Over the past few months, I have journeyed to the Yukon in partnership with illuminating world views.

Illuminating worldviews serves as a space to examine the worldviews amidst which we find ourselves

and see how they actively

shape the material realities of our lives. This project, rooted and colored by the land of the

Yukon, makes space for questioning, examination, and a future visioning, centered in indigenous

ideology, and the sentiment of journeying.

In person and on the land, I've had the chance to speak with incredible thought leaders

with deep connections to the Yukon, all with a live audience in the beautiful city of Whitehorse,

except for the last event, which was in Dawson City. Though this series is

deeply local, it has broad implications for our culture as a whole, and I'm so excited to share it

with you. This series was produced thanks to the generous support of the team at Illuminating

World Views held by the River Collective and the Northern Council for Global Cooperation.

We are so grateful to the organizers, speakers, and audience members who made this series possible.

And also a very big thank you to the land of the Yukon, the boreal forests, the rivers, the lakes.

I am honored to have been asked to be part of this.

In this episode, we hear from Zuni Lance Twitchell on language, culture, and the words that tie us together. I was so sad that I wasn't

able to make this one in person with Lance, but this episode holds a specific place in this series

and my heart as it centers the Klingit language and ways love, locality, and communication can

shape our futures. Azuni Lance Twitchell, Klingit, locality, and communication can shape our futures.

Azuni Lance Twitchell, Klingit, Haida, Upick, Sami, is a professor of Alaska Native

Languages at the University of Alaska Southeast.

He lives in Juneau with his wife and bilingual children.

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