(Prelude) For the Love of Seven Generations

Aug 17 2023 • 28 mins

Carly and Danielle share the story that started everything for them… it begins in the frostbitten footsteps of a 9 year old Choctaw girl and the work of her great-great-great granddaughter.

Content warning: mentions of colonial violence.

Credits

Host: Carly Morrisseau and Danielle Wray
Episode Producer: Danielle Wray
Editor: Felipe Contreras and Tamara Chavez
Mixer: Felipe Contreras
Executive Producers: Michelle Johnson Jennings, Kimberly Huyser, Katie Collins and Tamara Chavez
Senior Producer: Felipe Contreras
Producers: Danielle Wray, Jordan Derkson and Sterling McGregor
Graphic Designer: Carly Morrisseau
Music featured from Nihimá Nahasdzáán by Kino Benally

Guest Bio

Dr. Michelle Aihina Inkinsh Holhpokunna Johnson-Jennings, a Choctaw tribal member and mother of four, passionately co-develops land-based health interventions based on ancestral principles. Her aim is to renew well-being and revive medicine, food, and land-based practices. As an Indigenous health psychologist, she recognizes CIEDAR's importance in establishing a global network for Indigenous communities. This network fosters the exchange of strategies and ideas between esteemed scientists and Indigenous partners, effectively preventing and mitigating risks tied to COVID-19 variants, particularly regarding land-based healing practices.

(Re)storying implies that stories are shifting, changing, being re-spirited. (Re)storying involves questioning the stories we believe about the world and returning to Indigenous knowledges and narratives regarding our connection to land, others, and self.

Acknowledgements

The (Re)Story Podcast is a CIEDAR project. We recognize Katie Collins (University of Saskatchewan), Tamara Chavez (University of British Columbia), Kimberly Huyser (University of British Columbia) and Michelle Johnson-Jennings (University of Washington) as our Executive Producers for their role in conceiving, producing, and owning this podcast.

This podcast was supported by the Coronavirus Variants Rapid Response Network (CoVaRR-Net). CoVaRR-Net is funded by an operating grant Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)— Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (FRN# 175622).