On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Tuula Sharma Vassvik (Sámi activist, land protector, musician, podcast host, and freelance contractor in Heritage and Indigenous Methodologies) about their journey through archaeology to Indigenous methodologies and land protection in Sápmi. Tuula’s work focuses on solidarity across cultures and class, as well as community building and future building within Indigenous ways of life. We talk about their time at Standing Rock and how that shaped not only their Masters thesis, but their life trajectory. We also discuss their involvement in protests against wind turbines on reindeer herding areas, the destructive impact of farmed salmon on the coast and coastal Sámi people, as well as topics they have explored with their podcast guests, including Indigenizing queerness. Today’s takeaway: Don’t buy farmed salmon from Norway!

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Tuula’s Podcast: Vuostildanfearánat - Sámi stories of resistance on SoundCloud
• Vuostildanfearánat - Sámi stories of resistance on Spotify
• Arctic Silk Road: Imagining Global Infrastructures and Community Boundaries in Sápmi and the Russian North Project
• Tuula’s Instagram
• Tuula’s music
• Tuula’s article: VUOIŊŊALAŠVUOHTA—Sámi Spirituality, Yoik and Its Relations
• Master thesis
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
• Rauna Kuokkanen’s Restructuring Relations: Indigenous Self-Determination, Governance, and Gender
• RiddoDuottarMuseat
• Sámi protesters, Greta Thunberg, end demonstrations against wind turbines (News Article)

• Hildá Länsmann
• Lávre

• Jessica Jessica@livingheritageanthropology.org @livingheritageA @LivingHeritageResearchCouncil

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On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Maura Sullivan (PhD student in Linguistics at Tulane University; Irish-American, Chumash and Mexican heritage, and an enrolled member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation). Maura gives Jessica a crash course in many different language topics such as the difference between language work and linguistics, what is a minoritized language, and how you can revive a language in ways other than with fluent speakers (such as the Breath of Life program). She emphasizes the need for structural changes to support language work, but also some ways that we can all be better relatives and give back on an individual level. Maura also described varying creative methods to support language work, including how she incorporates her art, provides intra-community language materials, as well as making the Šmuwič language more visible where appropriate.

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/87

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Darrell R. Kipp writing “Encouragement, Guidance, Insights, and Lessons Learned for Native Language Activists Developing Their Own Tribal Language Programs”Breath of Life Program
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, Book by Linda Tuhiwai SmithCoLang
• Encouragement, Guidance, Insights, and Lessons Learned for Native Language Activists Developing their Own Tribal Language Programs report by Darrell R. Kipp
• Appalachians against pipelines: https://www.facebook.com/appalachiansagainstpipelines/; https://www.aapsolidarity.org/ ; @‌stopthemvp (twitter); @ appalachiansagainstpipelines (Instagram)
• American Routes Podcast

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On today’s episode, Jessica goes more in depth with Joseph Gazing Wolf (Executive Director, Heritage Lands Collective [formerly Living Heritage Research Council]; Lakota, Nubian, and Amazigh) from Episode 84 on the Boulder Ethnographic-Education Project. On this episode, Joseph talks about how his childhood in Egypt and on the Standing Rock reservation inspired his interest in land, heritage, traditional ways of life, and working with elders. He talks more about his work with his buffalo relatives and how that led him to academia. He discusses how the settler-colonial context of academia is harmful to Indigenous scholars and how people in academic settings can engage with Indigenous communities in a relationally respectful manner. Finally, we conclude by talking about the work Heritage Lands Collective is doing and where Joseph would like to take it in the future, including Indigenous youth internships and youth-elder camps.

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/86

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Heritage Lands Collective website
• Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section of the Ecological Society of America Resources Page
• More links available at: https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/86

• Jessica Jessica@livingheritageanthropology.org @livingheritageA @LivingHeritageResearchCouncil

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