In this episode, we are joined by guest co-host Colleen Billiot (Houma) to discuss the interview with Heather Bryan (Cherokee). This was one of the first interviews that we ever conducted when we began this project and have been anxiously awaiting when we could share it out with everyone. As with the previous guests in this third series, Heather shares their experience receiving and bearing traditional Cherokee tattoos as well as information regarding Cherokee and southeastern tattoos. Brit and Colleen discuss Heather's interview, revitalizing culture, climate change, tattoos, and more.
Colleen Billiot is a citizen of the United Houma Nation in southeast Louisiana. She co-founded and help run the Houma Language Project and revived a traditional gathering of my people a couple years back. Cultural reclamation and preservation tend to be her focus. She also teaches self-defense to women for free/low cost which she started doing due to the high rate of MMIW that she wrote on for a previous job.
Heather Bryan (Cherokee) was born and raised in Seminole lands aka South FL. They are an artist, herbalist and mama with a degree in Sociology and women’s studies from the University of Central Florida where they were also involved in student organizing and social justice activism.
You can find more information discussed in this episode and previous episodes on the Inchunwa instagram and the link tree link in the bio: instagram.com/inchunwa. Additionally if you'd like to help financially support the inchunwa project and podcast, you can become a patron: Patreon.com/inchunwa
Additional resources/links:
Heather:
@fury.of.femme https://www.instagram.com/fury.of.femme/
@ginnyandbets https://www.instagram.com/ginnyandbets/
ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (Dadiwonisi/We Will Speak)
@dadiwonisifilm https://www.instagram.com/dadiwonisifilm/
Colleen Billiot:
@curlynquirky https://www.instagram.com/curlynquirky/
Bvlblancha Collective:
@bvlbanchacollective https://www.instagram.com/bvlbanchacollective/?hl=en
https://www.bvlbanchacollective.com/
Tasso Time:
https://sites.google.com/view/tasso-gathering