Yá’át’ééh (Hello!)Welcome to Real Native Roots: Untold Stories—a podcast rooted in the power and medicine of storytelling. I’m Vickie Oldman, a proud Diné woman, and your host on this journey through the lived experiences of our relatives—family, friends, and colleagues—whose stories carry the wisdom, humor, and truth that often go untold.In our Native ways, stories are more than words—they are teachers, time travelers, and truth holders. They carry our values, our resilience, and our dreams. Each episode, we’ll sit with remarkable guests to uncover the lessons, memories, and moments that shaped them—and the medicine they carry for all of us.So, I invite you to walk this path with me. Listen deeply. Laugh, reflect, and reconnect. Follow and subscribe as we share the voices of our people—voices that deserve to be heard and honored.Come along—there’s a story waiting for you. 🌿🎙✨
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Episode #66
Language Is Sacred: Reclaiming Identity with Elton Naswood
Aug 18, 20261h 16m
What does it mean to reclaim who we are while creating space for others to do the same? In this episode of Real Native Roots: Untold Stories, Vickie reconnects with longtime friend and fellow Window Rock High School alum Elton Naswood, a Diné advocate, storyteller, leader, and Executive Director of the Two-Spirit and Native LGBTQ+ Center for Equity. Nearly four decades after their school days on the Navajo Nation, Elton shares the people and experiences that shaped him, from the love and teachings of his grandparents and mother to the loss of his brother and the unexpected path that led him into decades of advocacy. Together, Vickie and Elton explore Two-Spirit identity and responsibility, the sacredness of Indigenous language, resilience, belonging, and the importance of reclaiming our place in the circle. And, of course, we meet Eartha Quake, Elton’s fabulous drag persona who brings culture, storytelling, advocacy, and plenty of laughter to another stage. At its heart, this is a conversation between two old friends about who shaped us, who we’re becoming, and how we use our lived experiences to help others. Because our stories carry lessons. Our stories carry medicine. Poem featured in this episode: “Ownership” by Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons, from Wisdom Lessons. #RealNativeRoots #EltonNaswood #TwoSpiritCenter #NativeLGBTQ #IndigenousVoices
<p >In this episode of Real Native Roots: Untold Stories, I sit down with Delano Saluskin (Shii) of the Yakama Nation, a respected leader whose nearly 80 years of life and more than five decades of service have been dedicated to his people, culture, and community. Together, we explore his journey from a childhood shaped by hardship and resilience to becoming a bridge builder, Tribal Chairman, advocate for economic sovereignty, and protector of land, water, and language. Along the way, Delano shares lessons on leadership, sobriety, family, faith, and what it means to think beyond ourselves to the generations yet unborn.<...
<p>In this deeply heartfelt episode of Real Native Roots: Untold Stories, Vickie sits down with her dear friend, business partner, and “sister soul,” Barbara Roloff, for a conversation about identity, belonging, flowers, healing, and what it means to truly bloom later in life. 🌻</p>
<p>Barbara shares her journey growing up in a beautifully multicultural adoptive family, reconnecting with her Native Hawaiian roots, meeting her birth family as an adult, and discovering the many places that became “home” throughout her life. Together, Vickie and Barbara reflect on love, resilience, slowing down, community care, aging with intention, and the powerful lessons flo...
<p>In this episode of Real Native Roots: Untold Stories, Vickie sits down with Ameerah Suina Thomas, a 27-year-old Afro-Indigenous woman of Laguna Pueblo and West African descent whose voice carries both clarity and fire.</p>
<p>Together, they explore what it means to be fully present in your body, how culture lives through everyday practices, and why food, music, language, and movement are not just traditions—they are medicine.</p>
<p>Ameerah shares how her mother and Pueblo upbringing shaped her humility and strength, while her father instilled voice, joy, and the courage to live fully. She speaks honestly ab...
<p>2025 Story Recap with Tara Denetsosie-Lovato. In our first episode of 2026, Tara joins me to reflect on the voices, lessons, and medicine shared by our 2025 guests — from sovereignty and leadership to land, language, and coming home.</p>
<p>We revisit the wisdom of artists, activists, aunties, and culture bearers who reminded us that culture is living, leadership is relational, and hope is a practice.</p>
<p>Tara also shares something deeply personal: her lifelong relationship with horses.</p>
<p>She reminds us that horses are medicine.<br>
That they mirror our truth.<br>
That if we rush, they rush. If we...
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