On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Friar Francisco Nahoe and Mata'u Rapu about how a priest and a filmmaker got involved in repatriation efforts for Rapa Nui (Easter Island). We learn how 19th and 20th Century European sheepherding ventures circulated Polynesian crania from Rapa Nui across the world; how UNESCO recognition can harm indigenous communities; the close relationship between environmental protection, cultural heritage, and indigenous rights; and most of all how the Rapanui people themselves provide an outstanding example of resilience in the face of environmental precarity and Euro-American colonization. Finally, we explore the challenges of living up to the leadership and legacy of both ancient ancestors and living elders in the effort to find a collective, multi-generational Polynesian voice.

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/91

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Eating up Easter
• Eating up Easter on PBS (Amazon)
• Eating up Easter (PBS)
• British museum public access catalogue
• Moai: Contest Objects from the British Museum Collection
• Article about British Museum Employee who Stole Artifacts from Collection
• Another film made by another Rapanui documentary filmmaker, Leo Pakarati, about Hoa Haka Nana Ia.
• Smithsonian Moai
• Stone Figure Head and Shoulders
• Smithsonian to return ancestral remains to Indigenous Australians
• https://www.instagram.com/smrapu/
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On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Dr. Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan (Tohono O'odham Nation Education Development Liaison at Kitt Peak National Observatory; Tohono O’odham from Wa:k Ceksan [the San Xavier District]) about her work fostering relationships between the Tohono O'odham Nation and Kitt Peak National Observatory through tours for Tribal Departments, programs, and schools, serving as a point of contact for tribal members and the Nation as a whole, sharing Tohono O’odham history and culture with general public visitors, and continuing to build on the promises made during the original agreements to lease the land from the Tohono O'odham Nation. Additionally, Dr. Ramon-Sauberan (or Dr. J.) works with the larger Astronomy community on how to be a good neighbor to Indigenous communities. Throughout Dr. J’s career, her focus has always been on providing resources and serving Indigenous communities, from journalism that focused on Indigenous people making a difference in the world to developing her dissertation that centered community voices as a resource on land and water rights in Wa:k Ceksan (the San Xavier District).

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/90

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Kitt peak article
• Kitt Peak National Observatory
• Kitt Peak National Observatory Hosts Open Night for the Tohono O’odham Nation (article)
• Tohono O'odham Community College
• Mission Garden
• Friends of Saguaro National Park
• Arizona Humanities speakers group
• Arizona Humanities Lecture (Video), “Caretakers of the Land: A Story of Farming and Community in San Xavier with Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan”
• Arizona Humanities Lecture (Video), “Food Sovereignty in the Desert: Reclaiming Traditional O’odham Foodways with Dr. Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan”
• NOIRLabAstro Lecture (Video), “Information On The Tohono O'odham History And Culture”
• San Xavier Cooperative Farm
• Tohono O’odham Young Voices Podcast Episode

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On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Dr. Jessica Black (Gwich’in; Associate Vice Chancellor and Associate Professor in the College of Indigenous Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks) and Dr. Courtney Carothers (Professor of Fisheries in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks). Dr. Black and Dr. Carothers discuss their work, alongside student colleagues and Alaska Native peoples, to highlight Indigenous fisheries knowledge, Indigenous fisheries science and governance practices, and the structural inequities that keep Indigenous peoples in Alaska from their deep traditional cultural practices, livelihoods, and relations. All of this deeply relational work lead to the birth of Tamamta (a Yup’ik and Sugpiaq word meaning 'all of us'), an organization focused on connecting Indigenous and Western sciences and supporting graduate students deeply connected with Indigenous communities in Alaska on research around fisheries.

Interested in the Accountable Allies group? Keep an eye on the Tamamta website or sign up for their mailing list for resources that this group has been developing.

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/89

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Tamamta
• State of Alaska’s Salmon and People (SASAP)
• Aulukluki neqkat: centering care of salmon and relational research in Indigenous fisheries in the Kuskokwim River, Alaska (Esquible et al 2024 article)
• Indigenous peoples and salmon stewardship: a critical relationship (article)
• Indigenizing Salmon Management
• Indigeneity, an alternative worldview: four R's (relationship, responsibility, reciprocity, redistribution) vs. two P's (power and profit). Sharing the journey towards conscious evolution (article by La Donna Harris and Jacqueline Wasilewski)

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