Change Everything, Feed Your People

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

Society & Culture, Relationships, Society, Indigenous, Contemporary Native American Culture, Documentary, Native, Native American, Pop Culture

5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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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 resou...

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0:00.0	Before we begin today's conversation with Sean Sherman, we want to say a big thank you to the 250 of you who have already signed up for the All My Relations and Indian Girls Book Club. Thank you for reading with us. Most of you should have already gotten your book, A Thunder Song by Sasha LaPoint by now, but if for some reason your book has not
0:23.6	arrived, email us at All My Relations Podcast at gmail.com and we'll help you to get that
0:31.3	sorted out. For every copy of books purchased through us, we are going to donate to Indian
0:37.4	Girls Book Club, helping to place
0:39.3	free books into the hands of young native readers across Turtle Island. Our first book club
0:45.4	gathering is coming up soon. We'll be meeting Sunday, January 25th, at 10 a.m., both in person
0:53.0	here at Tidelands in Seattle, and we're going to have coffee and donuts.
0:59.7	It's also going to be on Zoom. So if you can't make it in person, you know, it's okay. This is our inaugural
1:06.1	community book club discussion. It's a space to reflect, to listen, to share, and to be in conversation together. And after our book club discussion. It's a space to reflect, to listen, to share, and to be in conversation
1:13.0	together. And after our book club discussion, we'll also be hosting a special in-person live
1:18.6	conversation with Sasha LaPoint at Tidelands, going deeper into the stories, the questions,
1:24.8	and the teachings with Thunder Song.
1:27.9	So come and hang out with us, relatives.
1:31.6	All right.
1:32.7	On to the show.
1:53.0	Okay. In Lashitzid, we say to Bhakti Aishad, like acknowledging all our relatives.
1:56.5	I wonder if you guys could just talk a bit about what that means to you. You know, for me, like, I've always seen the deep connection to indigenous diversity everywhere um because
2:02.8	when i started my path and realized um what i wanted to do with indigenous foods it came from
2:08.6	me just like taking some time and living in me and trying to figure out next steps but connecting
2:13.6	with some of the indigenous community down there um just, you know, having a revelation of
2:19.0	what I needed to do in the north, you know, which was figure out like what were the foods of my
2:23.9	ancestry and why were they missing. So I've never seen just Native Americans as as the situation. It's
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