25 episodes
This Land Crooked Media
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4.9 • 127 Ratings
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The award-winning documentary podcast This Land is back for season 2. Host Rebecca Nagle reports on how the far right is using Native children to attack American Indian tribes and advance a conservative agenda.
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Introducing “Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s”
Episode 1: The Police Officer and the Priest: One night back in the late 1970s, an officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police pulled over a suspected drunk driver. When he walked up to the vehicle, he came face-to-face with a ghost from his past: a residential school priest. That officer was journalist Connie Walker’s late father. What happened that night on the side of the road compelled her to return home to Saskatchewan nearly 40 years later to try to investigate a secret in her own family. What she uncovers is a much bigger story.
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9. Update: Supreme Court Decision
Last week the Supreme Court made an historic ruling upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act. Rebecca Nagle takes us inside the courtroom to break down the decision, how we got here, and what it all means.
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Introducing Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto
Chapter 1: Bug’s Plan. It’s 2014. Adelanto is a bankrupt city in the California desert known for its massive detention centers and not much else. Then, a stranger comes to town with a wild idea to make Adelanto great again: Become the first city in Southern California to legalize commercial weed cultivation. Subscribe to Dreamtown to hear episode two right now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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8. The Heart Of It
While we wait to see whether the Supreme Court takes the case, we attend a ceremony run by a program that helps Native adoptees reconnect with their tribes.
Show Notes
This Land website https://crooked.com/podcast-series/this-land/
Resources For Survivors https://crooked.com/resources-for-survivors/
Resources For Journalists & Investigators https://crooked.com/resources-for-journalists-investigators/
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7. Before The Court
As the case heads to the Fifth Circuit - the last stop before the Supreme Court - we go inside the courtroom to hear the arguments and the decision.
Show Notes
This Land website https://crooked.com/podcast-series/this-land/
Resources For Survivors https://crooked.com/resources-for-survivors/
Resources For Journalists & Investigators https://crooked.com/resources-for-journalists-investigators/
Have a tip? Share it with our reporting team via SecureDrop https://criticalfrequency.org/securedrop/
Jennifer Brackeen’s Personal Blog https://web.archive.org/web/20201221201802/https://thebrackeens.blogspot.com/
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6. Trojan Horse
We know which law firms and think tanks are bringing these lawsuits, but no one has been able to figure out who’s funding them—or why—until now.
Show Notes
This Land website https://crooked.com/podcast-series/this-land/
Resources For Survivors https://crooked.com/resources-for-survivors/
Resources For Journalists & Investigators https://crooked.com/resources-for-journalists-investigators/
Have a tip? Share it with our reporting team via SecureDrop https://criticalfrequency.org/securedrop/
For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
Customer Reviews
Wonderful
A wonderful podcast, of a terrible situation, full of amazing information. Eye opening.
So Important
The work of this podcast is so important. I discovered it during the second series, so I knew about the Supreme Court ruling of the first series, but what I didn’t know were the real stories of Indigenous people directly impacted by this decision in Oklahoma. The same applies to the Trail of Tears: I knew what Jackson did, but I didn’t know about the what the Ridges did. You can feel the impact of having a podcast driven by Indigenous people - so much education on Indigenous issues focuses on tragedy, but not the joy of being Native; whether it be a victory in the Supreme Court or the welcoming home of adoptees, both series leave you with hope and a moment of happiness, as well as a drive to act.
Very important podcast
I went through 2 seasons of this podcast in 2 days. The stories have drawn me so much I couldn’t stop listening! As a foreigner I do not know much about the history of Native Americans and the abuse they received and are still receiving from the US state. United States was built on pain, tears, greed and genocide. There’s nothing democratic about it and never was. It’s a corrupt state and the sooner Americans realise it and stop telling themselves the stories and myths, the better for them and for the world. The healing process can only begin once people stop lying to themselves and work through the trauma. This podcast is an important step towards it. Highly recommend!