First Voices Radio

Joe Pitawanakwat joins Tiokasin Ghosthorse for the full hour of this episode. Joe 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, 18 colleges and dozens of various institutions throughout Canada, the United States and beyond. 

Joe has learned from hundreds of traditional knowledge holders and uniquely blends and reinforces it with an array of western sciences. Follow Joe on Instagram @creators.garden. Subscribe to Creator's Garden on YouTube.

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

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)

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

2. 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)