Guest Joe Pitawanakwat is Ojibwe from Wiikwemkoong and is married with one daughter. Joe has been teaching and curating Anishinaabe educational resources on plant medicines for over 13 years. He is the Founder and Director of Creators Garden, an Indigenous outdoor, and now fully online, education based business, focused on plant identification, beyond-sustainable harvesting, and teaching every one of their linguistic, historical, cultural, edible, ecological and medicinal significance through experiences. Joe's programming is easily adaptable to make appropriate and successfully delivered to a variety of organizations, including more than 100 First Nations communities, 20 Universities and 18 colleges and dozens of various institutions throughout Canada and the United States and beyond. Joe has learned from hundreds of traditional knowledge holders and uniquely blend and reinforces it with an array of western sciences. Follow Joe on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/creators.garden/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CreatorsGarden/. Subscribe to Creator’s Garden on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/JoePitawanakwat. Website: https://www.creatorsgardenmarket.ca/

Production Credits:

Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer

Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer

Orlando DuPont, Radio Kingston Studio Engineer

Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:

1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)

Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters

Album: Tahi (1993)

Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)

2. Song Title: Burning Times

Artist: Rumors of the Big Wave

Album: Burning Times (1993)

Label: Earth Beat

3. Song Title: Shade of History

Artist: Julian Cote feat. Pura Fe Crescioni

Album: Falls Around Her Soundtrack (2018)

Label: Pine Needle Productions

About First Voices Radio:

”First Voices Radio,” now in its 32nd year on the air, is an internationally syndicated one-hour radio program originating from and heard weekly on Radio Kingston WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM in Kingston, New York. Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), who is the show's Founder and Executive Producer, "First Voices Radio" explores global topics and issues of critical importance to the preservation and protection of Mother Earth presented in the voices and from the perspective of the original peoples of the world.

Akantu Intelligence:

Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse