All My Relations Podcast
Episodes
When Food Is a Right, Not a Ration
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As SNAP benefits face new political threats, millions of families are being pushed deeper into food insecurity—including many of our Native relative...
Loud Indigenous Food with Pyet DeSpain
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this nourishing conversation, Matika and Temryss sit down with Pyet DeSpain (Prairie Band Potawatomi and Mexican), chef, entrepreneur, storyteller,...
An Eco-Erotics Worldview, Part 2
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re getting a little wild — in the best, most relational way. Temryss and Matika sit down with scholar and environmental educator Hai...
Getting Dirty: An Eco-Erotic Worldview
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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-erotic...
Writing Big Medicine: Author Talk with Sasha LaPointe
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 —...
Protect Native Women: A Conversation with Sarah Deer
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to say that rape is not a crime of passion, but a tool of conquest? In this searing episode, Matika sits down with Chief Justice Sar...
The Old Growth Table: Our Food Is Our Medicine
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are so proud to introduce our newest collaboration: The Old Growth Table, a brand new podcast hosted by Valerie Segrest (Muckleshoot), launching fr...
Native LAnd is Burning
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In early January 2025, catastrophic wildfires swept through the ancestral homelands of the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash Peoples. Natio...
ICE In Indian Country & The Power Of Kinship
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of All My Relations, Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Temryss Lane (Lummi Nation) are joined by Gina Amato Lough, Directing A...
Lovin’ Ourselves with Vina Brown
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Love Day, Relatives! While Valentine’s Day may be wrapped in candy hearts and Hallmark sentiments, its origins are far from sweet. As NPR’s ...
For the Love of Football: The Super Bowl, Indian Mascots, & the Violence of American Football 🏈
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today is the Super Bowl, and while millions gather to watch, we’re here to ask: What are we really watching? In this episode of All My Relations, Te...
The Right to Belong: Are Native Americans Sub-Citizens?
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of All My Relations, Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Temryss Lane (Lummi Nation)—sit down with Indigenous rights attorney ...
Sacred Promises: Truth and Treaty
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this deeply insightful episode, we are joined by Professor Robert A. Williams Jr. (Lumbee), a distinguished legal scholar and advocate for Indigeno...
Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Collective Rights & Responsibility
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Collective Rights & Responsibility features Dr. Tahu Kukutai (Māori) and Dr.Dr. Desi Small-Rodriguez (Northern Cheye...
Reproductive Justice: Birthing The Next 7 Generations
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reproductive Justice: Birthing The Next 7 GenerationsIn this episode, we sit down with Camie Jae Goldhammer (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyaté), BirthKeeper, R...
Indigenous AI: Revolution or Colonizer Bullsh*it?
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this thought-provoking episode, we sit down with Dr. Keolu Fox (Kanaka Maoli) to explore the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Reclaiming Thanksgiving: Honoring the Past, Nourishing the Future
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thanksgiving is often celebrated with gratitude and togetherness, but the story most of us know is rooted in myth and erasure. Recorded live at the ne...
Biden Apologized and the Women That Made It Happen
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode highlights the incredible Native women at the forefront of the efforts to bring about President Biden’s recent apology for the harm cau...
Sacred Manhood with Dallas Goldtooth
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🎉 We’re back! Season 5 kicks off with Sacred Manhood, featuring the unforgettable Dallas Goldtooth—actor, comedian, activist, and founding memb...
Supreme Court Affirms ICWA
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Big news! The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of leaving the Indian Child Welfare Act intact. This is a major victory for Indigenous rights and sover...
How We Made Indigenous Books
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Relatives!! It is with great joy that we have arrived to pub day!Today Matika's book "Project 562: Changing The Way We See Native America&qu...
Rematriate
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To rematriate is to return the sacred to the mother. Join us today as we talk about the collective work of Rematriation with Dr. Dian Million (Tanana ...
Native Women Are Funny
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Three incredible women, Sierra Ornales (Diné ), Jana Schmieding (Mniconjou and Sicangu Lakota) and Tazbah Rose Chavez (Nüümü, Diné and San Carl...
Telling True Stories in a Good Way
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As an Indigenous documentary filmmaker, what does it mean to tell true stories in a good, ethical way? How do we protect and respect our communities w...
Native Children Belong in Native Homes
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brooke Pepion Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish) and Kendra Potter (Lummi) join All My Relations for “Native Children Belong in Native Homes.” This heartfe...
Rez Doggin' with Ryan Redcorn and Sterlin Harjo
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sterlin Harjo (Muskogee/Seminole) and Ryan Redcorn (Osage), join All My Relations for a live podcast to discuss how Native representation in Hollywood...
Building Indigenous Futures
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode delves into higher education for Native students. While colleges and universities around the US are releasing land acknowledgements, the ...
Neaese Wado Tigwicid
30 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Adrienne took time away from All My Relations to focus on her academic obligations, Dr. Dr. Dez stepped into the co-hosting role with Matika. Sin...
Black and Native Futures: Liberation and Sovereignty with Nikkita Oliver
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All My Relations is proud to offer the third episode in our series on Afro-Indigenous topics, “Black & Native Futures: Liberation and Sovereignt...
Black Native Kinship with Amber Starks
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Matika Wilbur and Dr.Dr. Desi for part two in this series, “Black Native Kinship”, a powerful conversation with Afro-Indigenous activist Ambe...
Black Native History with Dr. Tiya Miles
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd and during the Black Lives Matter uprisings that followed, All My Relations started a journey to suppor...
The Border Crossed Us
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Border Crossed Us is led by Jon Ayon, an AMR team member who conducted field research to gather the stories of peoples and Tribes at the southern ...
The Ancestors Know You: Real Life Reconnection Stories
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are so excited to talk about the very highly requested topic: reconnection. So many of our relatives grew up with varying levels of kinship systems...
Lies Your Teacher Taught You: The Truth About Thanksgiving
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The Truth about Thanksgiving” is the first installment of a series we’re calling “Lies your teacher taught you”. In this episode we sit dow...
Sexy Sacred
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for an episode all about snaggin’! For part two of All My Loving Relations, we continue our conversation with the phenomenal Geraldine King,...
All My Loving Relations
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Love is something we all need, cherish, and desire in our lives. As Indigenous people we have always known that being in good relation with people, cr...
Protect Indigenous Women
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since the onset of colonization Indigenous women have experienced violence with reckless abandon, today it is a public health emergency. Traditionally...
Indigenous Motherhood: Birth Is Ceremony
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we explore our ceremonies related to birth and question what it means to rematriate through motherhood. What are our traditional birth...
Changing Seasons
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode marks the 12th and final episode of Season Two. What a wild, magical, beautiful and tragic year it has been— a season of dramatic chang...
Hawaiian Resistance, Tourism & Abolition: For The Love of The Mauna, Part 3
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please join us for the third and final piece of our series on the movement to protect Mauna Kea. We have been incredibly humbled and blessed to have r...
For The Love of The Mauna, Part 2
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is part two in our series For the Love of the Mauna which shares the story of Native Hawaiians’ effort to protect Mauna Kea. The first episode ...
For The Love of The Mauna, Part 1
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This special three part series is a story about land, culture, and connections to place—it's the story to protect Mauna Kea on the Island o...
ThanksTaking or ThanksGiving?
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode talks with Wampanoag scholars Paula Peters and Linda Coombs, who tell us the real story of Thanksgiving, from an Indigenous Perspective. ...
Vote (If You Want To & Can)
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day, and today is a good day to talk about how we can protect and uplift our communities. One way we can do that is ...
Indigenous Artist To Artist, Part 3: Who Decides?
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Matika and Adrienne In conversation with Jami Powell (Osage), Jaclyn Roessel (Diné) and Kristin Dorsey (Chickasaw), for the third and final epis...
Indigenous Artist To Artist, Part 2: We Choose Power
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome you into this intimate laughy conversation with three awesome full time artists--Photographer Ryan Redorn (Osage), painter Yatika Star Fiel...
Indigenous Artist to Artist (Part 1): Adapting To Pandemic & Daring to Dream
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mid-August every year is usually when Matika and Adrienne head out to New Mexico to get #SantaFancy, visit artist friends, and partake in all of the j...
Healing The Land IS Healing Ourselves
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a discussion with community organizer, citizen scientist, activist, water protector, entrepreneur, writer, gardener, and all around incred...
Whole Family Wellness
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a discussion with Well For Culture founders Thosh Collins (WhaZhaZi, Haudenosaunee and O’otham) and Chelsea Luger (Anishinaabe & Lak...
Growing New Beginnings
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we launch Season 2 of All My Relations: “Growing New Beginnings”! This episode was recorded around the new year when the world was functioni...
Bonus Episode: All Our (Socially Distanced) Relations
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This bonus episode explores the impacts of Covid-19 in tribal communities. Even though tribal nations are most at risk, Indigenous voices have been wi...
Love in the Time of Blood Quantum
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hundreds of years ago when colonizers instituted the idea of “blood quantum” as a means of reducing the Native population, our Native ancestors pr...
Bonus Episode: Celebrate Indigenous People's Day, Not Columbus
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The foundational narrative we teach our children about Columbus is rooted in myth and falsity. Instead of teaching our real Native American history, o...
Beyond Blood Quantum
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Blood quantum. The percentage of Native “blood” one possesses, the fraction listed on Certificates of Degree of Indian Blood, and a fraught concep...
Can Our Ancestors Hear Us?
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we tackle a huge topic: the importance and power of our Indigenous languages, and the work that's being done to revitalize and pr...
Native Fashion
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
All My Relations talks story with two of our favorite fashionable friends: artist extraordinaire Jamie Okuma (Lisueño and Shoshone Bannock) and schol...
Bonus Episode: Sacred is Sacred!
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bonus Episode: Sacred is Sacred! +In light of recent tragedy at Notre Dame, Adrienne and Matika discuss the indigenous response from our communities ...
Native Appropriations
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, All My Relations explores the topic of cultural appropriation—it’s become such a buzzword, but what is it, really? Adrienne and M...
Indigiqueer
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We join forces with two amazing Indigenous writers and scholars who are making waves in the literary scene with their poetry, prose, and fiction. They...
Decolonizing Sex
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a second discussion with Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Dr. Kim Tallbear on All My Relations. We'll explore Kim's “life project” of...
Can a DNA test make me Native American?
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Can a DNA test make me Native American? As direct-to-consumer ancestry DNA tests gain popularity and narratives of “discovering” or “proving” ...
Native Mascots: Really, Still?
02 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018 there are still over 2000 schools and professional sports teams with Native mascots, despite decades of activism and academic research demonst...
Food Sovereignty: A Growing Movement
02 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are you truly sovereign if you can’t feed yourselves? Today we delve into a topic we can all relate to! We all got to eat! But how are we eating, or...
Ep #1: All My Relations & Indigenous Feminism
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Matika and Adrienne discuss their “origin” stories as Indigenous women, bloggers, and storytellers— revealing the intimacies of their friendship...