Whole Family Wellness

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

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Join us for a discussion with Well For Culture founders Thosh Collins (WhaZhaZi, Haudenosaunee and O’otham) and Chelsea Luger (Anishinaabe & Lakota) as we discuss Whole Family Wellness. We cover an indigenous approach to prenatal, baby, postpartum, fatherhood, and a whole family approach to wellness. They study and implement lifestyle teachings of indigenous ancestors, while incorporating new information to contribute to ancient and ongoing chains of knowledge. Indigenous culture has always been dynamic, and wellness is an inherent aspect. Their good words help us to feel grounded amidst this time of pandemic, and we hope you will find comfort in their teachings as well.

Well For Culture is is a grassroots initiative which aims to reclaim and revitalize Indigenous health and wellness, they say on their website, “Well For Culture promotes holistically well lifestyles. We believe in mind-body optimization through The Seven Circles Of Wellness. Much like a ceremony, a song, a story, or an activist movement, Well For Culture Is at once a space, a place, a group of people and an evolving idea.”

This work is supported by the National Geographic Society’s Emergency Fund for Journalists. The Wisteria Fund, and our incredible Patreon subscribers.

Special Thanks to Max Levin and Teo Shantz for our music, Ciara Sana for episode art, and Teo Elisio for doing all the things.

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0:00.0	Hello friends and relatives welcome back to another episode of all my relations. We're so happy you're here.
0:07.5	Hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Hello. Hello. We have a really great episode for you
0:14.6	today. We're talking with Thosch Collins and Chelsea Luger of the Well for Culture initiative.
0:22.7	They are two of our friends and colleagues who we have known for a long time in different areas of
0:30.8	their life. And we recorded this episode a few months ago back when Matika was still pregnant. So it
0:37.9	was a really amazing opportunity to talk with them about the work that they do in thinking about
0:44.1	wellness from a really kind of holistic perspective and indigenous perspective and how that takes into
0:51.5	account what we eat, how we move our bodies, what we think about especially during the time of
0:58.5	life that Matika was in and that Chelsea had been in not long before her. So we were
1:07.0	bonus double excited because we knew we had this episode coming and a couple of weeks ago in
1:12.8	the New York Times there was an article about food movements in Indian country. And it featured
1:21.6	some really beautiful photographs of Thosch and Chelsea and their daughter Aloe and talked to them
1:27.5	a little bit about the work they do. So we thought that could be a really great entry point into our
1:33.3	conversation thinking that many people might have encountered their work recently in the New
1:38.8	York Times. But then Matika and I started actually reading the article. And the article did
1:48.4	what we always see, which is that it reinforced that poverty-poorn narrative. And it framed native
1:56.6	people from this perspective that put them in a place of danger, of survivalism, of extinction.
2:06.9	I think it's essentially another extinction narrative almost. And so I'd be really interested
2:12.4	a Drian in wondering how you might frame that if you were going to let's say write the article for
2:18.4	the New York Times. Well, okay. So I am someone in my education research world. I think a lot about
2:28.0	what we call deficit framing. And it's something that you see a lot in research about quote-unquote
2:35.3	marginalized communities about native students in particular, where our communities, our students,
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