All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur, Desi Small-Rodriguez & Adrienne Keene
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All My Relations Podcast

Welcome! All My Relations is a podcast hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip), and Dr. Adrienne Keene (Cherokee 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. Supreme Court Affirms ICWA

    06/16/2023

    Supreme Court Affirms ICWA

    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 sovereignty. In this special episode, Matika is joined by Sedelta Oosahwee (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Cherokee) a Senior Program and Policy Analyst and Specialist at the National Education Association who was recently appointed by the Biden Administration to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education to discuss the ruling and what it m...

    14 min
  2. How We Made Indigenous Books

    04/25/2023

    How We Made Indigenous Books

    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" hits the shelves! To celebrate we want this very special celebratory episode of AMR to reflect on this massive milestone for both our co-hosts!.Join Matika and Adrienne, two published Indigenous authors, as they reflect on the roads they've traversed to get their works out into the world and what it means to share our stories in a good way. These books are...

    47 min
  3. Rematriate

    04/06/2023

    Rematriate

    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 Athabascan), Michelle Schenandoah (Oneida Nation) and Marquel Musgrave (Nanbe Owingeh). In this episode, we acknowledge that rematriation IS the work of decolonization; we talk through Indigenous Feminism, Sky Woman, and we even make the connections between Ruth Bater Ginsberg and The Doctrine of Discovery.Dr. Dian Million, is Tanana Athabascan,...

    1h 2m
  4. Native Women Are Funny

    03/22/2023

    Native Women Are Funny

    Three incredible women, Sierra Ornales (Diné ), Jana Schmieding (Mniconjou and Sicangu Lakota) and Tazbah Rose Chavez (Nüümü, Diné and San Carlos Apache tribes) join All My Relations to talk about the comedy scene, sisterhood and above all else— laughter as a way of life. These are the the women that brought us Rutherford Falls, and you may have also seen Jana in Reservation Dogs, but these amazing women have been working in television for years. We feel very lucky to be in conversation...

    41 min
  5. Telling True Stories in a Good Way

    03/16/2023

    Telling True Stories in a Good Way

    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 while sharing our stories with broader audiences? How do our teachings inform our storytelling? On our newest episode we talk with Cherokee Nation filmmaker Brit Hensel about her work as a visual storyteller and her responsibilities to community. As part of our third episode in our series of live recordings from Santa Monica College, w...

    35 min
  6. Native Children Belong in Native Homes

    03/08/2023

    Native Children Belong in Native Homes

    Brooke Pepion Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish) and Kendra Potter (Lummi) join All My Relations for “Native Children Belong in Native Homes.” This heartfelt, vulnerable and raw story is centered around their film, “Daughter of A Lost Bird”, which follows Kendra, an adult Native adoptee, as she reconnects with her birth family, discovers her Lummi heritage, and confronts issues of her own identity. Her singular story echoes many affected by the Indian Child Welfare Act and the Indian Adoption Project....

    53 min
  7. Rez Doggin' with Ryan Redcorn and Sterlin Harjo

    03/01/2023

    Rez Doggin' with Ryan Redcorn and Sterlin Harjo

    Sterlin Harjo (Muskogee/Seminole) and Ryan Redcorn (Osage), join All My Relations for a live podcast to discuss how Native representation in Hollywood can be done right (or Rez-dogged). The conversation is packed with giggles, the importance of sharing opportunities with your community, the power of creating all Native spaces in entertainment and the journey from the 1491s to now.The tone of this episode is slightly different than some of our more narrative episodes, mostly because...

    58 min
  8. Building Indigenous Futures

    02/22/2023

    Building Indigenous Futures

    This episode delves into higher education for Native students. While colleges and universities around the US are releasing land acknowledgements, the Indigenous students who come from these lands make up only 1% of college students nationally. We know college can be a source of power and strength for our communities, but we also know the experiences of Native students in college can be difficult and heartbreaking. If higher education in predominantly white, colonial, western institutions is p...

    52 min
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Welcome! All My Relations is a podcast hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip), and Dr. Adrienne Keene (Cherokee 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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  • Creator
    Matika Wilbur, Desi Small-Rodriguez & Adrienne Keene
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2023
  • Episodes
    45
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2023 All My Relations Podcast
  • Show Website
    All My Relations Podcast

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