The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation
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The Red Nation Podcast features discussions on Indigenous history, politics, and culture from a left perspective. Hosted by Nick Estes and Jen Marley with help from our friend and comrade Sina. The Red Nation Podcast is also the home of Red Power Hour, hosted by Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz. Our show is entirely supported by our patrons on Patreon, support the show and get access to bonus content and other patron exclusive benefits here: Patreon.com/redmediapr Website: therednation.org Follow the hosts on Twitter @nickwestes and @JenMarley1680 and the Red Nation @The_Red_Nation. ​ Theme song: "Dead Horse" by Weedrat https://weedrat.bandcamp.com/

  1. 5D AGO

    Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization w/ Kim TallBear

    TRN Podcast Nick Estes live in conversation with Kim TallBear about the conference they organized,  Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization.  You can watch the individual panels that were livestreamed  on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKWiQX270BMoLRv25dDskRfsJ2pptPf3Z Conference description: "This two-day, hybrid symposium will convene leading experts, community members, and "first responders" to the global issue of self-Indigenization, particularly in the form of "Indigenous ethnic fraud," or "pretendianism," as it is referred to in North America. The symposium will be held in Minneapolis, on the traditional homelands of the Dakota people, who were imprisoned and eventually exiled in 1863 to aid settler appropriation of "Minnesota," a word also taken from the Dakota. On top of seizing land, US citizens have for centuries "played Indian" via sports mascots and appropriating Native nation names and iconography in scouting and in industries including the military. In the twenty-first century, we see ballooning numbers of US citizens make mythological claims to belong to Native lineages and nations. Some capitalize on those claims to appropriate Indigenous resources and opportunities, and to seize governance of institutions. We see an obviously violent example of self-Indigenization in the Department of "Homeland Security" whose agents seize governance of these lands, terrorize, imprison, and threaten to exile. As multiple forms of self-Indigenization converge, not all are grasped as violent, yet they combine to further colonial extraction. Extractive self-Indigenization, including Indigenous ethnic fraud, not only targets American Indians, but also First Nations, Métis, and Inuit in Canada; and global Indigenous communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, and elsewhere. This symposium will bring participants together to engage in critical discussions, learn from one another, and discuss actionable strategies to disrupt this global problem." Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

    1h 18m

  2. MAR 30

    Red Power Hour - Solidarity with the Prairieland 19

    Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie hosts a conversation with Kelsey Fryman and Cloud Runner, and Kristen on the Prairieland 19, a group of Anti-ICE protestors who have been incarcerated for months on fabricated charges of supporting terrorism. DFW Support Committee:   https://prairielanddefendants.com/  Legal Defense Fund:  https://www.givesendgo.com/supportDFWprotestors GoFundMe to help Maricela Rueda's family:   https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-maricelas-family-while-she-fights-for-justice GoFundMe to help Des: https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-artist-des-revol-an-immigration-attorney Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

    1h 11m

  3. MAR 23

    Decolonizing West Asia: The Ramadan War w/ Sina Rahmani

    TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live in conversation with Sina Rahmani, host of The East is a Podcast and producer of The Red Nation Podcast, on the wider context of the Ramadan War and what is at stake in this historic confrontation.  Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

    1h 8m

  4. MAR 16

    RPH. vs Smoke Signals (1998)

    RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie tackle the almost three-decade-old classic, Smoke Signals (1988),the first major motion picture written, directed, and acted all by Native people.   Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

    1h 19m

  5. MAR 9

    RPH vs. Avatar: Fire and Ash (2026)

    RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie tackle the latest installment of the Avatar franchise.  Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast Youtube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

    1h 11m
  6. Drug Cartels do not exist w/Oswaldo Zavala and Alex Aviña

    MAR 2

    Drug Cartels do not exist w/Oswaldo Zavala and Alex Aviña

    TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live in conversation with longtime friend of the show Alex Aviña (@alexander_Avina) and Oswaldo Zavala (@oswaldo__zavala), the author of Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture Follow Nick on Substack https://nickestes.substack.com Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

    1h 36m

  7. FEB 23

    The Imperial Slingshot w/ Charisse Burden-Stelly

    TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live in conversation with Charisse Burden-Stelley. Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

    1h 57m
  8. Solidarity, Not Spam: Defend Chamoru Self-Determination, Oppose Bill 242-38!

    FEB 17

    Solidarity, Not Spam: Defend Chamoru Self-Determination, Oppose Bill 242-38!

    URGENT: Sign now to oppose Bill 242-38; the hearing is happening as this episode drops.  Petition: https://forms.gle/zEoq7Rf6Jmg32jTS7 Note: The recording took place 24 hours before the public hearing at the Guam Congress Building on Bill 242-38. Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie and TRN comrade Tåhdong talk with Melvin Won Pat-Borja (Executive Director, Guam Commission on Decolonization) and Michael Lujan Bevacqua (Co-Chair, Independent Guåhan) about why Bill 242-38 would erase a Native-Inhabitant–led vote and violate CHamoru self-determination. We cover Guåhan and Micronesia's decolonization history, the ways U.S. citizenship is switched on/off by a militarized agenda, how an Independent Micronesia could shift Guam from being America's "tip of the spear" to a bridge of peace between East and West, and why Indigenous solidarity is more powerful than spam. Submit written or oral testimony before the public hearing. Toolkit with scripts, emails, addresses: https://tinyurl.com/y2kxa38n Sign & share now: https://forms.gle/zEoq7Rf6Jmg32jTS7 →  Then submit testimony and call Guam's senators using the COD Toolkit https://tinyurl.com/y2kxa38n   Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

    1h 11m
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The Red Nation Podcast features discussions on Indigenous history, politics, and culture from a left perspective. Hosted by Nick Estes and Jen Marley with help from our friend and comrade Sina. The Red Nation Podcast is also the home of Red Power Hour, hosted by Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz. Our show is entirely supported by our patrons on Patreon, support the show and get access to bonus content and other patron exclusive benefits here: Patreon.com/redmediapr Website: therednation.org Follow the hosts on Twitter @nickwestes and @JenMarley1680 and the Red Nation @The_Red_Nation. ​ Theme song: "Dead Horse" by Weedrat https://weedrat.bandcamp.com/

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