When Food Is a Right, Not a Ration

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

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

5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

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 ...

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0:00.0	Hello, relatives. Welcome back to All My Relations and Old Growth Table.
0:08.1	Hey, hey. I'm Antica Wilbur. I'm from Swinamish and Talleylup. I'm a mama of two beautiful girls.
0:16.5	I'm a wifie. I'm the co-host of all my relations and the executive producer of Old Growth Table.
0:23.2	I'm a photographer. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a storyteller. I do all these things, but really
0:28.2	talking story, getting to be in community and be here with you two fine ladies is really
0:34.1	one of the highlights of my life. Truly.
0:38.5	Hi, everyone.
0:39.9	My name's Tamara Slane, Chilitia, from Lamy Nation.
0:43.4	I am a co-host with Matika on All My Relations.
0:47.0	I am a mother of two little boys and communication strategist at Pyramid Communications.
0:53.8	I'm an ex-professional athlete and sports broadcaster,
0:58.2	but really at the core, a storyteller.
1:01.3	So really happy to be here telling the stories or sharing stories that matter.
1:06.1	Welcome to the show, ladies.
1:07.4	I'm so excited to sit with you again.
1:09.6	I think we did this in the first episode,
1:10.9	so it feels real full circle for me. My name is Valerie Seagrest. I'm a muckle shud tribal member,
1:16.7	a native foods nutritionist, a mom of two wild little girls. We all love to forage and harvest
1:23.6	and make medicines together. We're better people when we're outside. So we like to be
1:28.1	outdoors as much as possible. And yeah, it's such an honor to have this conversation with both
1:33.1	of you today because it's like you just, we stoke the fire. And really there's a lot to talk about
1:39.2	when it comes to what's going on in the world. It's totally related like old growth table, being a place to learn how to harvest traditional
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