All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

Welcome! All My Relations is a podcast hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip), and Temryss Lane (Lummi Nation) to explore our relationships— relationships to land, to our creatural relatives, and to one another.  Each episode invites guests to delve into a different topic facing Native American peoples today. We keep it real, play some games, laugh a lot, and even cry sometimes. We invite you to join us!

  1. From Standing Rock to Minnesota: Indigenous Resistance and ICE

    4D AGO

    From Standing Rock to Minnesota: Indigenous Resistance and ICE

    For the first episode of this special guest-hosted series, Dallas Goldtooth welcomes Mark K. Tilsen Jr. a poet, educator, and longtime organizer from Pine Ridge whose work is rooted in resistance and liberation. Dallas and Mark reflect on their shared experiences at the Standing Rock protests, marking a decade since thousands of Indigenous water protectors gathered to defend land, water, and sovereignty against the Dakota Access Pipeline. What came out of that effort was not only the largest gathering of Natives fighting against a pipeline, but a living blueprint for Indigenous resistance in modern times.  From that foundation, Mark brings us into the present moment, sharing updates from the Twin Cities following the recent ICE surge—an operation that deployed thousands of federal agents, sparked widespread protests, and disrupted communities across Minneapolis and St. Paul. Together, they explore how the lessons of Standing Rock continue to shape Indigenous resistance today—from frontline organizing to community care. This conversation centers the power of collective action, the importance of showing up for one another, and what it means to build toward liberation in the face of ongoing state violence. +++ Produced by Matika Wilbur --@matikawilbur A/V Production & Editing: Pancho Sánchez -- @videosdelsancho Scoring: Mato Wayuhi -- @matowayuhi Episode Artwork: Kitana Connelly @creatortwahna Social Media: Mandy Yeahpau @dontguacbloc Text us your thoughts! Support the show Follow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, or support our work on Patreon.  Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now!  T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.

    1h 5m
  2. Dallas Takes The Mic

    APR 22

    Dallas Takes The Mic

    We’ve got something special to share with you, relatives! For the next few episodes of All My Relations, we’re handing the mic over to comedian, writer, organizer, and actor Dallas Goldtooth (Mdewakanton Dakota/Diné) for a guest-hosted takeover bringing his voice, humor, and perspective into the conversations we hold here.  Dallas is a good relative and longtime friend of the podcast. You’ve likely seen Dallas Goldtooth in his role as William “Spirit” Knifeman on Reservation Dogs (2021-2023), and many roles since on Seeds (2024), Fallout (2024-2026), and The Last Frontier (2025). His work lives at the intersection of storytelling, environmental justice, and Indigenous rights with a refreshing touch of humor mixed with hard truths. This guest series is something we’ve been excited about for a while. Dallas brings a different kind of energy into the space, one that feels caring, thoughtful, and at times unexpectedly funny.  These conversations move across lived experience, movement work, leadership, and community care, all rooted in what it means to be in relationship with one another. Dallas sits down with a powerful lineup of voices: Mark K. Tilsen (Oglala Lakota) — poet, educator, and organizer from Pine Ridge, whose work is deeply connected to resistance and liberation movements. He joins Dallas for the first episode of the series.Ashley LaMont (Oglala & Sicangu Lakota) — working at the forefront of land back and sovereignty movements with Honor the Earth.Theresa Sheldon (Tulalip Tribes) — serving on the Tulalip Tribes Board of Directors, bringing insight into leadership and governance at the tribal level.Sedelta Oosahwee (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Cherokee) — leading national work in education policy and advancing equity for Native students.Thosh Collins (O’Odham  & Osage) — photographer, health educator, and co-founder of Well For Culture, sharing teachings on Indigenous wellness through the Seven Circles framework.And in a couple of especially meaningful conversations, Dallas sits down with his own family—his mother, Hope Ann Two Hearts, and his sister, Georgina Drapeau—bringing a personal layer to this series that we’re honored to share with you. As always, our intention remains the same: to hold space for conversations that help us better understand what it means to be in good relation with each other, with our communities, and with the world around us. The first episode drops soon. +++ A/V Production & Editing: Francisco Sánchez @videosdelsancho Music: Mato Wayuhi @matowayuhi Produced by: Matika Wilbur @matikawilbur Episode Artwork: Kitana Connelly @creatortwahna Social Media: Mandy Yeahpau @dontguacbloc Text us your thoughts! Support the show Follow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, or support our work on Patreon.  Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now!  T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.

    17 min
  3. The Sound of Mato with Mato Wayuhi

    MAR 24

    The Sound of Mato with Mato Wayuhi

    All My Relations, sits down with Oglala Lakota artist Mato Wayuhi for a conversation that moves through sound and story. Mato is known for composing the music behind the award-winning series Reservation Dogs and stepping into a new acting role in The Lowdown, Mato breaks down how he builds story across mediums, from studio to the screen. Mato being selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 marks his growing impact on Indigenous representation in film and music. Matika and Temryss get into Mato’s musical evolution from early projects like Stone Cold Lover and Indians in the Cupboard to Stankface and the Rez Dogs Theme, Mato takes us through the journey of his sound. He shares insight into his latest album Bygoner and its lead single “Leftovers” (2025), along with his work on the Free Leonard Peltier soundtrack (2025), grounding his artistry in both personal expression and political commitment. Throughout the episode, Mato speaks on his creative process, the responsibility he carries as a Lakota artist, and the intention behind every beat, score, and performance.  Featuring compositions from Mato's growing discography and deep conversation, come with us into Mato’s world—where sound becomes expression, resistance, and connection. +++++++ A/V Production/Video Edit by Francisco “Pancho” Sánchez @videosdelsancho Music by Mato Wayuhi @matowayuhi Produced by Matika Wilbur @matikawilbur Episode Artwork by Kitana Marie @creatortwahna Social Media by Mandy Yeahpau @dontguacbloc Text us your thoughts! Support the show Follow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, or support our work on Patreon.  Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now!  T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.

    1h 16m
  4. Theory of Water: World-Making with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

    MAR 11

    Theory of Water: World-Making with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

    What can we learn from water? In this live conversation from Tidelands in Seattle, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, musician, and scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson joins All My Relations to discuss her new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, our second selection for the All My Relations Book Club. Leanne invites us to listen to water as both teacher and theorist, “Water changes forms from a solid to a liquid to a gas. It expands our understanding of time. It always escapes the container, and it connects us all.” Instead of centering land as the primary orientation point, she turns to water to imagine how we might build beyond the limits of the present. Together we explore grief, creation stories, Indigenous resurgence, and the difficult work of world-making in a time shaped by colonialism, racial capitalism, and ecological crisis. As Leanne reminds us, “Listening to water and thinking through world making means that we have to collaborate with each other… building against this present moment. That’s a struggle, but it’s a relational struggle to give birth to something different.” At its heart, this conversation asks what it means to create futures rooted in Indigenous intelligence, care, and responsibility—and what water might already be teaching us about how to begin. A/V Production by Francisco “Pancho” Sánchez @videosdelsancho Music by Mato Wayuhi @matowayuhi Produced by Matika Wilbur @matikawilbur Episode Artwork by Kitana Marie @creatortwahna Video Edit/Social Media by Mandy Yeahpau @dontguacbloc Text us your thoughts! Support the show Follow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, or support our work on Patreon.  Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now!  T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.

    45 min
  5. Creation Histories

    JAN 28

    Creation Histories

    Do you know the true narratives that shape the people, animals and lands of the Coast Salish People? This episode of All My Relations explores Lushootseed creation histories as living knowledge. These stories anchor us in the past, guide us through the present, and prepare us for an uncertain future. Host Matika Wilbur (Swinomish & Tulalip) leads the conversation through the origin story of the new exhibition, Coast Salish Creation Stories, opening at Tidelands, and shares why this moment calls all of us to learn from Indigenous knowledge and come experience the show. As elders teach, “make yourself still and engage your five teachers.” With that invitation, we sit with Puyallup Tribal Language Director Amber Hayward (Puyallup and Salish) and Tidelands Assistant Curator Ashley Frantz (Makah). Amber traces how colonizers recorded Lushootseed creation histories in English, often stripping them of meaning, and how today’s language revitalization movement restores their depth, power, and accuracy. Through her teachings, we learn why these stories matter, how to listen in a good way, and what it sounds like when creation history lives in Lushootseed itself. Ashley joins the conversation to share how artists and language keepers co-created the exhibition with the Puyallup Language Department and eight other Tribal Lushootseed language departments (and Lummi), bringing creation histories into visual form through contemporary Indigenous art. The exhibition opens February 7th at 6 PM. All are welcome to the opening reception and to experience the show through July 2026. Tidelands Gallery welcomes visitors Wednesday through Sunday, 11 AM–5 PM, with full step-free access throughout the space. We can’t wait to see you, relatives. ++++ Resources Creation Stories Exhibition Opening Reception: https://www.thisistidelands.com/event-details/creation-stories-exhibition-opening-reception The Puyallup Language Program https://www.puyalluptriballanguage.org/ptlp/  +++ Credits: A/V Production by Francisco “Pancho” Sánchez Music by Mato Wayuhi Produced by Matika Wilbur Episode Artwork by Katana Sol Text us your thoughts! Support the show Follow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, or support our work on Patreon.  Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now!  T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.

    48 min
  6. Lessons from Trickster: Story, Humor and Survival

    JAN 21

    Lessons from Trickster: Story, Humor and Survival

    What does it mean to survive—and who carries the story afterward? When writer and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat talks about survival, he does not begin with abstraction. He begins with a story. On this episode of All My Relations, Julian joins us to discuss his new book, We Survived the Night, a father–son narrative shaped in the tradition of a Coyote story—layered, funny, painful, and exacting in its truths. The book traces Julian’s relationship with his father through ancestral structure rather than Western memoir form. Coyote appears not as metaphor but as guide: a trickster forefather who teaches through contradiction, humor, and refusal. Julian describes dark Indigenous humor as a survival strategy honed over generations and carried forward through oral tradition. Throughout the conversation, Julian challenges the language often used to contain Indigenous knowledge. These stories are not myths or folklore. They live and change, told differently depending on who listens, who tells them, and what the moment requires. Multiple truths coexist within them, held in relationship rather than resolved into a single meaning. Indigenous languages, Julian explains, do more than preserve these teachings—they shape how knowledge moves through the world. That insistence on truth also shapes Julian’s filmmaking. The episode turns to Sugarcane, his award-winning documentary co-directed with Emily Kassie, which investigates the legacy of St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School. The film refuses easy closure, instead asking what responsibility looks like after harm, and how survivors and descendants carry grief alongside love. Across writing and film, Julian returns to the same question: how Indigenous people endure without flattening pain into spectacle. Basket Lady and Coyote emerge not as figures of the past but as living teachers—offering guidance for a present still shaped by trickster energy, rupture, and repair. These stories survived attempted erasure. They survived the night. May the stories of Basket Lady and Coyote live on. ++++ Resources: Purchase We Survived the Night today: https://shoptidelands.com/products/books-rooted-in-fire-copy?_pos=1&_psq=We+Survived+the+Night&_ss=e&_v=1.0  Watch Sugarcane on Disney+ and Hulu National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition: https://boardingschoolhealing.org/ Tribal Boarding School Toolkit for Healing: https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ana/NPAIHB_Thrive_BoardinSchoolToolkit.pdf Text us your thoughts! Support the show Follow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, or support our work on Patreon.  Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now!  T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.

    34 min
  7. Change Everything, Feed Your People

    JAN 13

    Change Everything, Feed Your People

    What happens when food becomes a blueprint for liberation? On this episode of All My Relations, we’re joined by Chef Sean Sherman (Oglala Lakota) and journalist/co-author Kate Nelson (Tlingit) to talk about Turtle Island—a cookbook, a history lesson, and a future-facing manifesto for Indigenous food sovereignty. We get into what it means to remove colonial borders (and colonial ingredients), why Indigenous foodways are global and relational, and how Sean’s nonprofit model is moving real resources back into Indigenous communities—from Native producers to Native jobs. Along the way: moose stew, fir tips, colonized palates, seed keepers, Buffalo Bird Woman’s garden, and a clear-eyed conversation about ICE, labor, and who actually feeds this country. Food is the entry point—but sovereignty is the goal. Just change everything. Feed your people. ++++ Resources Purchase Turtle Island Today:  https://shoptidelands.com/products/books-whereas-copy?variant=47505083924728  To learn about Sean’s work and North American Traditional Food Systems https://natifs.org/  https://seansherman.com/   Kate’s Work: https://www.kateanelson.com/  Esquire Article: https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/restaurants/a36474711/chef-sean-sherman-owamni-indigenous-minneapolis-restaurant-profile/  Text us your thoughts! Support the show Follow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, or support our work on Patreon.  Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now!  T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.

    55 min
  8. When Food Is a Right, Not a Ration

    12/10/2025

    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 www.chiefseattleclub.org www.feed7generations.org Businesses featured in the episode: suquamishseafoods.com www.grayfoxfarmwa.com nayapdx.org 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! Support the show Follow us on Instagram @amrpodcast, or support our work on Patreon.  Show notes are published on our website, Allmyrelationspodcast.com. Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now!  T'igwicid and Hyshqe for being on this journey with us.

    52 min
4.9
out of 5
3,011 Ratings

About

Welcome! All My Relations is a podcast hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip), and Temryss Lane (Lummi Nation) to explore our relationships— relationships to land, to our creatural relatives, and to one another.  Each episode invites guests to delve into a different topic facing Native American peoples today. We keep it real, play some games, laugh a lot, and even cry sometimes. We invite you to join us!

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