Real Native Roots: Untold Stories Podcast

Self-Care: Alignment towards balance

Real Native Roots: Untold stories presents Evelina "Evey" Maho for September. Evey is an adjunct faculty member of the Falmouth Institute and a co-founder/owner of YM Solutions, LLC.  A woman made up of many people, Evey is a mother, wife, and health professional for over two decades. She shares fond memories of her woman relatives in how they modeled self-care. Evey defines health, highlights self-responsibility, and tips toward defining and creating healthy behaviors. 
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Communities: A reflection of you

Real Native Roots: Untold stories present you, Joseph Kunkel, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation. Joseph takes us back to his reservation and shares what grounds him, critical skills he learned, and understanding the importance of community. Joseph defines communities, what makes up a community, and shares how communities need to heal. He emphasizes how communities are knowledge holders of their own environment. "Come with" is a motto that you will often hear him say as he passionately works in Indian Country, so "come with" us on this short journey. 
 
*This picture dates from the 1930s. Joseph's Great Grandfather Arthur Woodenthigh embraced and raised Teddy Woodenthigh as one of his own.
**Joseph is the Director of MASS's Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Our Way of Life: Passing on Teachings

Real Native Roots: Untold Stories present to you Earl Tulley (Diné) is a member of the Navajo Nation and originally hails from the central reservation community of Blue Gap (Arizona). He states that "home is always in his rearview mirror, but in the forefront of his mind." Earl comes into this world as a relative to many and highlights that we are not alone with father sky above us and mother earth below us. He talks about living in your season, prayers, re-rooting our teachings, sharing how we each have a role in our family and that our way of life (traditional) is what prepared him to be a father. Earl shares a message to fathers, and what drives him to be a better dad is to be remembered by his grandchildren as a good example. Please join me in listening to this beautiful story that harvests so much wisdom.
*Pictures are of Earl and his father. His father, William Tully Brown, was a Navajo Code Talker.
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What carries us: Inspiration and Values

Real Native Roots: Untold Stories presents Ben Sherman from Pine Ridge, SD, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Ben survived boarding school and became a licensed engineer working for large corporations and traveling worldwide with humble beginnings and traditional values instilled by his great-grandmother and mother. Inspired by a commitment to his mother to finish his education, Ben completed his MSc in Management and returned to what grounds him the most, working with Native and Indigenous people. In this conversation with Ben, you will hear what has inspired him through the years, which led to his passion for bridge-building relationships and understanding the power of silence. Ben Sherman is a source of much wisdom and inspiration. 
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Communication and cultural wisdom

Real Native Roots: Untold Stories presents you another Native woman with deep roots. Loris Taylor is a homegirl from Hopi and Acoma Pueblo. She is a woman of wisdom, charm, humor, and humbleness; I could listen to her for hours. Loris talks about the importance of communication. She also gives insight into Native values, cultural shifts, having hard conversations during this time of COVID-19, and our responsibility to make choices that affect our well-being and others in our circle. Loris gives us so much to think about and provides such wisdom for all to consider, please enjoy! #NativePublicMedia
*Please know that that podcast may not be appropriate for young children, as we talk about death and cremation.
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Beauty within and out...

Real Native Roots: Untold Stories ---  In this episode, you will hear from an Oglala Lakota Sioux and Jewish woman that is a tenacious, fierce, and savvy entrepreneur, mother, sister, aunt, and friend to many. Kim shares her story and provides so much insight and tips in reinventing yourself, making meaningful connections, and finding beauty within and in places that need some love and light. Her father, also her mentor and best friend, instilled essential values and inspiration that have carried her through surviving cancer, being a DJ, wife, mother, and creating several entrepreneurial businesses. 
Kim co-owns Etiquette with her husband, a Native own catering business. She is also the owner of Painted Skye Consulting. This firm provides value-based facilitation in the areas of entrepreneurship development and teaching from a unique perspective of culturally based values.

Mom's Story

Real Native Roots: Untold Stories --- My first episode is with my mother. She shares a glimpse of her story and the memories of her birth and foster mothers. You can get a glimmer of what life was like from this reservation boarding school kid (as she refers to herself). Growing up fast and surviving the loss in her mother, she carries on what she knows best, to love. 
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Introducing Real Native Roots: Untold Stories

Real Native Roots: Untold Stories --- Yá'át'ééh (Hello) and welcome to Real Native Roots: Untold Stories with Vickie Oldman. In Real Native Roots: Untold Stories, we'll be hearing from our relatives. This introduction episode will give you a sense of how this podcast came to fruition, what will be talking about and what to expect. Welcome and ahé'hee (thank you) for joining me!
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