Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse hosts another monthly roundtable. His guests tonight are Christian Matute Sagbay, Rad Pereira and Dioganhdih Hall.

Christian Mature Sagbay incarnated on the lands currently referred to as Gualaceo, Ecuador. Not too long ago it was kichwa/kañari territory. This recognition of land and language has drawn Christian to the work of language justice. He is currently exploring this avenue of healing while keeping in mind the need for future generations to decolonize themselves through expansive and yet connective land-based principles.

Rad Pereira (they/them) is a queer trans (im)migrant artist and cultural worker of Pindorama, Abya Yala (Brasil) building consciousness between healing justice, system change, reindigenization and queer futures. They are based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn) and Haudenosaunee territory (northern Hudson Valley). Their work in performance, education, facilitation and social practice has been experienced on fields, stages, screens, stoops and sidewalks all over Turtle Island. They are co-founder of You Are Here, a community-based organism that creates art and healing opportunities for and with QTGNC2SIA+ and BIPOC artists and healers. They co-wrote Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965-2020, By Those Who Lived It with their mentor, Jan Cohen-Cruz, available through New Village Press. They are Director of Engagement & Impact at NY Stage & Film. They are building a Native led food sovereignty and world building project called Iron Path Farms. They are a solidarity economy organizer working across platforms, communities and industries. @______rad___

Dioganhdih Hall, Mohawk of Akwesasne, is a  Haudenosaunee community member and a two-spirit multi-disciplinary artist based in their traditional homelands in so called "upstate NY." Their medium of expression weaves between ancestral food cultivation, storytelling, community organizing, hip hop lyricism, beat production and sound engineering. Their primary focus of their work is claiming space for native folks to re-indigenize and find movement and joy in the interconnected liberation of our bodies, spirit and land. Dioganhdih is currently working on a food sovereignty project in the Hudson Valley called Iron Path farms (@ironpathfarms).

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Music selection

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: Jungle; Artist: Tash Sultana; Album: Notion EP (2016); Label: Lonely Lands Records (00:27:30)

3. Song: Mother Earth; Artist: SOJA; Album: Peace in a Time of War (2002); Label: SOJA Music (00:54:47)