04/02/23 - Joe Pitawanakwat (Repeat from November 2021)

Apr 3, 2023

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This week we're revisiting Tiokasin Ghosthorse's conversation with Indigenous plant medicine educator Joe Pitawanakwat from November 14th, 2021. Tiokasin will be back with a new episode on Sunday, April 23rd.

Joe Pitawanakwat is Ojibway from Wiikwemkoong and is married with one daughter. 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 reinforce it with and array of western sciences.

Follow Joe on Instagram @creators.garden. Subscribe to Creator’s Garden on YouTube. https://www.creatorsgardenmarket.ca/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Manuel Blas, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1489 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
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)
(00:00:22)

2. Song Title: Burning Times
Artist: Rumors of the Big Wave
CD: Burning Times (1993)
Label: Earth Beat
(00:23:53)

3. Song Title: Chatting Through Steele (feat. David Hidalgo of Los Lobos)
Artist: Cole Gallagher
CD: N/A (released as single October 29, 2021)
Producer: Vance Powell
(00:54:35)

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