Heartberry Podcast
We are two (or too) wholesome kweok who enjoy visiting, and thought we would turn our random chats into a podcast. We are both Indigenous students, one in graduate school and the other in medical school. We have also both experienced a ton of institutional violence, and ignorance in our post-secondary journeys. We are here to chat about those experiences in hopes of creating relationships, opportunities for solidarity, and carving out digital space that takes seriously the perspectives of Indigenous students.
Episodes
16 episodes
Santanna Hernandez: We Will Get There
In this episode, Yotakahron chats with fellow medical student Santanna Hernandez. Santanna is Dene from the Liidlii Kue Nation who was raised on Sto:lo traditional territory. She is mother of 4 kiddos, a first-year medical student at the Univer...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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1:24:11
Daniel Hayden: Don't Settle For What Won't Make You Happy
In this episode, Yotakahron catches up with her friend Daniel Hayden over Zoom (*note the sound quality). Daniel is from the Comanche Nation and is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies plant pathology. Daniel’s wor...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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1:21:46
Dr. Donna May Kimmaliarjduk: Do What You Love
In this episode, Yotakahron has a conversation with the trail-blazing Dr. Donna May Kimmaliarjduk, the first Inuk cardiac surgeon in Canada and a cardiac surgery fellow at The Cleveland Clinic. They discuss Dr. K's journey throughout medicine, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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44:31
Alana Sayers: You Are Not Alone
In this episode, Yotakahron chats on the phone with her friend Alana Sayers, who is from the Hupačasath (Nuu-Chah-Nulth) and Alexander (Cree, Treaty 6) First Nations. Alana grew up on the Hupačasath reserve and went to Haahuuyayak school...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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1:35:54
SOTR: Living A Good Life
CW: suicide SOTR: Shanna is on the road interviewing her supervisor Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos who is Nehiyaw (Cree) and English, and is a member of Fisher River Cree Nation (Ochekwi-Sipi; Treaty 5). He grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Treaty 1)...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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54:26
We Still Exist
We still exist! Welcome to season two. We start this season with Yotakahron and Shanna talking about life updates: what happened during the summer, surviving cornteen, the joy of online school, and the continuous struggle of colonial violence i...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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48:50
This Is My Normal
This episode is sponsored by the Indigenous Education Network at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/ien/). Chi-Miigwech, Niawen'ko:wa!In this epis...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:20:40
YOTR: Feeding your soul...but also do your googles
In this episode of Yotakahron On The Road (YOTR), Yotakahron talks to Ari Thompson who is of Ngaiterangi and Waikato descent in Aotearoa. With a background in law, her expertise sits at the intersection of Indigenous rights, genomics, and innov...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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57:34
YOTR: Finding the Good
In this episode of Yotakahron on the Road (YOTR), Yotakahron chats on a beach with Justin Lund (Diné) in Aotearoa. Justin is a PhD Candidate at the University of Oklahoma in the Department of Anthropology. He studies genetics and bioethics focu...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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52:14
On-reserve during COVID-19
In this episode, Shanna and Yotakahron attempt to record virtually (forgive the Rez wifi cutting out a few times)! Due to the pandemic, they’re both living back in their communities of Wikwemikong and Six Nations. They wanted to share their exp...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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57:20
SOTR: Rebuilding Your Fire
In this episode of Shanna On The Road (SOTR), Shanna sits down with Sharlene Webkamigad, an Anishnaabe nurse who is also from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory. Shar is currently completing a Ph.D. in Northern and Rural Health at Laurentian Univer...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:17:54
Refusing to Cede Land and Institutional Spaces
In this episode, Shanna and Yotakahron give a bunch of life updates! Yotakahron went traveling and Shanna has an exciting announcement! We discuss accepting alternative paths for yourself and re-evaluating your life goals. Then, they have an ho...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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54:48
YOTR: Manifest It
In this episode of Yotakahron On The Road (YOTR), Yotakahron has a conversation with Logan Smith, a Cayuga scholar from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory about his experience working within the Indigenous Knowledge Center, some history a...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:08:32
I Need Better Self-Care
TW: violence, racism, suicide, MMIW, colonial trauma. Shanna and Yotakahron chat about applying to graduate school as Indigenous students because we need more of us in these spaces! They also discuss what violence can look like in t...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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42:27