RU167: LYLA JUNE & TANAYA WINDER – DREAM WARRIORS, INDIGENOUS SCHOLARS, ACTIVISTS, ARTISTS, CREATORS

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Lyla June Johnston and Tanaya Winder to the podcast! Lyla June is an Indigenous public speaker, artist, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages from Taos, New Mexico. Her messages focus on Indigenous rights, supporting youth, traditional land stewardship practices and healing inter-generational and inter-cultural trauma. She blends undergraduate studies in human ecology at Stanford University, graduate work in Native American Pedagogy at the University of New Mexico, and the indigenous worldview she grew up with to inform her perspectives and solutions. Her internationally acclaimed presentations are conveyed through the medium of poetry, music and/or speech. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in Indigenous Studies with a focus on Indigenous Food Systems Revitalization. https://www.lylajune.com Follow her at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lylajune/ Tanaya Winder is a poet, writer, artist and educator who was raised on the Southern Ute reservation in Ignacio, CO. An enrolled member of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, her background includes Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Diné, and Black heritages. Tanaya writes and teaches about different expressions of love (self love, intimate love, social love, community love, and universal love). https://tanayawinder.com Follow her at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tanayawinder/ Tanaya created Dream Warriors Management, a collective of Indigenous Artists who believe in pursuing passions, dreams, and gifts to better loved ones and communities while also uplifting others. Each artist travels to perform concerts, run workshops, teach empowerment and artistic skill sets, showcase his/her performance art & artistry, and speak at various engagements throughout the country. In addition to their artistic endeavors, they hustle hard to work within communities whenever they get the opportunity. Together, they developed the Dream Warriors Scholarship. https://dreamwarriors.co Support Tanaya at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tanaya You can also check out her TEDx Talk presented at TEDxABQ 2013: Igniting Healing – a powerful talk on the power of poetry and creativity. https://youtu.be/BF1z5XHEMaM This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/XjNH8f2NefI Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374602529 Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo. https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393248524 Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, work, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. www.renderingunconscious.org Support the podcast at Patreon. Your support is greatly appreciated! www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at your favorite podcasting platforms, including: Spotify / iTunes / Soundcloud / Podbean: www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ The song at the end of the episode is “North Star (feat. Quincy Davis)” by Lyla June. All Bandcamp sales benefit @7genfund dedicated to Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination and the sovereignty of Native nations. https://lylajune.bandcamp.com Lyla June's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/lylajohnston/videos?app=desktop Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: Tanaya Winder and Lyla June