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Indigenous Action

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Welcome to Indigenous Action where we dig deep into critical issues impacting our communities throughout Occupied America/Turtle Island. This is an autonomous anti-colonial broadcast with unapologetic and claws-out analysis towards total liberation. So take your seat by this fire and may the bridges we burn together, light our way.

Episodes

Indigenous Action Podcast Ep. 18: No Settler Future An Anti-Year in Review (sorta)

Join Klee Benally, Chizhii, and Kittie Kuntagion as they close out the colonial calendar year with a raging fire of challenges and agitations that have been at the forefront of anti colonial struggle in 2023. We ask the questions, “What fights matter the most to you right now?” and more simply, “What’s pissing you off […]

Dec 23, 20232 hr 33 minTranscript available on Metacast

Indigenous Action Podcast Episode 17: Decolonization isn’t a Holiday

Rejecting Indigenous Peoples’ Day of Tokenism Hosts Klee and Bonn talk with some awesome guests & revisit our 2017 ‘zine “Uprooting Colonialism: The Limitations of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” We dig into the questions, “How do whitewashed celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day undermine decolonization?” and “What does it mean to be an anti-colonial abolitionist?” Guests: Amrah […]

Oct 05, 20232 hr 39 minTranscript available on Metacast

Indigenous Action Podcast Episode 15: 15th Annual No Thanks, No Giving: Indigenous Anarchism

Indigenous Action Podcast hosts Bonn and Klee join featured guest speaker Tawinikay in a panel style discussion on Indigenous Autonomy and Anarchism: Against Settler Politics.  This podcast is from the livestream of the 15th Annual No Thanks, No Giving! that was held on Thursday, November 24th. For 15 years we have hosted No Thanks, No […]

Dec 10, 20222 hr 45 minTranscript available on Metacast

Indigenous Action Podcast Episode 14: Queering #MMIWG2ST

In this #mmiwg2st show, host Bonn talks with indigequeers, Simona Bearcub (@bearcubstrong), Blue (@ceneeteeniieihii), and Demian Dinéyazhi’ (@heterogeneoushomosexual) about queer erasure within the cis-heteronormative narratives around #MMIWG2ST and the co-optation of our movement by the non-profit industrial complex. Content warning: Sexual & interpersonal violence. [Transcripts below] Connect with & support: Bonn, Simona, Blue and Demian’s […]

May 05, 2022Transcript available on Metacast

Indigenous Action Podcast Episode 13: Unsettling Climate Colonialism

In this #earthday show, hosts Bearcat and Klee talk with anarchaqueer Onkwehon:we organizer Amanda Lickers about land trauma and the extractive ways the climate justice movement perpetuates white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism. Connect with & support Amanda’s work: www.instagram.com/skrimpskrap/ and PayPal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/ALickers Watch on youtube: www.youtu.be/TebscxKK4PM Hosts:Klee Benally (Diné), Indigenous Anarchist agitator. Writer, musician, filmmaker, […]

Apr 22, 2022Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 12: Abolishing the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Content warning: Sexual violence. The Non-profit Industrial Complex (NPIC) is a system of relationships designed by colonial and capitalist forces to manage and neutralize effective radical organizing. In this show we address how the Indigenous NPIC and capitalists are barriers to building collective power towards liberation. Guests: Morning Star Gali is a member of the […]

Nov 24, 2021Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 11: Against the Academy: Voices Countering the Academic Industrial Complex

In this show we hear from host Edxi Betts and our guests about their experiences within the Academic Industrial Complex and discuss the ways they navigate, disorient, and seek to abolish institutional colonial education systems. Guests: Bre Byrd (she/they) is a writer, performer, plant enthusiast, and PhD student in the Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her poetry is […]

Oct 03, 2021Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 10: From the Ashes: Boarding/Residential Schools, Historical Trauma & Radical Reconnection

With thousands of remains of Indigenous children recently uncovered in mass graves at residential schools in “Canada,” collective Indigenous rage has been sparked to address the brutal legacy of colonial schools. In this show we share our personal experiences, and discuss how we cannot address the brutal horrors of assimilation through forced education without facing […]

Aug 05, 2021Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 9: Against Colonial Logics: Rethinking Resistance to Resource Extraction

Many Indigenous frontline resistance struggles are wrought with strategies and tactics that reinforce colonial logics. From resource extraction resistances, “honoring” treaties, green capitalism, and Indigenous non-profit capitalists, how do we identify, challenge, and go beyond these issues so we can more effectively fight for liberation?In this show we hear from Bearcat reporting from the frontlines […]

Jul 02, 2021Transcript available on Metacast