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The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nationwww.therednation.org
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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Episodes

RPH vs. Powwow Highway (1989)

**Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!** RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie return to discuss Powwow Highway (1989) 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 www.patreon.com/redmediapr...

Oct 27, 20251 hr 24 min

Still breaking the siege on Gaza w/ David Adler

**Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!** David Adler (@davidrkadler) from Progressive International returns to The Red Nation Podcast to talk with host Nick Estes about his experiences on the Global Sumud Flotilla ! 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...

Oct 20, 202556 min

Indigenous Peoples' Day 2025 Mixtape

**Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!** Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day 2025 from Red Media! Track List 1. Introduction / Justine 2. Indigenous Peoples' Day vs. Empire Pt. 1 3. City of Albuquerque proclamation of Indigenous Peoples' Day 4. IPD 2021 - Pueblo Elders Panel 5. IPD 2022 - Ké Infoshop 6. Indigenous Peoples' Day vs. Empire Pt. 2 7. IPD 2023 - Wael Omar/Palestinian Youth Movement Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content Subscribe ...

Oct 13, 202559 min

Mapping deportations w/ Mariah Tso and Kelly Lytle Hernández

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with Mariah Tso and Kelly Lytle Hernández with scholars behind mappingdeportations.com . Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA. Mariah Tso is a Diné Cartographer and GIS Specialist with the Million Dollar Hoods (MDH) Project at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/...

Oct 06, 20251 hr 1 min

"A true warrior" : Debrief of the John Redhouse book tour

**Producer's note. As listeners know, this summer Red Media was proud to organize a book tour celebrating the publication of John Redhouse's book, Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories in the Four Corners: The Turbulent 1970s. As part of the tour, TRN comrades recorded a bonus episode for patrons to reflect on the tour and what they learned from John in person. Unfortunately, in the tumult of the summer, I completely forgot to work on the episode! My apologies to you all a...

Sep 29, 202550 min

Ritual Human Sacrifice: Normalizing Genocide in Gaza

Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of genocidal violence, including racist incitement from Zionist figures and accounts from victims of extremely brutal sexual violence **Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!** A new UN report confirms what the world has known for the last 23 months: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. This solo episode from TRN Podcast host Nick Estes breaks down the report and asks the larger questions: How did we get here? And if we've normalized this...

Sep 22, 202557 min

Oñate: the Zombie Conquistador symbol that just won't die w/ Christina Castro

Red Power Hour co-host Elena Ortiz speaks with Christina Castro from the Three Sisters Collective about the pageantry and symbols of conquest in Northern New Mexico and why the Hispanic population in northern New Mexico hangs onto these concepts of conquest and whiteness. 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...

Sep 15, 202557 min

RPH vs. The Wind and the Reckoning (2022)

Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz review The Wind and the Reckoning (2022), which dramatizes the colonization of Kanaka Maoli' lands and the Native resistance to it. 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 www.patreon.com/redmediapr...

Sep 08, 20251 hr 14 min

Doing American Indian Studies w/ Jerome Clark and Elise Boxer

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by Jerome Clark , Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at ASU, and Elise Boxer, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute of American Indian Studies at USD, to discuss some critical questions around the future of the discipline of American Indian Studies. Check out their book, From the Skin: Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis (2025) Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our wo...

Sep 01, 20251 hr 33 min

The Book of Genocide: The Bible and settler colonialism w/ Justin Podur

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes in conversation with Justin Podur ( @justinpodur ) from The Anti Empire Project on the role of the Bible and the Book of Joshua in particular in enabling the genocide in Gaza. Check out Justin's projects: Personal website: https://podur.org/ Substack: https://justinpodur.substack.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/justinpodur Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-med...

Aug 25, 20251 hr 32 min

Nick Estes on "Manifest Destiny"

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes hosts a solo episode on the US imperialist doctrine of "Manifest Destiny." Check out Moussa al-Sadah's article "Palestinian Peoples: on Disintegration and the Conditions for Intifada Palestinian Peoples: on Disintegration and the Conditions for Intifada" 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.thered...

Aug 11, 20251 hr 5 min

Movies with Comrades: How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

A special screening event hosted by the DSA in Santa Fe, NM for local charitable causes included a panel of special guests on the film How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) in which a group of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline. Hosted by actor Jasper Keen, with special guest panelists including Alma Castro, Santa Fe City Councilor; Elena Ortiz, Co-Host of the Red Power Hour on The Red Nation Podcast ; and Wren Sharkey, a local activist and community or...

Aug 04, 202532 min

On John Carpenter's They Live (1988) w/ Sina Rahmani

***TRN Podcast host Nick Estes did an episode with producer Sina Rahmani for an episode on his new SubStack project, Red Scare. This is a preview. To listen/watch the entire episode, subscribe to Red Scare *** Nick Estes in conversation with TRN Podcast producer and host of The East is a Podcast Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist) explore what John Carpenter's They Live (1988) can teach us how the ruling class uses ideaology to govern our everyday—and how to break free of that control!...

Jul 30, 202525 min

Fourth of YOU STOLE OUR F****** LAND event w/ John Redhouse

The third and final livestream of the book tour celebrating the publication of Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s Hosted by Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie at the Inspired Moments Event Center Farmington, New Mexico. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Press Release: "From the late summer of 1972 to the late summer of 1974, John Redhouse and many other Navajo and Indian rights activists threw all t...

Jul 28, 20251 hr 50 min

"ICE is a colonial police force" w/ Alex Aviña

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes welcomes back comrade, colleague, and oft-returning guest of the show Alex Aviña to discuss the Trump regime's widening attack on higher education and how it is being waged through a class of neoliberal administrators largely identifying as Democrats. Alex is the author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside Check out Anti-Imperialists.com Video edition coming soon! Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empow...

Jul 21, 20251 hr 35 min

Warrior intellectualism w/ John Redhouse and Jennifer Denetdale

The John Redhouse book tour makes its way to Albuquerque where comrades from Red Nation, Dr. Jennifer Denetdale and Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie join author John Redhouse to discuss his new book, Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Press Release: "From the late summer of 1972 to the late summer of 1974, John Redhouse and many other Navajo and Indian rights acti...

Jul 14, 20252 hr 6 min

"The Red Power movement had been going since 1492" w/ John Redhouse and Carol Wright

Red Media Press and Common Notions are proud to announce our second co-publication! Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s by legendary warrior John Redhouse is a one-of-a-kind lyrical and fast-paced memoir of the frontlines and trenches of Native liberation in the Four Corners and Southwest in the 1970s. This episode is a recording of the first in a series of events celebrating the publication of the book. John and his wife Carol spoke ...

Jul 14, 20251 hr 55 min

Kuskalla#26: Karumanta Qamurqani w/ Jonathan Ritter [English]

***Producer's note: This is a preview of the latest episode of Kuskalla, a trilingual (Quechua-Spanish-English) podcast produced by Red Media and hosted by our comrades Yojana Miraya Oscco and Renzo Aroni. Listen to the full episode on the Kuskalla podcast feed*** In this episode, I talked with Jonathan Ritter , who is the Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of California, Riverside. We discussed his viral Quechua Pumpin song " Karumanta ...

Jul 06, 202535 min

SLAPP'd: Green NGOs, Pipeline Mercenaries, and reporting on the Water Protector movement w/ Tristan Ahtone and Alleen Brown

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes interviews Allen Brown (@AlleenBrown ) from Drilled and Tristan Ahtone (@Tahtone ) from Grist about their investigation into the legal war waged on the Standing Rock Water Protectors and their allies years after the end of the encampments. Check out Tristan's article "A court ordered Greenpeace to pay a pipeline company $660M. What happens next?" Check out the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/...

Jun 30, 20251 hr 5 min

No War on Iran! w/ Nina Farnia and Ali Alizadeh

**Note: This episode was recorded before the American aggression on Iranian nuclear facilities** TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by guests Nina Farnia ( @ninafarnia ) and Ali Alizadeh ( @ali7adeh ) to discuss the Zionist aggression on Iran and the looming specter of the US joining the war. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Check out Nina's recent article, "The Iranian-American Intelligentsia in U.S. Foreign Affairs: Ahistoricism, Anti-Structuralism, and the ...

Jun 23, 20251 hr 18 min

RPH vs. Sinners (2025)

Red Power Hour is back! RPH co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena discuss Ryan Coogler's new horror film, Sinners (2025) Watch the video edition on The Red Nation 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 Join us for our book launch and tour as we release Red Media's second publication! Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars...

Jun 16, 20251 hr 14 min

Red Power Hour - The banality of colonial evil

Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena survey the burning tirefire of US imperial decline and ask the perennial question, what is even left to say? Video edition coming soon! 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 www.patreon.com/redmediapr...

Jun 09, 20251 hr 10 min

Anti-Imperialism and Indigenous methodologies w/ Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya, two researchers from the Sakha Republic and hosts of Red Media's newest media project, TYMSYY . Make sure to check out Sardana's earlier episodes of the show! 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.patreo...

Jun 02, 20251 hr 39 min

Best of 2022 Mixtape (pt.1)

Celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast with us! This mixtape is a part of our "best of" series. This tracklist features some of the best of the show from the year 2022. Part two will be available on our Patreon as patron-exclusive content! Much gratitude to our patrons who have kept the show alive these past five years! Please support the show and gain access to bonus content on the Red Media Patreon! Every episode can be found on our channels and will be listed on therednation.org Track...

May 26, 20251 hr 36 min

RPH vs. Thunderheart (1992)

RPH is back! Cohosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie do a very deep dive reading of Thunderheart (1992). 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...

May 19, 20251 hr 25 min

Reading J. Sakai's "Settlers" w/ Jared Ware (Pt.1)

**Producer's note: This episode went for an astonishing 2.5 hours -- our longest episode ever! We have released the first hour of the conversation on the free feed, and if you want to listen to the entire episode , become a patron for as little as $2 a month** Nick Estes was joined by Jared Ware (@jaybeware) , host of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism , for a livestream conversation and analysis of J. Sakai's Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat From Mayflower to Modern (1983) . Wat...

May 12, 20251 hr 2 min

Fascism, imperialism, and the law w/ Nina Farnia

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by legal scholar Nina Farnia (@NinaFarnia) to discuss America's supposed slide into oligarchic fascism, what remains of the Western "rules-based order," and how the war in Ukraine and the Gaza holocaust have enriched the US ruling class. Check out her article, "Imperialism in the Making of U.S. Law" 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 Su...

May 05, 20251 hr 39 min

Best of 2021 Mixtape (pt.1)

Celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast with us! This mixtape is a part of our "best of" series and features some of the best of the show from 2021. Part two will be available on our Patreon as patron-exclusive content! Much gratitude to our patrons who have kept the show alive these past five years! Empower the show and gain access to bonus content on the Red Media Patreon! Every episode can be found on our channels and will be listed on therednation.org Tracklist: TRN-KREZ Settlers Gone...

Apr 28, 20251 hr 35 min

Red Power Hour - Who's got the power? We've got the power!

Red Power is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz dissect the fascist assault on institutions of higher learning. 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 www.patreon.com/redmediapr...

Apr 21, 20251 hr 30 min
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