Dr. Lyla June Johnston

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Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is an Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages.

Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective, and ecological healing. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions.

Her doctoral research explores how pre-colonial Indigenous Nations across Turtle Island—the lands we now call the Americas—actively shaped their environments to create sustainable, abundant and regenerative food systems for all forms of life. Her findings offer fresh, practical insight into regeneration and sustainability, rooted in respect for nature’s intricate relationships.

https://www.lylajune.com/