When Food Is a Right, Not a Ration

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 nations and why food sovereignty is central to our collective survival. Together, they explore how federal policy shapes daily access to food, the ongoing fight to restore Indigenous foodways, and what it means to nourish our people when systems fail us. This episode also features on-the-ground field reports from Gray Fox Farm, Suquamish Seafoods, the Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA), and professional forager Chai Tobar-Dupres (Cowlitz), offering a rich, real-time look at the work happening across our communities to reclaim sustenance, land, and autonomy. This is a conversation about power, policy, kinship, and the future of how we feed one another. Resources/places to donate: Businesses featured in the episode: suquamishseafoods.com nayapdx.org cowlitzforager ++++ Credits: Film Production by Francisco “Pancho” Sánchez PA Mandy Yeahpau Edited by Francisco “Pancho” Sánchez Produced by Matika Wilbur Co/hosted by Temryss Lane Social Media by Katharina Mei-Fa Brinschwitz Text us your thoughts! Support the show

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When Food Is a Right, Not a Ration is an episode from All My Relations Podcast by Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane.

This episode is 51:54 long.

This episode was published on Dec 10, 2025.

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