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All My Relations Podcast

56 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 2.9K ratings

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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Episodes

Can a DNA test make me Native American?

March 12, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour - 32.5 MB

Can a DNA test make me Native American? As direct-to-consumer ancestry DNA tests gain popularity and narratives of “discovering” or “proving” Native American ancestry through DNA swirl through the media—what does that mean for Indigenous nations?  On this episode we talk with the amazing, badass, super cool Dr. Kim Tallbear (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), who literally wrote the book on Native American DNA. We talk about the concept of “Native DNA,” the problems of ancestry DNA tests, challenges...

Native Mascots: Really, Still?

March 02, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 33.7 MB

In 2018 there are still over 2000 schools and professional sports teams with Native mascots, despite decades of activism and academic research demonstrating the harms of these images. Today Matika and Adrienne are in conversation with Amanda Blackhorse, Navajo social worker and mother, who was the lead plaintiff in the supreme court case against the Washington Redsk*ns, and Stephanie Fryberg, who is the top psychological researcher on these issues and has demonstrated through lab experiments...

Ep #3: Native Mascots: Really, Still?

March 02, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 33.7 MB

In 2018 there are still over 2000 schools and professional sports teams with Native mascots, despite decades of activism and academic research demonstrating the harms of these images. Today Matika and Adrienne are in conversation with Amanda Blackhorse, Navajo social worker and mother, who was the lead plaintiff in the supreme court case against the Washington Redsk*ns, and Stephanie Fryberg, who is the top psychological researcher on these issues and has demonstrated through lab experiments...

Ep #2: Food Sovereignty: A Growing Movement

March 02, 2019 08:00 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MB

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 better, WHAT are we eating?  And how has colonization disrupted our relationship with our traditional foods?  That is why today’s discussion on food sovereignty is so important because we all know that colonialism destroyed our food systems, sometimes on purpose and sometimes as a byproduct of other colonial policies— But separating Native peop...

Food Sovereignty: A Growing Movement

March 02, 2019 08:00 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MB

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 better, WHAT are we eating?  And how has colonization disrupted our relationship with our traditional foods?  That is why today’s discussion on food sovereignty is so important because we all know that colonialism destroyed our food systems, sometimes on purpose and sometimes as a byproduct of other colonial policies— But separating Native peop...

Ep #1: All My Relations & Indigenous Feminism

February 26, 2019 08:00 - 50 minutes - 23.1 MB

Matika and Adrienne discuss their “origin” stories as Indigenous women, bloggers, and storytellers— revealing the intimacies of their friendship, the inception and goals of the All My Relations Podcast, and their relationships to feminism. Support the Show. Follow us on Instagam @amrpodcast, or support our work on Patreon. Show notes are published on our website, amrpodcast.com. Matika's book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America is available now! T'igwicid and Wado for being...

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