Episode 7: Abigail Echo-Hawk

The first episode of Season 2 features the remarkable Abigail Echo-Hawk, an international leader in Indigenous public health research and the decolonization of data. A member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, Echo-Hawk is the Executive Vice President at Seattle Indian Health Board and the Director of the Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI).

In this episode, Echo-Hawk speaks with Sofia Locklear about how her influential work on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls was inspired by a dream.

Read more about UIHI’s data reports that detail the scope of violence against Indigenous women and people across the United States.

Season 2 of Guardians of Sleep is written and hosted by Sharon Sliwinski and edited by Erin MacIndoe Sproule, Mikayla Gallo, and Victoria Li, with music by Andrew Braun.

Generous support was provided by the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western University, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.