Joshua Whitehead, a Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1), is a poet, author and essayist. His prose has been described as evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical. In this episode Elizabeth Howard reads from his essays in "Making Love With the Land" (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) as he reflects and illuminates the current moment in which both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are rediscovering old ways and creating new ones about connection with and responsibility toward each other and the land. He writes of his devotion to the world in which we live and brilliantly—even joyfully—maps his experience on the land that has shaped stories, histories, and bodies from time immemorial.