In 2021, Farina King (Diné) and Sarah Newcomb (Tsimshian) started the podcast Native Circles to focus on Native American and Indigenous histories from Indigenous voices and lived experiences. In 2023, Davina Two Bears and Eva Bighorse joined Farina to co-host the podcast, talking each month with public intellectuals committed to working with and for Indigenous communities to share Indigenous stories.

Check out the podcast at https://nativecircles.buzzsprout.com and the official podcast website at https://nativecirclespodcast.com/

We were honored to be a recipient of the 2021-2022 Turning Points in History Grant from the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University. Thank you to the Lepage Center!

Follow Dr. King’s updates about the podcast on her blog!

About the Native Circles Team

Farina King, a citizen of the Navajo Nation as a Bilagáanaa dóó Diné woman, is the Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology and Culture and an associate professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of The Earth Memory Compass (2018), co-author of Returning Home (2021), and author of Diné dóó Gáamalii (2023).

Sarah Newcomb is Tsimshian of the First Nation from Metlakatla, Alaska. She works as a freelance editor, writer, and blogger. She has a Bachelors in English with a Focus in non-Fiction Creative Writing, an Associates in Communications, and a Minor in Philosophy. She currently lives in Dallas, Texas with her husband and four children.

Eva Bighorse, a citizen of the Cayuga Nation born for the Navajo Nation, is an Indigenous human development advocate with expertise in tribal healthcare relations. She has experience in strategic collaboration; working in multidisciplinary teams specializing in health care delivery and multi-stakeholder engagement; and serving children, youth, and adults living with disabilities in urban and rural areas, both on and off tribal land.

Davina Two Bears, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Arizona State University in the School for Human Evolution and Social Change. Before continuing her graduate studies, Davina worked for the Navajo Nation Archaeology Department as a Program Manager and a tribal archaeologist conducting cultural resources inventories on the western half of the Navajo reservation. Davina later graduated with her PhD in Anthropology from Indiana University with an emphasis in Archaeology and a PhD Minor in Native American and Indigenous Studies.