Dan Wahpepah is from the Anishinabe, Kickapoo and Sac & Fox tribes. He grew up with his community’s cultural ways and has been politically active with the American Indian Movement and spiritually active through tribal ceremonies. Dan started the Rogue Valley Pow Wow, an American Indian Cultural Center, Red Earth Descendants and is also a board member of Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance and Rogue Climate, Pipeline Fighters. As part of his tradition, he is a Drum Keeper and Drum Chief. Dan’s efforts are focused on the preservation of this Earth for future generations. He is the world's first Native permaculture certified instructor. 

First Nations Radio is a radioshow put on by Dan every week highlighting where we are as a society, how we got here, and what we can do about it. He builds community and interviews many different guests from local elected officials, nonprofit leaders, and friends. With every episode, he offers that we each 1) Decolonize
2) Reindigenize, and 3) Naturalize. 

Dan says, “Permaculture combined with Traditional Ecological Knowledge is a powerful pairing.  To contribute to life is what we need to feel. We are moving into a giveaway society. The best way for us to train for this new paradigm is to garden. By gardening, we contribute to life while gaining a harvest, feeding pollinators, sequestering carbon, feeding sugars and carbon to the billions of microbes and miles upon miles of mycorrhiza, connecting to community for excess giveaway, connecting with the seasons, connecting.”