Voices From the Land Podcast
A Lakota holy man once stopped in a sea of grass to talk to a stone.
Addressing it reverently, he called to Tunkashila,
which means “grandfather.”
“Grandfather, tell me how the world began.’’
And the stone spoke......
COMING SOON!
Welcome to Voices From the Land
“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world.” - Nicholas Black Elk.
The Voices From The Land podcast returns to older ways of knowing. Land lives. The cosmos responds. Human beings are part of a larger living whole. Each episode explores wilderness as teacher, traditional knowledge as practice, and story as memory carried forward.
The work responds to a condition shaping modern life. Disconnection Sickness grows through separation from land, body, community, and meaning. The podcast addresses this condition through reconnection rather than commentary. Practice replaces theory. Relationship replaces abstraction.
Conversation stays grounded in lived skills. Tracking, foraging, plant knowledge, navigation, and ancestral practices foster connection to place and support self-reliance. Stories of land carry history, instruction, and orientation shaped through time.
Experience sits at the center. Knowledge forms through lived contact. Walking. Fasting. Dreaming. Time alone. Indigenous traditions across cultures hold experience as authority. Truth grows through action rather than belief.
Inspired in part by Vine Deloria Jr.'s The World We Used to Live In, the podcast takes a simple view. The miraculous never disappeared. Attention faded. Ways carried by medicine people, visionaries, and dreamers continue through practice and notice.
Voices From the Land features conversations with elders, earth-based teachers, historians, trackers, and storytellers. Personal accounts of change through wilderness appear alongside cultural memory. Land teaches relationship. Responsibility follows.
The work does not chase miracles. The work restores attention. Forest. Mountain. Ceremony. Silence. Inner ground.
Voices From the Land offers an invitation. Remember. Restore relationship. Return to what endures.