Nicholas Galanin (Ya Tseen)

Photo by Merritt Johnson

Musician and artist Nicholas Galanin joins Dwyer to talk about land acknowledgment, leaving Alaska to live in London as a young man, and his pursuit of music. 

Openings Song, "Knives," by Ya Tseen from the album Indian Yard

Nicholas's website HERE 

Landback GOFundMe HERE

More about Landback: All funds raised will go towards repatriating land back to Indigenous communities and to support the LandBack movement, to continue the acquisition of land titles for Indigenous nations to have legal standing under U.S.law to protect traditional territories. The LandBack movement is a regenerative, sustainable effort to center Indigenous knowledge and repair damages done to land and all people living here. The impacts of invasion, colonization, settlement and forced assimilation continue to have multi-generational impact upon us all. These impacts are varied, they are experienced differently and disproportionately, evident on the land and water, the changing climate and ecosystems. Reparations for what has been forcibly taken from Indigenous Nations must be grounded in ceding land; to end occupation and begin coexistence, with Indigenous leadership, to return to healthy and regenerative relationship with land. 

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