part of Reciprocity Project, a collaboration between Nia Tero and Upstander Project, in association with REI Co-op Studios. 

Host and Story Editor: Jessica Ramirez. Producer: Stina Hamlin. Story Editor and Audio Mix: Ha'aheo Auwae-Dekker.  

Learn more:  

• Watch the film and learn more here.  
• Listen to our previous episode with Justyn: Celestial Wayfinding and Pili Ka Mo’o with Justyn Ah Chong  

 Listen to previous Sonic Journey Episodes:  

• Sonic Journey One: Sonic Journey One: Diiyeghan naii Taii Tr’eedaa  
• Sonic Journey Two: Sonic Journey Two: Weckuwapok (The Approaching Dawn)  
• Sonic Journey Three: SŪKŪJULA TEI (Stories of My Mother)  
• Sonic Journey Four: Ma’s House 

Seedcast is a production of Nia Tero, a global nonprofit which supports Indigenous land guardianship around the world through policy, partnership, and storytelling initiatives.

Enjoy the Seedcast podcast on the Nia Tero website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your other favorite podcast platforms.

Keep up with Seedcast on Instagram and use the hashtag #Seedcast.

In our latest Sonic Journey, join us on the lands of the Shinnecock Nation, which have been cared for by the Shinnecock People for over 10,000 years. Here, photographer and artist Jeremy Dennis has restored his family’s home in order to create a place for creativity, care, and community for a new generation of BIPOC artists. This unique space is called Ma’s House, and Jeremy documented the building’s restoration in a short film of the same name. 

Lean closer and listen to fond remembrances of Ma from her descendants. Sense the transformation with the sawing and hammering of Jeremy’s construction. And feel your hair rustled by the salty breezes of the Atlantic Ocean.  

Jeremy's film is part of Reciprocity Project, a collaboration between Nia Tero and Upstander Project, in association with REI Co-op Studios. 

Host: Jessica Ramirez. Producer: Stina Hamlin. Story Editor and Audio Mix: Jenny Asarnow.  

Relevant Links: 

• Learn more about Ma’s House: Website + Instagram 
• Watch the film Ma’s House on Reciprocity.org. 
• Previous Sonic Journey Episodes: 
  • Sonic Journey One: Sonic Journey One: Diiyeghan naii Taii Tr’eedaa 
  • Sonic Journey Two: Sonic Journey Two: Weckuwapok (The Approaching Dawn) 
  • Sonic Journey Three: SŪKŪJULA TEI (Stories of My Mother) 

Seedcast is a production of Nia Tero, a global nonprofit which supports Indigenous land guardianship around the world through policy, partnership, and storytelling initiatives.

Enjoy the Seedcast podcast on the Nia Tero website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your other favorite podcast platforms.

Keep up with Seedcast on Instagram and use the hashtag #Seedcast.

Who’s ready for a little Indigenous joy, knowledge, and inspiration? We’re starting Seedcast Season Four with deep listening, as a powerful way to witness one another.  

Welcome to the rich desert landscape of the Wayuu People on the Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. You hear more from birds, goats, and cacti in this story than you do people, and when you do hear human voices, they’re speaking Wayuunaiki, the language of about half of Wayuu Peoples, a language currently undergoing a revitalization. This Sonic Journey centers the film SŪKŪJULA TEI (Stories of My Mother), the story of two Wayuu women teaching the next generation valuable lessons about reciprocity. Even if you don’t speak Wayuunaiki, the rhythms and tones of the elders in the story will no doubt stir in you memories and lessons from your own parents, grandparents, and ancestors. 

SŪKŪJULA TEI (Stories of My Mother) is a collaboration between director David Hernández Palmar and his mother, Flor Palmar. The film is part of the first season of our sibling initiative Reciprocity Project. Reciprocity Project is a collaboration between Nia Tero and Upstander Project, in association with REI Co-op Studios. 

Host and Story Editor: Jessica Ramirez. Producer: Stina Hamlin. Audio Mix: Ha’aheo Auwae-Dekker.  

Seedcast is a production of Nia Tero, a global nonprofit which supports Indigenous land guardianship around the world through policy, partnership, and storytelling initiatives.

Enjoy the Seedcast podcast on the Nia Tero website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your other favorite podcast platforms.

Keep up with Seedcast on Instagram and use the hashtag #Seedcast.

We can’t believe that we are kicking off Season 4 of Seedcast on February 14! With so much chaos and noise around us, we’re going to start off this season by getting grounded and listening to Indigenous song and language. So here’s an invitation: Close your eyes, and get quiet: What do you hear from the world around you, from the lands you’re on? And what does that stir inside of you? 

Season Four of Seedcast starts with a series of Sonic Journeys, which immerse us in the deep knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and the homelands they’re connected to, as featured in our sibling initiative, Reciprocity Project. 

Enjoy this sneak peek at the next three Seedcast episodes. And until the first one is released on February 14, listen to our previous Sonic Journeys and watch the films in the first season of Reciprocity Project. Reciprocity Project is a collaboration between Nia Tero and Upstander Project, in association with REI Co-op Studios. 

Host: Jessica Ramirez. Producer and Audio Mix: Jenny Asarnow. 

Relevant Links: 

• Listen to Sonic Journey One: Sonic Journey One: Diiyeghan naii Taii Tr’eedaa 
• Listen to Sonic Journey Two: Sonic Journey Two: Weckuwapok (The Approaching Dawn) 
• Watch the first season of Reciprocity Project. 

Seedcast is a production of Nia Tero, a global nonprofit which supports Indigenous land guardianship around the world through policy, partnership, and storytelling initiatives.

Enjoy the Seedcast podcast on the Nia Tero website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your other favorite podcast platforms.

Keep up with Seedcast on Instagram and use the hashtag #Seedcast.

Here in the northern hemisphere, as the winter solstice approaches, the light is changing quickly, and the sun sits lower on the horizon with each passing day. By now, all the harvest celebrations have come to an end, but the practice of gratitude and acknowledgement for the rewards of summer’s hard work continues.  

As we wrap up Season 3 of Seedcast, this very special final episode is dedicated to the hard work that has gone into this podcast. We revisit the diversity of nine productions created since last autumn by different producers. Through this journey, Executive Producer of Seedcast, Tracy Rector, shares her gratitude for how each of these creatives have played a vital role in the storytelling of Seedcast. 

Storytelling is one of the most connective experiences people have with each other. Throughout the world during the coldest months, Indigenous Peoples wintertime traditions most often include sharing stories about who they are, their histories, and lessons of the season to offer wisdom and inspiration across the generations. Winter is a time to share what we have, to draw from what has been gathered to give us energy and offer lessons of survival through the coldest of seasons and it is through storytelling that the link between humans and all life on Earth – seen and unseen - is understood, maintained, and nurtured.  

As our team settles in for the winter, we ask you, our listeners: How will you come together in kinship this winter? Wintertime is the perfect occasion to get to know one another better through storytelling, ceremony, and joy. Enjoy! 

Special thanks to special artistic contributors Jennifer Kreisberg, Joel Schomberg and Mia Kami.  
 
Host + Co-Producer: Tracy Rector. Co-Producer + Story Editor: Stina Hamlin: Audio Mix: Ha’aheo Auwae-Dekker 

Episodes Mentioned: 

• Indigenous Sovereignty Begins At Birth: A Conversation with Camie J Goldhammer 
• Princess Daazhraii Johnson and the Generation Reclaiming Gwichʻin 
• The Omen Birds Still Sing in Sungai Utik 
• How Stories Give Life to Knowledge and Culture: Two Decades of imagineNATIVE 
• ʻNo Climate Justice Without Racial Justiceʻ: Rev. Yearwood and Leo Cerda with Tracy Rector 
• The Life-Giving Pottery of Katsitsionni Fox 
• Indigenous Narrative Sovereignty on TikTok 
• DJ Eric Terena: The Collective Sounds for a New Era 
• ʻWeʻve Become Paolo for Everyone’: Creating UTOPIA for Queer and Trans Pacific Islanders 

Seedcast is a production of Nia Tero, a global nonprofit which supports Indigenous land guardianship around the world through policy, partnership, and storytelling initiatives.

Enjoy the Seedcast podcast on the Nia Tero website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your other favorite podcast platforms.

Keep up with Seedcast on Instagram and use the hashtag #Seedcast.

“Our way of life is a collective. All Blackfoot people are one.” - Johnathon Red Gun (Siksika) 

In Blackfoot Territory, a powerful people is in relationship with a powerful place. At the Continental Divide, the snow-capped Rocky Mountains leap out from prairies that stretch out flat for what feels like forever. Rivers from Blackfoot Territory flow across much of North America, and the Blackfoot see their territory as the source of water for this vast continent. 

Spend time with people from the Blackfoot Confederacy who are resisting ongoing colonialism, awakening their culture, listening to elders, and regaining sovereignty of their land, language, and spirit. As Liz Fox (Kainai) shares, “Living your culture and wanting to preserve it; there's a lot of work that goes into it, and there's a lot of peace that comes from it.” In addition to Liz Fox, we’re also honored to share the voices and stories of Doane Crow Shoe (Piikani), Rose Fox (Kainai), Johnathon Red Gun (Siksika), Tyson Running Wolf (Blackfeet Nation), and Lona Running Wolf (Blackfeet, Haida, Little Shell Creek.) There are four tribes within the Blackfoot Confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, and Amskapi Piikani (commonly referred to as Blackfeet Nation.) 

This episode includes interviews and audio from the Wayfinders Circle film “Siksikaitsitapi,” which has been co-created with the Blackfoot Confederacy and directed by Bryan Gunnar Cole, with additional production support from Nils Cowan and Jacob Bearchum.  

We’re grateful for the collaboration on this story with the Blackfoot Confederacy, which is part of the Wayfinders Circle. Wayfinders Circle is a global network of Indigenous Peoples from around the world who work to strengthen self-determination in managing their lands and territories and maintain the cultural and spiritual continuity through intergenerational transmissions. It is a joint effort convened by the Pawanka Fund, World Union of Indigenous Spiritual Practitioners, and Nia Tero. 

Special thanks  to Nia Tero colleagues Mariana López, Marianna Olinger, Michael Painter, and David Rothschild. 

Host: Jessica Ramirez. Producer + Audio Mix: Jenny Asarnow: Story Editor: Jacob Bearchum.  

Links: 

• The Blackfoot Confederacy website + Facebook
• Blackfeet Eco Knowledge 

More Wayfinders Circle Collaborations:

• The Boat of Dreams: How the Achuar Embraced Solar Power 
• The Omen Birds Still Sing in Sungai Utik
• Tuhaymani'chi Pal Waniqa (The Water Flows Always) in the Mojave Desert

Seedcast is a production of Nia Tero, a global nonprofit which supports Indigenous land guardianship around the world through policy, partnership, and storytelling initiatives.

Enjoy the Seedcast podcast on the Nia Tero website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your other favorite podcast platforms.

Keep up with Seedcast on Instagram and use the hashtag #Seedcast.

“If you want to talk about the Indigenous Food Warrior, that's what we all are.  We're here to protect. We're here to give. We're here to heal.” - Chef Crystal Wahpepah (Kickapoo) 

How Indigenous people show up in the kitchen is how they will show up for community, so the responsibility and care in creating food for others is taken very seriously, from the recipes created to the sourcing of ingredients. 

Our latest Spotlight comes from the amazing team behind The Native Seed Pod. In this episode, we get to hear a fast-moving conversation between guest host Sara Moncada (Yaqui) with Indigenous chef Crystal Wahpepah (Kickapoo), who is the owner of Wahpepah’s Kitchen in Oakland, California. Crystal received the Indigenous Artist Activist Award and has been inducted into the Native American Almanac for being one of the first Native American women to own a catering business. In 2016, she was the first Native American Chef to compete in The Food Network’s show, Chopped, and in 2022, she was a finalist for a prestigious James Beard Award in the category of “Emerging Chef.” Crystal and Sara talk about Native foods, how they carry their shared work of educating the next generation on preserving Indigenous food systems, and what it means to be an Indigenous Food Warrior. In addition to hosting this episode of The Native Seed Pod, Sara is also the current CEO of The Cultural Conservancy, which is the home of The Native Seed Pod, as well as a grantee of Nia Tero. 

The Native Seed Pod has just started their fourth season, so catch up on their episodes on their website or on your favorite podcast platform. 

Special thanks to the vibrant team behind The Native Seed Pod: Mateo Hinojosa, Melissa K. Nelson, Sara Moncada, Raven K. Marshall, and more. 

Learn more:  

• Learn more about and listen to more episodes of The Native Seed Pod 
• Learn more about Crystal Wahpepah and Wahpepah’s Kitchen 
• Learn more about The Cultural Conservancy, home to The Native Seed Pod 

Seedcast is a production of Nia Tero, a global nonprofit which supports Indigenous land guardianship around the world through policy, partnership, and storytelling initiatives.

Enjoy the Seedcast podcast on the Nia Tero website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your other favorite podcast platforms.

Keep up with Seedcast on Instagram and use the hashtag #Seedcast.