The Red Nation Podcast Tour 2022 During the race for nuclear weapons in the 1960s, the United Nuclear Corporation began operations on the largest underground uranium mine in the country, located on the Navajo reservation in Church Rock, New Mexico. The Church Rock uranium mill spill took place on July 16, 1979, when the uranium mill breached its dam--resulting in the largest nuclear disaster in US history. Join Justine and Kyon as they attend the 43rd Uranium Tailings Spill Legacy Commemoration ...
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 27 min
The Red Nation Podcast Tour 2022 Join us in a collaborative effort between Al Jazeera, Black Leaf Films, The Red Nation, and Red Media as Justine and Kyon highlight struggles for liberation in Pueblo, Ute, and Diné territories. First stop is the Healing and Restoring Ancestral Sites Tour with Elder Kathy Sanchez from Tewa Women United and Beata Tsosi Peña from Breath of My Heart Birthplace . This tour shows us the beginning of nuclear colonialism at the Los Alamos National Labs in the sacred mou...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 17 min
The first half of the conversation that Red Power Hour co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) had with TRN comrade Kiley about Wakanda Forever (2022). For just $1, you can become a patron of Red Media and listen to the rest of the conversation-another 45 minutes!-and hours and hours of other great bonus content. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Support Red Media on Patreon...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 5 min
*Red Media is proud to announce the launch of our latest project, REDsurgence, a podcast hosted by Riley Yesno. Subscribe on your podcatcher by clicking here * Uahikea Maile is a Kanaka Maoli professor of Indigenous Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Follow him on Twitter: @uahikea ---------------------------- Follow REDsurgence on Twitter @REDsurgence rileyyesno.com/ Produced by Red Media www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Dec 01, 2022•35 min
Petuuche Gilbert is elder from the Acoma Pueblo who helped found the Laguna and Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment (LACSE) which is one of five core groups in the MultiCultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE). MASE is a consortium of indigenous and environmental justice communities that have been adversely impacted by historic uranium mining and milling in the Grants Uranium Belt. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Nov 28, 2022•51 min
*Episode originally posted November 2020* Kisha James and Mahtowin Munro from United American Indians of New England talk about the importance of the National Day of Mourning and destroying 400 years of the Pilgrim mythology. More info: http://www.uaine.org Watch this year's livestream: https://youtu.be/qB7Vbz0WJXc Donante https://www.gofundme.com/f/united-american-indians-of-new-england-fall-2022 Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 19 min
*Episode originally posted November 2019* LaNada War Jack, a Shoshone Bannock elder and activist, explains her role in the 1969 Alcatraz occupation, a watershed moment in the Red Power movement. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min
The Leonard Peltier Walk to Justice kicked off in Minneapolis, Minnesota on September 1st, 2022. Ten weeks and 1103 miles later it reached Washington, D.C. where a rally was held demanding the freedom of Leonard Peltier, unjustly imprisoned for over 47 years. Video edition available here on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel . Find out more: whoisleonardpeltier.info https://www.facebook.com/LeonardPeltierWalkToJustice/ Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Leonard Peltier is the longest-serving Indigenous political prisoner in the United States. Even the federal prosecutors can't prove Peltier committed the crime of which he's accused. Kevin Sharp, (@KevinHSharp) a former federal judge appointed by President Obama and Peltier's attorney, lays out the case for clemency and for Leonard Peltier's freedom. Find out more: whoisleonardpeltier.info Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Nov 16, 2022•45 min
RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie on the US elections, Land Grab universities, and the unique aspects of white supremacy in the Midwest. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel. Please don't forget to like/subscribe/review the show on your preferred platform. Can't get enough RPH content? Sign up for the Patreon for as little as $1 a month and get access to amazing bonus content, including the latest bonus episode of Red Power Hour on the scou...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 35 min
TRN co-hosts Nick Estes (@nickwestes) and Jen Marley (@JenMarley1680) spent 2.5 hours responding to patrons' questions. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel. Please don't forget to like/subscribe/review the show on your preferred platform. To listen to the second half of the episode and participate in future AMAs, subscribe to the Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr 5 min
A preview of some of the great bonus content available to patrons of Red Media. Sign up for as little as $1 per month. Support: patreon.com/redmediapr Red Power Hour is back for a special patron-only episode! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie discuss the shocking number of cases of ethnic fraud that never seem to stop coming to light.
Nov 03, 2022•21 min
RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie dive into the gendered politics of horror on a special live recording of Red Power Hour. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel. Please don't forget to like/subscribe/review the show on your preferred platform. Can't get enough RPH content? Sign up for the Patreon for as little as $1 a month and get access to amazing bonus content, including the latest bonus episode of Red Power Hour on the scourge of Pretend...
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 13 min
*Episode originally published October 2021* Nick Estes (@nickwestes) and Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) discuss the specter of settler colonialism in John Carpenter's horror classic, Halloween (1978). Can't get enough of TRN spooky content? Sign up for the Patreon for as little as $1 a month to check out the two-hour-long conversation between Nick and friend of the podcast Kali Simmons on the conclusion of the new Halloween reboot trilogy . Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Oct 30, 2022•1 hr 9 min
RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie take on the first season of Dark Winds (2022). Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel. Please don't forget to like/subscribe/review the show on your preferred platform. Can't get enough of the RPH crew? Sign up for the Patreon for as little as $1 a month to get more great Indigenous feminist content! Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Kali Simmons ( @SimmonsKali ) talks to TRN Podcast co-hosts Jen Marley ( @JenMarley1680 ) and Nick Estes ( @nickwestes ) on the cultural links between settler colonialism and horror fiction and film. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel. Please don't forget to like/subscribe/review the show on your preferred platform. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 11 min
TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes ( @nickwestes ) speaks to Pedro Charbel from PSOL (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade) and David Adler ( @davidrkadler ) from Progressive International on the Lula's victory in the first round of Brazil's 2022 general election. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel . Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Oct 10, 2022•52 min
Join us this Indigenous Peoples' Day in Tiwa Territory! We are centering Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice and will be fundraising to support. We will be selling shirts and tote bags, so please bring cash. Indigenous Peoples' Day 2022 Albuquerque, NM this October 10th at Tiguex Park march starts at 5 pm at the Wendy's parking lot at the corner of Central & Lomas Best parking is at Tiguex Park, about a 5 minute walk from the March starting point. Rally will start at 6PM, bring chairs, prayers...
Oct 08, 2022•2 min
RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie discuss the water crisis destroying communities across Turtle Island. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Oct 03, 2022•1 hr 25 min
What's in a name? Misnaming is central to the subjugation of Native Nations and the distortion of history. Oglala scholar and founder of CAIRNS, Craig Howe, joins us to discuss the warped accounts of Lewis and Clark that he documents in the re-publication of This Stretch of the River: Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Responses to the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Bicentennial (2006). We then cover the origins of the Oceti Sakowin nations and the politics of American Indian education. Buy this Stretch...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Kanaka Maoli educator Malia Lum-Kawaihoa Marquez ( @ka_nax808 ) talks to Uahikea Maile ( @uahikea ) about the reoccupation of Waikīkī to protect Hawaiian monk seals from tourists. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Sep 19, 2022•32 min
RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie are joined by comrade Jennifer Marley (@JenMarley1680) to discuss The Red Nation Podcast's reaching two million downloads! Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel. Can't get enough of the RPH crew? Sign up for the Patreon for as little as $1 a month to get more great Indigenous feminist content--including the entirety of this conversation! Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Sep 12, 2022•59 min
The American Indian Movement has organized "Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice" from Minneapolis to Washington, D.C., where organizers plan to meet with government officials to demand the release of Peltier from the U.S. federal prison system. This recording is taken from the kickoff event in Minneapolis held on August 31st. Watch the video editon on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel . For more information on the walk, including how to get involved, visit the walk's Facebook page Support www...
Sep 05, 2022•1 hr 33 min
*Note: this conversation contains major plot spoilers* Red Power Hour co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) talk to Red Nation comrades Justine Teba and Kiley Guy about Prey (2022). Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel . Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 24 min
A commemoration of the Hilo Massacre featuring Nick Estes ( @nickwestes ), Jollene Levid ( @jollenelevid ), Ilima Long ( @ItsIlima ), Loubna Qutami (@LoubnaQutami) Check out Hui Aloha Aina O Honolulu Watch the video edition here on The Red Nation YouTube channel . Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Aug 22, 2022•2 hr 7 min
Red Nation comrade Melanie Yazzie hosts this live event exploring the life and legacy of Larry Casuse, featuring Ursula C. Carillo, Erika Casuse, author David Correia, and a musical performance by JJ Otero . Read: An Enemy Such As This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents over Three Centuries by David Correia Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel or watch this episode ad-free by signing up on Patreon for as little as $1 a m...
Aug 15, 2022•1 hr 21 min
RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie tackle the thorny topic of the church in light of the Pope's highly publicized, recent apology to First Nations people. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel or watch this episode ad-free by signing up on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Justine Teba joins Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie and guest Samia Assed to revisit The Red Nation's history and solidarity with Palestine. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel or watch this episode ad-free by signing up on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 23 min
*Episode originally posted May 2019* In 1972, Yvonne Wanrow (now Yvonne Swan) shot a man who had tried to molest her son and neighbor's son in Spokane, Washington. Her case became a rallying cry for Indigenous and feminist activists in the 1970s to highlight the intersections of colonialism, gender violence, and the injustices of the U.S. criminal system. The ensuing legal battle resulted in a landmark decision allowing for self-defense for survivors of domestic violence and marked the first tim...
Jul 25, 2022•1 hr 28 min
It's been 47 years since the shootout at Oglala that left two FBI agents and a young Native man named Joe Stuntz dead. While Leonard Peltier unjustly sits in prison for the events of that day, the shootout and the deadly legacy of the "reign of terror" remain an open wound for community members and the American Indian Movement. Here's their story. Narrated by Nick Estes (@nickwestes) Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel or watch this episode ad-free by signing up on ...
Jul 18, 2022•1 hr 2 min