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#15 Frontlines Are Everywhere | Chris Teuton and Roger Fernandes, Stories as Transformation

featuring Chris Teuton (Cherokee Nation) and Roger Fernandes (Lower Elwha S’Klallam Tribe)

In this episode, Jeff is joined by Chris Teuton from the Cherokee Nation and Roger Fernandes from the Lower Elwha S’Klallam Tribe. They discuss storytelling as a powerful tool for transformation, childhood education, and connecting with community teachings – while sharing a few stories along the way!

#15 Frontlines Are Everywhere | Chris Teuton and Roger Fernandes, Stories as Transformation

#14 Frontlines Are Everywhere | Vivian Garner Cottrell, Weaving a Rivercane Resurgence

featuring Vivian Garner Cottrell (Cherokee Nation)

Vivian Garner Cottrell, Cherokee National Treasure and basket maker, is leading the rivercane basket weaving resurgence. In this episode, she joins Jeff to discuss the significance of basket-weaving and her early challenges making baskets out of rivercane. Deeply connected with her mom and ancestral practices, Vivian describes the process of making a basket, from harvesting and dying to the intensive weaving patterns. The basket is a statement of Indigenous resilience, and Vivian continues to share her knowledge with younger generations so that rivercane basket-weaving extends into the future.

#14 Frontlines Are Everywhere | Vivian Garner Cottrell, Weaving a Rivercane Resurgence

#10 Frontlines Are Everywhere | Janelle Niles, Decolonizing…One Joke at a Time

featuring Janelle Niles (Sipekne’katik Nation, Black – Mi’kmaq)

In this episode, Janelle and Jeff talk about sharing decolonial education through comedy, tackling dark topics with humour, comedy inspirations, and Janelle’s work bringing Indigenous comedians together for the Got Land Indigenous Comedy Show. 
Janelle Niles is a two-spirit Black – Mi’kmaq woman from Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia. She is a stand-up comedian, emcee, content creator, TV Personality, and creator & producer of Got Land Comedy – Indigenous Comedy Show.

#10 Frontlines Are Everywhere | Janelle Niles, Decolonizing...One Joke at a Time

#7 Frontlines Are Everywhere — Aaju Peter, Inuit Self-Determination Amidst Shape-Shifting Colonization

featuring Aaju Peter (Inuk lawyer, activist, filmmaker, educator, and clothing designer)

Aaju Peter CM and Dr. Jeff Ganohalidoh Corntassel talk about promoting education in Inuit communities, challenges to food sovereignty in the Arctic, the role grief plays in resilience, and more in Episode #7 of Frontlines Are Everywhere.

Aaju Peter is an Inuk lawyer, activist, filmmaker, educator, and clothing designer. She is on the frontlines of defending the rights of Inuit, including the right to an education and to engage in seal hunting. The documentary Twice Colonized (2023) follows Aaju’s efforts to establish a permanent Indigenous forum at the EU while she undergoes a personal journey of loss and healing.

Listen to Episode #7 on YouTube.

#7 Frontlines Are Everywhere — Aaju Peter, Inuit Self-Determination Amidst Shape-Shifting Colonization

#6 Frontlines Are Everywhere — Flora Northwest, Breaking Intergenerational Colonial Cycles

featuring Flora Northwest (Samson Cree Nation)

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of abuse and sexual violence in residential schools and may be triggering.

Flora Northwest of Samson Cree Nation joined us on September 30th, Canada’s National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, to share her story as a survivor of Ermineskin Residential School. Flora was among the elders who shared their stories with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and later met with Pope Francis when he visited Canada in 2022. Flora talked about her journey to healing, ways to support younger generations, and education as a tool for empowerment.

Listen to Episode #6 on YouTube.

#6 Frontlines Are Everywhere — Flora Northwest, Breaking Intergenerational Colonial Cycles