Mother Earth Medicine Podcast - Episode 5 - Indigenous Kenya: The Power of Luhya Knowledge to Protect Biodiversity with Dr. Nelly Masayi
In Episode 5, co-host Dr. Lyla June Johnston (Diné/Tsétsêhéstâhese) speaks with Dr. Nelly Masayi (Luhya), an Indigenous academic from western Kenya, about the role of Indigenous knowledge in protecting biodiversity, addressing climate change, and sustaining communities. Together, they explore the impacts of colonization on Indigenous cultures, land ownership, food systems, and women’s roles.
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Interview Ben Koissaba on Preparing Indigenous Peoples to Navigate UN Spaces
Ben Koissaba shares insight on how Indigenous peoples at the United Nations can better navigate the permanent froum and other UN spaces.
Indigenous Pathways For Wellbeing
Researcher Elizabeth Hacker describes research about how Indigenous individuals create their own frameworks to define "well-being" to counter Western ideas of well-being. She found three important concepts for Indigenous well being are, Meeting basic material needs; social harmony and sense of belonging; and cultural identity. Dev and Elizabeth discuss examples from her research in India and Kenya.
Forum on Free, Prior, Informed Consent in Maa
In January 2015, Cultural Survival sponsored the first radio forum on free, prior, informed consent to ever hit Kenya’s airwaves in the Maasai langugae Maa. Broadcast on Mayian FM and Nosim FM
Produced by: Ben Koissaba, Emmanuel Kisemei, Ole Kintet, Daniel Tenaai, and Rahab Kenana