Randy Kritkausky is an enrolled tribal member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. He is a founder of ECOLOGIA, an international environmental organization that works on the planet’s more extreme challenges, and formerly professor at Keystone College, research scholar at Middlebury College, and Erasmus Mundus Scholar at the Central European University in Budapest and Lund University in Sweden. He is author of Without Reservation: Awakening to Native American Spirituality and the Ways of Our Ancestors. His website is https://www.randykritkausky.com/.

Here he shares his experience of growing up in an American middle-class environment with little awareness of his Native American heritage. A series of events, including the death of his Native American mother catalyzed within him a direct apprehension of the ways in which nature was communicating with him. The discussion focuses on the plight of millions of Native Americans who are disconnected from their own heritage.

(Recorded on September 11, 2020)

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Published on October 14, 2020