See you later! The series ends much the same way it began, knowing that our stories matter because we do. In this final conversation with Jesse Wente we talk about his memoir Unreconciled and the way that the stories that we hear, the stories we tell ourselves, and then the stories we tell each other shape what it is to be Indigenous.transcripts available at thousandworlds.ca

ZegaajimowinanScary stories. This podcast conversation with Jay Odjik and Lee Francis IV along with Anrya Foubert and Neil Ellis Orts talks about scary stories, futurisms, and the power of storytelling in graphic format. We consider the ways that we have been presented in the past and how we tell our own stories in the present.

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On a summer afternoon I sat under the pines at Bruce National Park and had a conversation with friends about the life and writing of Richard Wagamese-ba, a man whose life took a similar trajectory to my own and who feels like a grandfather to generations of Indigenous writers.

His writing is a search for home, for family, for belonging. For the connections between us that exists in stories.

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N'dadibaajim: I tell a story. This conversation brought together two published memoir writers, Ernestine Hayes and Kaitlin Curtice, along with Demita Frazier, one of the co-founders of the Combahee River Collective whose interview was included in How We Get Free, Joy Henderson who is working on her own memoir of growing up in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood, and photographer Jenessa Galenkamp. This conversation includes the books we read, but also reflects on the process and purpose of memoir-writing and the complexity of identity as a constant state of evolution and rebuilding.

In the book, Bad Indians Book Club, the flash fiction that precedes the chapter includes a young man wearing a tshirt by Johnnie Jae that has an image of Sasquatch, who the Ojibwe know as Sabe, and the phrase "live laugh lurk." For the Ojibwe, Sabe represents the teaching of Honesty, which is more than truth-telling. The word often translated as honesty is gwayakwaadiziwin and it has to do with living our lives in a way that aligns with our actions. James Vukelich writes that it breaks down to: observe how I live and the truth will come of it. This is memoir, the unburdening of the truths of our lives and the hope that the things we say align with it.

Transcripts for all episodes are available at thousandworlds.ca

Niinwi. The Ojibwe have two ways to say "us." There's Niinwi, which is us but not you and Giinwi, with is us that includes you. This conversation about refusing the patriarchy considers what, exactly, we mean by "we." Readers , Nick Thixton, Jenessa Galenkamp, Robyn Bourgeois, and Angela Gray join authors Seán Kinsella and Taté Walker to talk gender, patriarchy, and finding our own way.

Editing and transcriptions done by Tiffany Hill with the generous support of Dr. Eve Tuck of the Visiting Lab in Lenapehoking. Our theme is Biindigen, an original song composed and performed by Nicole Joy Fraser

All transcripts are available at https://thousandworlds.ca

Returning to ourselves. Biskaabiyaang is often used to talk about returning to ourselves, returning to who we were meant to be and for the Ojibwe that means going into the woods. The stories we tell about history shape how we understand our present and lay the foundation for the futures we are able to imagine and work towards. This conversation with authors Nick Estes, Cheryl Savageau, and Tiya Miles along with readers Jenessa Galenkamp, Khadija Hammuda, and Sean Kinsella considers the stories we tell about history, the gaps, and how we can begin to think differently about ourselves and each other.

Editing and transcriptions done by Tiffany Hill with the generous support of Dr. Eve Tuck of the Visiting Lab in Lenapehoking. Our theme is Biindigen, an original song composed and performed by Nicole Joy Fraser

All transcripts are available at https://thousandworlds.ca

We continue our look at the strengrth of the land by talking with author Ziya Tong, ethnobotanist Dr. Jonathan Ferrier, Mayam Garris, and Ben Krawec to talk about food sovereignty, or autonomy. What kind of medicine do we get from a starving relative? And what are some interesting ways that we can work with the land and each other.

Editing and transcriptions done by Tiffany Hill with the generous support of Dr. Eve Tuck of the Visiting Lab in Lenapehoking. Our theme is Biindigen, an original song composed and performed by Nicole Joy Fraser

transcripts for all episodes available at thousandworlds.ca

Mashkiki is often translated as strength from the land, a good way to think about medicine and the things that show up for us. In this conversation with authors Daniel Heath Justice and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, readers Jenessa Galenkamp, Celeste Smith, and Ben Krawec talk about the world around us and what it would take for our communities to see the night sky.

Editing and transcriptions done by Tiffany Hill with the generous support of Dr. Eve Tuck of the Visiting Lab in Lenapehoking. Our theme is Biindigen, an original song composed and performed by Nicole Joy Fraser

transcript available: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dCmhthRDznmqMYUJOSezGssKo06FZYGwdOP-MeRBWJY/edit?usp=sharing