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:

www.unkitawa.org

www.chiefseattleclub.org

www.feed7generations.org

Businesses featured in the episode:

suquamishseafoods.com

www.grayfoxfarmwa.com

nayapdx.org

cowlitzforager

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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

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