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Relentless Indigenous Woman Podcast

Relentless Indigenous Woman

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Frequency: 1 episode/18d. Total Eps: 52

Welcome to the Relentless Indigenous Woman podcast—a space for uncensored and unapologetic conversations on the lived realities of Indigenous Peoples.

Hosted by Dr. Candace Manitopyes, a proud Moose Cree First Nation educator, advocate, and scholar, this podcast invites you to listen, grow, and take meaningful action.

With a community of over 750,000 followers across social media, Dr. Manitopyes has become a powerful voice in bold Indigenous education, truth-telling, and solidarity.

Here, education becomes rebellion. Resistance. Revolution.

Whether you are an Indigenous listener or an ally committed to learning, this podcast exists to challenge, inspire, and empower.

www.relentlessindigenouswoman.ca

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Ep. 38: The Pedagogy of Moss: Lessons in Fluidity, Belonging, and Resilience with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer

Saturday, November 15, 2025 • Duration 54:58

Dr. Candace Manitopyes sits down with the beloved scientist, writer, and matriarch Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss. They weave a dialogue on remembrance, resistance, and relationality, where Indigenous knowledge and scientific thought meet in the shared soil of hope.

Dr. Kimmerer reflects on her newest movement, Plant Baby Plant, which calls people to resist extraction by restoring reciprocity through regeneration. She and Candace speak candidly about despair, joy as an act of resistance, and the necessity of holding “two buckets”(one for grief, one for goodness) at once.

Their exchange moves through moss, language, and the sacred act of remembering. They explore how moss teaches us gender fluidity, adaptability, and queerness, and how Indigenous languages reveal a world where everything (water, trees, even a bay) is alive and in motion. They consider what it means to unlearn colonial rigidity, to delight in being wrong, and to find flexibility through humility and curiosity.

This episode feels like an offering of hope in a time of dismemberment. It reminds us that the revolution begins with the choice to create, nurture, and remember our membership in the living world.

Relentless Reflections

What parts of yourself, your culture, or your relationship with the land have been “dismembered”? Reflect on what remembering might look like for you, not just recalling, but rejoining the living web that has always held you.
When was the last time you allowed yourself to be wrong, and what did it reveal? Consider what humility makes possible. How could embracing the delight of being wrong expand your capacity for relationship, creativity, or solidarity?

Relentless Actions

Begin your own “Plant Baby Plant” practice. Whether it’s tending herbs on a windowsill, planting seeds with children, or volunteering in a community garden, ground your resistance in regeneration.
Practice language as ceremony. Choose one phrase or word from your language (or the local Indigenous language where you live) that reminds you the world is alive. Speak it aloud. Let it rewire how you see everything around you.

Relentless Resources

PlantBabyPlant.com – A growing movement co-founded by Dr. Kimmerer that transforms resistance into regeneration through the act of planting and caring for the Earth.
The Pedagogy of Moss - The award-nominated PhD dissertation of Dr. Candace

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Ep. 37: The Queer Wedding and the Revolution

Saturday, November 8, 2025 • Duration 48:22

In this deeply personal episode, Dr. Candace Manitopyes returns to the Relentless Indigenous Woman Podcast with honesty, gratitude, and renewal.

She shares the story of her wedding to her sweetheart, Alex Manitopyes, a ceremony rooted in intimacy, cedar medicine, and Cree traditions. She reflects on how love, rest, and joy have reshaped her relationship with activism, creativity, and resistance.

After stepping away from social media during their honeymoon, Candace speaks candidly about what it means to reclaim energy in an age of constant reaction. She unpacks how consumption often replaces creation, and how sustainable resistance begins with choosing to build, not just respond. Through reflections on fascism, education as rebellion, and the importance of channeling rage into regeneration, she invites listeners to pause, reflect, and discover their own gifts to offer the world.

Candace also shares exciting news about the new season of the podcast, featuring conversations with brilliant Indigenous voices—including Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Kent Monkman, Tanya Talaga, Ma-Nee Chacaby, and many more. She introduces her re-imagined Relentless Indigenous Woman Patreon community as a space for collective learning, reciprocity, and transformation.

This episode feels like a breath of fresh air. A reminder that rest us part of resistance, and that the revolution begins in how we care for ourselves and each other.

Relentless Reflections

Where is your energy going, toward reaction or regeneration?
What gift has Creator placed in you that the world needs right now?

Relentless Actions

Set digital boundaries to reclaim your creative energy. Try a 1-hour timer on social media this week. Notice how it feels to consume less and create more, whether that’s journaling, finding a new hobby, making art, teaching, or resting intentionally.
Take one feeling (anger, grief, or hope) and channel it into something tangible. Write a poem, support a mutual aid fund, plant seeds, teach a friend about decolonial solidarity, etc. Transmute what overwhelms you into what sustains you.

Ep. 28: Sport, Survival, and Spirit: How Waneek Horn-Miller Turned Pain Into Power

Saturday, August 2, 2025 • Duration 34:56

In this heart-expanding chat, Dr. Candace Linklater sits down in person with Waneek Horn-Miller—Mohawk Olympian, activist, and one of the most influential Indigenous women in sport—for a conversation that is as vulnerable as it is visionary. They explore the complicated beauty of Indigenous rage, healing, and authenticity in a world that constantly tries to box Indigenous women in. Waneek reflects on surviving a near-fatal stabbing during the Oka Crisis at age 14 and how that trauma shaped her sense of power, purpose, and protection.

She shares how sport became the container for her rage, and how ceremony, self-reflection, and motherhood helped her alchemize that fire into compassion. The two discuss how kindness has nothing to do with being polite and everything to do with being loyal to what is just—even if it makes others uncomfortable. They unpack how rage, when left unexpressed, can mutate into internalized harm, and how ceremony must hold space for all emotions—not just grief and peace, but fury too.

Waneek speaks candidly about navigating traditional and Christian expectations, including the pressure to wear ribbon skirts, and how she has always stood a little outside of dominant narratives—even within her own community. Both women share how their relationships to dress, identity, and spirituality have been shaped by purity culture, lateral violence, and a deep hunger for autonomy. They discuss love as a verb rooted in action, accountability, and deep presence. For Waneek, true love doesn’t hurt—it sees, uplifts, and creates peace. Through their shared reflections on creation, ceremony, and connection, this conversation becomes a living testament to Indigenous self-determination, feminine power, and the right to take up space with both tenderness and rage.

@waneek

www.waneekhornmiller.com

Relentless Reflection

Where in your life have you been taught to silence your rage, and what would it look like to honour it instead?
What does kindness mean to you when it’s rooted in justice, not politeness, and how do you extend that same kindness inward?

Relentless Actions

Ep. 27: Honouring the Sacredness of Two-Spirit Lives with Chance Paupanakis

Saturday, July 26, 2025 • Duration 44:45

Dr. Candace has some deep convos with Chance Paupanakis, a proud Swampy Cree and Two-Spirit advocate from Kinosew Sipi Cree Nation. Raised in both Indigenous and colonial worlds, Chance shares what it means to come into identity while carrying the weight of silence, shame, and survival—and how they’ve chosen to root instead in language, ceremony, and community.

Their conversation moves through themes that cut deep: the erasure of Two-Spirit roles, the harm of conditional allyship, and the ongoing impact of colonialism on cultural and spiritual life. But it’s also full of hope. Chance speaks to the sacredness of Two-Spirit existence and the strength that comes from reconnecting to land, kin, and self. For any Two-Spirit youth searching for belonging, or anyone wanting to listen more deeply, this conversation is a reminder: you are sacred, you are loved, and you are never alone.

Bio

Chance comes from the Kinosew Sipi Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory and currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is a proud Swampy Cree and 2Spirit person who embraces his Cree language and queer identity.

Chance has western education in Political Studies and Indigenous Studies from the University of Manitoba. Chance focuses his advocacy around Indigenous language revitalization, youth empowerment, land & water protection, Indigenous student rights and 2SLGBTQQIA+ resurgence.

He began his healing journey five years ago and has been learning from many knowledgeable mentors from his home community and beyond. Chance currently works as a Consultant and Independent Contractor for numerous organizations throughout Manitoba.

IG: @copperandfloral

Relentless Reflection

Where in my life do I prioritize comfort over truth?
Whose humanity do I still require to prove themself before I stand with them?

Relentless Actions

Gender binaries are colonial fictions. If you’re defending them in your policy, parenting, or pedagogy, you’re defending a system built to disappear us. Dismantle it.

Ep. 26: Fashion as Medicine: A Conversation with Lindsay King

Saturday, July 19, 2025 • Duration 44:21

In this episode, Dr. Candace Linklater sits with Lindsay King, an Indigenous fashion designer from the Salto Ojibwe and Mohawk Nations, whose journey from social work to fashion is rooted in healing, advocacy, and community care. After working as a social worker and foster parent for 20 years, Lindsay began designing in 2014—without any sewing experience—and went on to study fashion in Toronto and Florence before launching her brand in 2022.

Their conversation explores how Lindsay’s work is inspired by her grandchildren, the strength of Indigenous entrepreneurship, and her commitment to sustainable, ethical fashion. Lindsay shares how creativity became part of her healing journey, leading to powerful work like her Red Collection showcased at Toronto Fashion Week, which raises awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and relatives. She opens up about her philosophy of visualization, her dedication to protecting children, and the importance of creating space for Indigenous representation in the fashion world.

From designing a Cher-inspired leather pant and vest for Tia Wood at the Junos to being named an Indigenous designer to watch by OWL Magazine, Lindsay’s story is one of courage, transformation, and staying rooted in love and purpose.

Bio

Meet Lindsay King is a Saulteaux, Ojibway, and Mohawk fashion designer and registered member of Little Grand Rapids First Nation in Treaty 5 territory.

Born in Winnipeg and raised between her parents’ communities in Manitoba and Ontario—with time spent in Texas and Nevada—Lindsay is a proud Mother, Grandmother, Social Worker, and creative force in Indigenous fashion. For over 20 years, she dedicated her life to serving Indigenous children and families as a Social Worker and foster parent, all while quietly holding on to a childhood dream: to one day own a store and design clothes.

In 2014, she took a courageous leap, enrolling in fashion programs in Toronto and Florence with no prior sewing experience. Since launching her brand in 2022, Lindsay has grown a line of timeless, luxury garments and curated accessories that reflect care, community, and cultural pride.

Her recent Red Collection, shown at Toronto Fashion Week, honours and brings awareness to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people—centering the power of visibility and truth on the runway. Working with artisans and suppliers across North America, her designs are stories of resilience, representation, and reclaiming space in an industry that once felt out of reach.

Ep. 25: Andre Bear’s Journey Through Law and Love

Saturday, July 12, 2025 • Duration 47:48

This episode goes deep. Dr. Candace sits down with Andre Bear, a Two-Spirit Nehiyaw Plains Cree educator and legal scholar who’s been using social media to make conversations about Indigenous rights and sovereignty feel both accessible and deeply personal. They explore Andre’s powerful journey—from growing up in foster care to reconnecting with ceremony—and how those experiences continue to shape his fierce advocacy for Indigenous children and youth.

Andre shares the story behind carrying a Cubone Pokémon toy into important meetings as a way to honour his inner child, a small yet profound act of remembrance and strength. The conversation also goes into the complexities of navigating Two-Spirit identity in Indigenous spaces, the ongoing process of spiritual growth, and the kind of healing that can only come through unconditional love.

Dr. Candace creates space for a conversation that’s raw, moving, and full of heart. Andre’s voice is a testament to what it means to break cycles, reclaim story, and lead with love. His work reminds us that advocacy is care, courage, and connection in action.

Bio

André Bear is a Nêhîyaw (Plains Cree) educator, advocate, and legal scholar committed to advancing Inherent and Treaty rights. He holds a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Saskatchewan and was awarded a full-ride scholarship in 2023 to pursue his Master of Laws.

At just 21, André was appointed as a special advisor to the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations for the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Call to Action 66. He has served on the board of the Indigenous Bar Association and currently sits on the board of the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society.

In 2021, André founded Indigenous Nation Rebuilding, a consulting firm focused on revitalizing Indigenous law-making and supporting Nation-led governance. Beyond boardrooms and classrooms, André uses TikTok as a powerful educational tool, breaking down complex legal and political issues in accessible, engaging ways for a new generation of learners. His work bridges tradition and innovation, law and community, all in service of Indigenous sovereignty and truth.

IG and TikTok: @abearlaw

Ep. 24: Under the Spotlight and Inside the Heart with Anna Lambe

Saturday, July 5, 2025 • Duration 45:09

This podcast episode is a deeply candid conversation between two Indigenous women who hold space for each other in a way that’s both tender and powerful. Anna Lambe—Inuk actress from Iqaluit and the breakout star of North of North—joins Dr. Candace Linklater for an intimate dialogue that weaves together personal stories, professional reflections, and shared truths from the front lines of Indigenous visibility.

Anna opens up about the realities of navigating the entertainment industry as a young Inuk woman, speaking honestly about everything from the highs of success to the quiet, unseen struggles—like dealing with adult acne in the public eye, reclaiming self-love, and managing the pressures of fame. Together, they explore the nuanced dynamics of relationships, the unspoken griefs carried in Indigenous womanhood, and the electric, transformative force of feminine rage.

What unfolds is a soul-level conversation between two women who understand what it means to carry their communities, face the weight of representation, and still show up with humour, softness, and strength. From laughter to raw vulnerability, this episode feels like sitting in on a sacred kitchen table talk—one that reminds us of the power of Indigenous connection, storytelling, and truth.

Bio

Anna Lambe is the lead in CBC’s hit series North of North, which premiered with a rare 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and named Rolling Stone’s Top 10 Shows of 2025. An Inuk actress from Iqaluit, Nunavut, Anna first broke out in the 2018 film The Grizzlies, earning a Canadian Screen Award nomination at just 18. Since then, she’s starred in Trickster, appeared in HBO’s True Detective, and become a rising force in Indigenous storytelling.

Off screen, Anna is a fierce advocate for her people. In 2020, she made headlines with an open letter challenging anti-Two-Spirit rhetoric in Nunavut’s legislature—showing the country that young Inuit voices are powerful and uncompromising.

Whether on screen or in real life, Anna Lambe is reclaiming narrative, defending truth, and shifting the landscape of representation.

IG: @anna.r.b.lambe

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Ep. 23: Sacred Rage & Queer Truth: Jayli Wolf on Healing Through Music

Saturday, June 28, 2025 • Duration 50:48

In an unfiltered conversation, Jayli Wolf and I demolish the toxic religious trauma from our Jehovah's Witness and evangelical backgrounds. We expose how these belief systems systematically stripped us of autonomy, sexuality, and indigenous spiritual connections, leaving behind a toxic landscape of shame, fear, and suppressed rage. From forced door-to-door preaching to suffocating purity culture, we unpack how these institutions control and silence young women, especially those who are queer and indigenous.

Our dialogue transforms into a fierce declaration of reclamation. Through art, music, feminine rage, and radical self-love, we're actively dismantling these oppressive internalized narratives. Jayli's music becomes a powerful outlet for healing, transforming pain into sound that challenges colonial and religious systems. We celebrate questioning everything, trusting our intuition, and creating space for our full, messy, beautiful selves - a defiant love letter to our younger, silenced versions.

Jayli’s Bio

Jayli Wolf is a Saulteau First Nation musician, sound weaver, poet, actress, and filmmaker whose art is a portal to healing, reclamation, and truth. Her solo breakout single Child of the Government—a visceral anthem about the Sixties Scoop—garnered national acclaim, including a spot on CBC Music’s Top 10 Canadian Songs of 2021 and a Best Music Video award at the Venice Short Film Awards.Raised in a trailer park and told she was half-Mexican, Jayli didn’t learn about her First Nations roots until age eight, when her father—an unwitting survivor of the Sixties Scoop—reached out. Her journey of reconnection with her culture, identity, and Spirit now pulses through everything she creates.

A former Jehovah’s Witness, Jayli left what she calls a Doomsday cult to pursue music and self-liberation. Today, her critically acclaimed EP Wild Whisper and her roles in films like Run Woman Run continue to showcase her depth and unapologetic voice. Nominated for multiple JUNO and film awards, Jayli alchemizes revelation into sound, crafting work that elevates the soul and invites collective healing.

www.jayliwolf.com

IG & TikTok: @jayliwolf

Ep. 22: Jeremy Dutcher on Blood Memory, Music & Mother Tongues

Saturday, June 21, 2025 • Duration 51:27

In this raw and real podcast episode, Jeremy Dutcher drops truth bombs about Indigenous language revitalization, Two-Spirit identity, and cultural resilience. He shares his journey of recovering Ancestral recordings, transforming colonial archives into powerful musical narratives, and creating space for indigenous joy. Dutcher embodies resistance through his music, academic work, and fierce commitment to honouring his community's linguistic and cultural roots.

The conversation cuts deep into the complexities of settler colonialism, queer Indigenous experiences, and the revolutionary act of simply existing and thriving. Dutcher dismantles oppressive narratives with humor, vulnerability, and a relentless belief in Indigenous power. From discussing his mother's groundbreaking language immersion school to challenging binary thinking about gender and time, he presents a vision of indigenous futures that are simultaneously healing, provocative, and absolutely unstoppable. To put it simply, this episode is a manifesto of Indigenous badassery and our ability to alchemize pain into beauty–like music.

Jeremy’s Bio

Jeremy Dutcher is a Two-Spirit Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) tenor, composer, musicologist, and activist from Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick. Classically trained in Western opera, Jeremy merges that discipline with the traditional songs and language of his ancestors—breathing life into archival recordings and bringing them into the present.

His debut album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa won both the Polaris Music Prize and a JUNO Award, and his follow-up project Motewolonuwok made history when he became the first artist to win the Polaris Prize twice. A fierce advocate for Indigenous language revitalization, cultural resurgence, and queer Indigenous joy, Jeremy’s work is medicine, reclamation, and revolution.

Jeremy was recently honoured with the 2025 National Arts Centre Award from the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards, joining his growing list of accolades, including a JUNO and two Polaris Prize wins.

IG: @jdutchermusic

www.jeremydutcher.com

Ep. 21: Scott & Mama Wabano: Real Love, Real Rank, Real Power

Saturday, June 14, 2025 • Duration 57:08

This podcast episode is basically a love letter to indigenous resilience, told through the epic mother-child duo of Virginia and Scott Wabano. Scott's a queer, Two-Spirit fashion icon who went from being a tiny hoop dancer to slaying runways and challenging industry norms. His mom, Virginia, is the ultimate badass matriarch who's been his ride-or-die since day one.

They dive deep into Scott's journey of self-discovery, coming out on a random highway (because why not?), and how his family's love eclipsed potential rejection. Virginia's been dropping truth bombs since the 80s, from residential school testimonies to supporting her son's fabulous life.

The conversation is a middle finger to colonial expectations. Scott's using fashion as activism, Virginia's preserving cultural traditions, and together they're showing the world that indigenous folks are complex, powerful, and absolutely not going anywhere.

Their Bios

Scott Wabano is an award-winning Fashion Stylist and designer, Creative Director and Content Creator, and co-host of the iconic Real Rank Podcast with his bestie, Kairyn Potts.

A 2Spirit Cree from the Mushkegowuk & Eeyou Istchee territories on the James Bay coast, Scott grew up with a strong admiration for traditional and mainstream fashion and a passion for bringing authentic Indigenous representation to the industry. Scott often incorporates traditional storytelling with modern and digital concepts within fashion to advocate for the lives of Indigenous and 2SLGBTQ+ peoples.

With features in Vogue, Forbes 30 Under 30 for Toronto,, ELLE, FASHION, The National Post & more, Scott has become an advocate for sustainable and Indigenous fashion while also advocating for the rights of Indigenous 2SLGBTQ+ youth on Turtle Island.

Virginia Wabano is from the Moose Cree First Nation, and a passionate advocate for Indigenous rights within government, bringing both fierce determination and an open heart to every space she enters.

She holds diplomas in Business Administration and Child and Families, along with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education degree. Known for speaking her truth with clarity and compassion and mixing in some Native humor, Virginia combines deep wisdom with an unshakable commitment to her People in various capacities from government to school.. She recently appeared on Family Feud Canada alongside her children—including Scott—where her hilarious sense of humor and radiant warmth shone through, capturing the hearts of viewers across the country.IG & TikTok: @scottwabano

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