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, Arikar

How We Made Indigenous Books

Apr 25th, 2023 47m 7s

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 ma

Rematriate

Apr 6th, 2023 1h 1m

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 thi

Native Women Are Funny

Mar 22nd, 2023 40m 59s

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 els

Telling True Stories in a Good Way

Mar 16th, 2023 35m 22s

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?

Native Children Belong in Native Homes

Mar 8th, 2023 53m 17s

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 follo

Rez Doggin' with Ryan Redcorn and Sterlin Harjo

Mar 1st, 2023 57m 38s

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

Building Indigenous Futures

Feb 22nd, 2023 52m 4s

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.

Neaese Wado Tigwicid

Jul 30th, 2022 27m 11s

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. Since then, we have had some great conversation, laughs, and cries with our favorite data warrior

Black and Native Futures: Liberation and Sovereignty with Nikkita Oliver

Jun 10th, 2022 48m 34s

All My Relations is proud to offer the third episode in our series on Afro-Indigenous topics, “Black & Native Futures: Liberation and Sovereignty”, a conversation with Nikkita Oliver, hosted by Matika Wilbur and Dr. Dr. Desi. Nikkita is a schol

Black Native Kinship with Amber Starks

1 Apr 15th, 2022 46m 53s

Join Matika Wilbur and Dr.Dr. Desi for part two in this series, “Black Native Kinship”, a powerful conversation with Afro-Indigenous activist Amber Starks. Amber is a Black woman and enrolled member of the Miscogee (Creek) Nation. Her activism

Black Native History with Dr. Tiya Miles

1 Mar 18th, 2022 50m

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 support the Black community and Afro Indigenous relatives through having conversations on police bru

The Border Crossed Us

1 Jan 14th, 2022 1h 5m

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 settler colonial border between the United States and Mexico. This political border was drawn

The Ancestors Know You: Real Life Reconnection Stories

Dec 18th, 2021 1h 40m

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, and it is so important to not blame oneself for little connection. After 500 years of coloni

Lies Your Teacher Taught You: The Truth About Thanksgiving

Nov 26th, 2021 19m 57s

“The Truth about Thanksgiving” is the first installment of a series we’re calling “Lies your teacher taught you”. In this episode we sit down with Matika and her 13-year-old nephew to teach about the true history of European and Native contact.

The Border Crossed Us

Nov 24th, 2021 1h 13m

The Border Crossed Us, is led by Jon Ayon, an AMR intern turned team member, that conducted field research to gather the stories of peoples and Tribes at the southern settler colonial border of the United States and Mexico. This political borde

Sexy Sacred

Oct 26th, 2021 37m 34s

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, and bring in comedian Deanna Diaz (aka Dianna M.A.D.). Join us as we embark on a teepee creepin

All My Loving Relations

May 17th, 2021 1h 16m

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, creatures, and the land is integral to wellbeing. Western science is just catching up to discove

Protect Indigenous Women

May 5th, 2021 1h 36m

Since the onset of colonization Indigenous women have experienced violence with reckless abandon, today it is a public health emergency. Traditionally, many of our Native societies are matrilineal but settler colonialism has disrupted our tradi

Protect Indigenous Women

May 5th, 2021

Indigenous Motherhood: Birth Is Ceremony

Apr 1st, 2021 1h 2m

In this episode we explore our ceremonies related to birth and question what it means to rematriate through motherhood. What are our traditional birthing ceremonies? What about our coming of age ceremonies? How do we reclaim our sexualities? Ho

Changing Seasons

Mar 17th, 2021 49m 6s

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 change: personally, professionally, spiritually, and as we say in the episode “you are allowed to fee

Hawaiian Resistance, Tourism & Abolition: For The Love of The Mauna, Part 3

Jan 29th, 2021 51m 7s

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 reported on the movement, and are so grateful to everyone who made this possible. During the pa

For The Love of The Mauna, Part 2

Dec 31st, 2020 49m 25s

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 gave us the background and story of the beginning of the TMT fight and the cultural foundations

For The Love of The Mauna, Part 1

Dec 10th, 2020 46m 11s

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 of Hawaii. Kanaka Maoli people have been fighting to stop the construction of the thirty meter telescope