All My Relations Podcast

When Food Is a Right, Not a Ration

As SNAP benefits face new political threats, millions of families are being pushed deeper into food insecurity—including many of our Native relatives whose communities already navigate the long-term impacts of colonization on food systems. In this special All My Relations + Old Growth Table podcast collaboration, Matika Wilbur and Temryss Lane sit down with Valerie Segrest (Muckleshoot), a leading Indigenous food systems expert and advocate, to unpack what these proposed cuts mean for Native nations and why food sovereignty is central to our collective survival. Together, they explore how federal policy shapes daily access to food, the ongoing fight to restore Indigenous foodways, and what it means to nourish our people when systems fail us. This episode also features on-the-ground field reports from Gray Fox Farm, Suquamish Seafoods, the Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA), and professional forager Chai Tobar-Dupres (Cowlitz), offering a rich, real-time look at the work happening across our communities to reclaim sustenance, land, and autonomy. This is a conversation about power, policy, kinship, and the future of how we feed one another. Resources/places to donate: www.unkitawa.org [https://www.unkitawa.org/] www.chiefseattleclub.org [https://www.chiefseattleclub.org/] www.feed7generations.org [https://www.feed7generations.org/] Businesses featured in the episode: suquamishseafoods.com [https://suquamishseafoods.com/] www.grayfoxfarmwa.com [https://www.grayfoxfarmwa.com/] nayapdx.org [https://nayapdx.org/] cowlitzforager [https://www.instagram.com/cowlitzforager/] ++++ Credits: Film Production by Francisco “Pancho” Sánchez PA Mandy Yeahpau Edited by Francisco “Pancho” Sánchez Produced by Matika Wilbur Co/hosted by Temryss Lane Social Media by Katharina Mei-Fa Brinschwitz Text us your thoughts! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/262196/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.paypal.me/amrpodcast] Follow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, [https://www.instagram.com/amrpodcast/] or support our work on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/allmyrelationspodcast]. Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667565/project-562-by-matika-wilbur/]! T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.

Loud Indigenous Food with Pyet DeSpain

In this nourishing conversation, Matika and Temryss sit down with Pyet DeSpain (Prairie Band Potawatomi and Mexican), chef, entrepreneur, storyteller, and the first-ever winner of Gordon Ramsay’s Next Level Chef. Fresh from finishing her debut cookbook, Rooted in Fire: A Celebration of Native American and Mexican Cooking, Pyet shares the streams that brought her to this monumental point in her career and together we explore the meaning of being rooted in fire: cooking with passion, with purpose, with seasonality, and with reverence for the land that feeds us.  Pyet reminds us that food is never just food — it is ceremony, resistance, community care, and lineage. It is how we remember who we are. With tenderness, she shares the deep spiritual work of reclaiming identity; the moments of grief and illumination that came with saying no to extractive opportunities; and the healing that arrives when we follow the recipes our grandmothers left for us in stories, memories, and the land itself. TW: This episode includes discussion of suicide. Please take care while listening. Filled with laughter, truth, plant medicine teachings, and the joy of returning to one’s roots, this conversation is for anyone longing to reconnect — to culture, to the land, to purpose, or to the fire within. So pull up a chair, relatives. This episode is fragrant with memory, alive with story, and served with the kind of warmth that lingers long after the last bite. ++++ Credits: A/V Production by Francisco “Pancho” Sánchez Edited by Mandy Yeahpau and Francisco “Pancho” Sánchez Produced by Matika Wilbur Co/hosted by Temryss Lane Social Media by Katharina Mei-Fa Brinschwitz Text us your thoughts! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/262196/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.paypal.me/amrpodcast] Follow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, [https://www.instagram.com/amrpodcast/] or support our work on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/allmyrelationspodcast]. Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667565/project-562-by-matika-wilbur/]! T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.

An Eco-Erotics Worldview, Part 2

This week, we’re getting a little wild — in the best, most relational way. Temryss and Matika sit down with scholar and environmental educator Hailey Maria Salazar, (Yoeme) for a playful, grounded, and deeply expanding conversation on eco-erotics: the sensual, intimate, curious ways we relate to land, water, plants, animals, wind, and all our more-than-human relatives. Building from last week’s convo with Dr. Melissa Nelson, we explore how Indigenous stories, teachings, and everyday practices hold erotic knowledge — not in the Western shame-laden sense, but as connection, aliveness, risk, pleasure, and belonging. From berry-picking teachings, sensual winds, and yes… the infamous earthworm story… we open up what it means to feel deeply with the world around us. This episode is fun, lighthearted, and full of laughter — but also a reminder that joy, intimacy, and pleasure are vital forms of resistance, especially in heavy political times. So take this moment with us to breathe, giggle, blush a little, and remember what it feels like to be connected. Settle in, relatives. The world of eco-erotics awaits. Text us your thoughts! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/262196/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.paypal.me/amrpodcast] Follow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, [https://www.instagram.com/amrpodcast/] or support our work on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/allmyrelationspodcast]. Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667565/project-562-by-matika-wilbur/]! T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.

Getting Dirty: An Eco-Erotic Worldview

Have you ever had a relationship with an inanimate object? Or been stirred by the scent of the forest or sound of birds? Are you practicing eco-eroticism and you don’t even know it? In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Melissa K. Nelson, Turtle Mountain Chippewa ecologist, scholar, and author of Getting Dirty: The Eco-Eroticism of Women in Indigenous Oral Literatures.  Together, we explore ecoerotics—a way of understanding and connecting with the world as kin, not as resource. With laughter and stories, this conversation brings forth Ancestral Intelligence (the true A.I.)–that reminds us of the power of our sensuality and intimacy with the world. There’s sacred activism brimming between skin and soil, driftwood and hand, breath and water. What awakens when we let ourselves get dirty—when we surrender ourselves and feel deeply with the land? Melissa reminds us that Indigenous remembering and sacred stories of our relationships with plant and animal kin aren’t just myths—they’re real relationships. Living, breathing, co-mingling connections filled with the depth and meaning that we imagine as an antidote to settler colonialism. Eco-eroticism is a doorway to our bodies and space. So get curious; it’s time to reenter kinship with all our relations. Text us your thoughts! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/262196/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.paypal.me/amrpodcast] Follow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, [https://www.instagram.com/amrpodcast/] or support our work on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/allmyrelationspodcast]. Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667565/project-562-by-matika-wilbur/]! T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.

Writing Big Medicine: Author Talk with Sasha LaPointe

We’re closing out this season of All My Relations with something new and something we’re deeply proud of: the launch of our Author Talk series — the first step in the All My Relations + NDN Girls Book Club. [https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/book-club] In this debut Author Talk, Matika and Temryss sit down with poet and memoirist Sasha LaPointe (Upper Skagit, Nooksack), whose work explores trauma, healing, punk rock, and the power of ancestral memory. Together, they dive into Sasha’s acclaimed books Red Paint and Thunder Song, weaving in stories of lineage, belonging, and the courage it takes to write the things we’re told not to say. This tender conversation is an intimate exploration of Sasha’s life as an author, where we deep dive into storytelling as a form of Indigenous resistance and remembrance, and the challenges of writing through trauma with clarity and care. Sasha reflects on what it means to be a prolific Indigenous woman author and, reveals the hidden histories beneath the tulip fields of the Skagit Valley, and shares how the stories of her ancestors—and sea maidens—still live in her writing and spirit. This episode is not only the season finale—this episode is big medicine, and it’s also an invitation. We hope you’ll read along with us, join our hybrid book discussions, and help us build a community that supports Indigenous authors. Sign up for the All My Relations Book Club at allmyrelationspodcast.com/book-club [https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/book-club] to get invites, books,  background materials, and access to our live events. Resources:  – Support Sasha’s books: Red Paint, Rose Quartz, and Thunder Song – Join the Book Club: allmyrelationspodcast.com/book-club [https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/book-club]– Support us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/allmyrelationspodcast/membership] to watch the full video version of this Author Talk – Learn more about NDN Girls Book Club [https://ndngirlsbookclub.org/] and the good work they’re doing to support Native authors and youth Love this episode? Text the link to a friend or tell your auntie. Text us your thoughts! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/262196/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.paypal.me/amrpodcast] Follow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, [https://www.instagram.com/amrpodcast/] or support our work on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/allmyrelationspodcast]. Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667565/project-562-by-matika-wilbur/]! T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.