The Piikani Lodge Story (Part 2 with Kim Paul): Founding Piikani Lodge, big shifts & an invitation

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Last week's episode featured a special on-location recording with Amskapi Piikani Blackfeet elder, and founder of the Piikani Lodge Health Institute, Long Time Charging Woman Kim Paul. Again, given it was two and a half hours in length, I also wanted to offer it in distinct parts, for those of you who prefer to listen to it that way.

In this case, two parts presented themselves neatly. Part one was released earlier this week. And part two here extends from the big shifts Kim sees happening, through to the serendipitous and unlikely story of how Piikani Lodge came to be, along with an invitation to all.

Weaved through all that is a brilliant new program for youth, the place of animals, hunting meat in their culture, the huge Powwow, hopes for co-management of Glacier National Park, recovering Piikani names, more transformational tales, including a pivotal workshop with Robin Wall Kimmerer, the drive for the next infrastructure to leverage positive change, culture as (preventative) medicine, and visits to some of the places Kim holds most dear, here on spectacular Blackfeet Country in current day northern Montana.

If you’d prefer to listen to the whole episode straight, head to ‘Culture as Medicine: Long Time Charging Woman Kim Paul at Amskapi Piikani Blackfeet Nation’.

Otherwise, I hope you enjoy this. And thanks for listening.

Chapter markers & transcript.

Recorded 10 July 2025.

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Chapters

1. Lakes, smudge, and sacred places (00:00:00)

2. Youth on the land: winter program (00:01:19)

3. Feeding bodies, funding gear, building belonging (00:02:40)

4. Seasons, survival skills, and traditional games (00:03:35)

5. Reverence in the hunt and ceremony (00:05:40)

6. Glaciers receding and big societal shifts (00:08:00)

7. Powwow week and cultural celebration (00:10:05)

8. Co‑management hopes and treaty rights (00:11:10)

9. Serviceberry lore and cultural teachers (00:13:45)

10. Books that change us: Kimmerer and Wolf/Dog (00:16:05)

11. Exclusion from park profits and youth suicide (00:17:35)

12. Regenerative ranching and processing vision (00:19:10)

13. COVID shock: food sovereignty and protection (00:22:00)

14. Piikani Lodge origin and Culture as Medicine (00:24:00)

15. Gratitude, supporters, and what comes next (00:26:20)

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