On The Land is a podcast created to center Indigenous voices and our experiences on the land. We are qayaqers and berry pickers, we are climbers and hunters, we are commercial, fly, and subsistence fisher people, we are backpackers and trappers, and we exist on the land that has served our ancestors for millennium. The ways that we experience “nature” are complex, deep, intergenerational and interdependent. Our being is rooted in our relationship to the land despite generations of attempted and forced genocide, removal, and assimilation. On The Land offers a contemporary understanding of what it means to be Indigenous and live in relation to what is often known as the “outdoors” or “the wild.” In this time of political and climate insecurity, On The Land allows us the space to explore our relations to the land as it shifts and readjusts under the pressures of man-made climate change. What happens when fisheries move north due to higher water temperatures for subsistence and commercial users alike? How will heavier rains and variable snowpack impact everything from climbing and skiing to whaling and caribou harvest? What does it mean to be an Indigenous person grappling with and defending the land from the villages, reservations to cities and places such as Washington, D.C, Ottawa, Reykjavik and the United Nations? On the Land highlights our knowledge systems, our inherent athleticism, and entangles the past, present, and future to tackle difficult discussion surrounding access to land, water, and air and our futures as people of this earth. We hope that however you define yourself, whether you are a skier or a climber, a policy maker or a scientist, a lawyer, or activist, maybe you are all of these, regardless we hope that you find something here and spread the word – welcome to On The Land.