ORIGIN STORY
All My Relations is a podcast dedicated to exploring what it means to be a contemporary Native person. To be Indigenous is to be in relationship—to land, to ancestors, to non-human kin, and to one another. This podcast is a space to honor and investigate those relationships, and to think deeply about Indigeneity in all its complexity.
Now in our fifth season, with over 4 million downloads, All My Relations is hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Temryss Lane (Lummi Nation). Together, they welcome guests from across Native America to dive into vital topics shaping Native life today—whether it’s sovereignty, sex, climate justice, fashion, or identity. We laugh, we cry, we get real—and we hope you’ll come with us on this journey.
All My Relations began with co-hosts Matika Wilbur, Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation), and later Desi Small-Rodriguez (Northern Cheyenne and Chicana), all of whom shared a desire to make Indigenous voices more accessible in mainstream media. Too often, Native stories are erased or reduced to harmful stereotypes. This podcast is a space to center Indigenous brilliance, joy, and resistance—and to engage in meaningful conversations that reflect our lived realities.
All My Relations is for everyone:
→ For Native folks to hear ourselves reflected, to feel seen and celebrated, and to grapple with the complexities of our identities and communities.
→ And for non-Native listeners to listen, learn, and grow in respectful relation with Indigenous peoples.
Across our seasons, we’ve been honored to speak with guests like Kim TallBear, Jessica Metcalfe, Stephanie Fryberg, Deborah Parker, Valerie Segrest, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Joshua Whitehead, and so many more.
Come be in relation with us.
WHAT WE DO
At All My Relations, a podcast that started in 2019, we explore what it means to be a Native person in the here and now.
To be an Indigenous person is to be engaged in relationships—relationships to land and place, to a people, to non-human relatives, and to one another. All My Relations is a place to explore those relationships, and to think through Indigeneity in all its complexities.
GET TO KNOW US
MATIKA WILBUR
Podcast Founder & Co-Host
Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) is a renowned visual storyteller, podcaster, and changemaker. She is the founder of Project 562, a decade-long artistic and cultural journey to photograph and share the stories of Native people from every federally recognized Tribe in the United States. To date, she has visited over 400 Tribal Nations in all 50 states, creating a dynamic visual narrative of contemporary Indigenous life.
In 2023, Matika published her debut book, Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America, which became a New York Times Bestseller and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal. That same year, she released an educational curriculum with the National Education Association, A Visual Learning Guide to: Transform. Indigenize. Decolonize., now in use in over 200 classrooms nationwide.
Matika is also the co-host of the award-winning podcast All My Relations, which invites guests to explore Indigenous relationships to land, relatives, and each other. The podcast has been downloaded more than 3 million times and is at the forefront of Native storytelling in audio journalism.
A former K–12 educator and graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography, Matika has presented at over 300 institutions including TED, Harvard, Yale, and Google. She recently made her directorial debut with the film One Small Thing, which is currently touring international film festivals.
In 2024, she launched Tidelands, a Native-owned gallery, podcast incubator, and cultural hub in Seattle that supports Indigenous artists and creatives. She now lives with her husband and two young children in Tulalip, where she continues to create, mother, and dream of a liberated future for Native peoples.
TEMRYSS XELI'TIA LANE
Podcast Co-Host
Temryss Xeli'tia Lane (Lummi Nation) is a communicator, athlete, and movement builder from the Golden Eagle Clan of the Coast Salish Lummi people in Washington State. She is the co-host of All My Relations, where she brings her sharp mind and full heart to conversations that explore what it means to be in good relation—with land, culture, and each other.
Temryss currently serves as Vice President of Indian Country at Pyramid Communications, a Seattle-based strategic firm where she partners with Tribes and Native organizations to uplift Indigenous leadership and storytelling. She also serves on the board of Chief Seattle Club and is a Nike N7 Ambassador, amplifying Indigenous visibility in wellness and sport.
A former Division I defender at Arizona State University, Temryss went on to play professionally and semi-professionally in Sweden and the U.S., including time with Balinge IF (Damallsvenskan), Ajax of America, and the California Storm. Her career in sport took her across the globe—from the Pacific Islands to Africa to the Caribbean—eventually leading to a role as a sports broadcaster for Fox Sports, Bein Sports, MLS, and Pac-12 Networks.
Temryss holds a Master’s degree in American Indian Studies from UCLA, where her work focused on Indigenous identity, sovereignty, and embodiment. A self-described student of the body, she often speaks about culturally rooted pathways to wellness in Native communities—lifting up solutions that are ancestral, athletic, and grounded in collective care.
She lives in Seattle with her sons, where she continues to build bridges between media, wellness, and Indigenous self-determination.
Previous Co-Hosts
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Adrienne Keene
Podcast Co-Founder & Co-Host
Adrienne Keene is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, originally from southern California, and now lives on the East Coast. She writes on the Internet about representations of Native peoples in popular culture, and has been writing her blog Native Appropriations since 2010. In her academic life she researches and writes about Native students in the college process. In her free time she makes Cherokee style baskets out of contemporary materials, beads, and reads a lot of speculative fiction.
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Desi Small-Rodriguez
Podcast Co-Host
A proud rez girl from Lame Deer, Montana, Desi is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and Chicana. She was born and raised on Cheyenne homelands where real and imagined reservation borders cross everyone. Desi is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has partnered with Indigenous communities in the U.S. and internationally as a researcher and data advocate for more than ten years.
The AMR Crew
Director of Photography, Audio/Visual and Production
Panchó Sánchez has been documenting the struggles and victories in his community and around the world. Francisco has worked directly in organizing and documenting grassroots struggles across the US, fighting for justice for lives stolen by the police and the prison industrial complex as well as Indigenous peoples as remote as the amazon rainforest fighting for their lives and sovereignty. Francisco creates paths between community storytelling, the news industry and commercial film, cutting cell phone footage and other miscellaneous media for front line communities fighting for autonomy, while pushing the boundaries of long format storytelling and winning Emmys with groundbreaking journalism.
Panchó Francisco Sánchez
Production Assistant, Social Media and Website Manager
Katharina’s interdisciplinary work includes animation, installation, film, performance, images, prose and poetry. She has an intimate understanding of the way that visual and auditory design can transform our perception of time, space, and self, rippling out to shifting how we understand the world. With a passion for having nuanced conversations about our relationships with each other and the earth, she aims to work collaboratively to create media that is rooted in meaningful storytelling and connection.
Katharina Mei-Fa Brinschwitz
Elisa Spears-Hampton
Production Assistant, Executive Assistant to Matika Wilbur