When Food Is a Right, Not a Ration

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of political threats to SNAP benefits on food insecurity in Native communities.

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 ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Matika Wilbur, Temryss Lane

Guest: Valerie Segrest

Topics covered

• food insecurity
• Native communities
• political threats
• Indigenous food systems
• colonization impacts

Keywords

• SNAP benefits
• food insecurity
• Native relatives
• Indigenous food systems
• political threats

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Muckleshoot

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