Grandma Dr. Henrietta Verle Mann (Southern Cheyenne) speaks loving words to Our People in this special podcast episode. If you are having a tough day or navigating challenges, save this episode — her voice and presence will encourage and uplift you. Dr. Mann is a respected Native scholar, educator, and activist who has dedicated more than 40 years to advancing Native American higher education. Born in Clinton, Oklahoma, she helped establish Native American Studies programs at universities across the country, including UC Berkeley, the University of Montana, Haskell Indian Nations University, and Montana State University, where she held the Katz Endowed Chair in Native American Studies. She later served as the founding president of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College and now continues her commitment as a board member for the Center for the Futures of Native Peoples. Her leadership and scholarship have been honored nationwide, from a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Indian Education Association to being named one of the top ten professors in the nation by Rolling Stone. In 2023, President Joe Biden awarded her the 2021 National Humanities Medal at the White House, recognizing her lifelong dedication to strengthening Native education, uplifting Native voices, and ensuring that the histories and futures of Indigenous peoples are carried forward with integrity and power.

Dr. Ka'ow'dthu'ee sits down with Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson (Hopi) during his first visit to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he spoke at Dickinson College’s Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. Dr. Johnson shares the brilliance of Hopi dryland farming and reflects on the responsibility to carry forward ancestral knowledge. Their conversation explores Indigenous ingenuity—how traditional farming practices embody innovation, resilience, and a deep relationship with the land in the face of climate and cultural challenges.

In this episode of The Indigenous Revolt, Dr.  Ka'ow'dthu'ee shares a personal journey from Carlisle to Gila River, witnessing President Joe Biden deliver a historic apology for the federal Indian boarding school policy. The episode begins on October 24, 2024, traveling from Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania to Phoenix, Arizona, tracing the movement from the site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School to the homelands of the Gila River Indian Community.

The journey includes reflections from the reception hosted by former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland at the Huhugam Heritage Center on October 24, followed by the presidential apology on October 25, 2024.

Dr. Ka'ow'dthu'ee offers an on-the-groundperspective of what it felt like to be present—to listen, to witness, and to carry generations of survival and resistance into this historic moment. This is not just about an apology—it’s about remembrance, healing, and honoring thosewho came before us.