The Red Nation Podcast
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 their friend and comrade Sina. The show also includes Red Power Hour, hosted by Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz. The podcast is supported by patrons on Patreon.
Episodes
The Truth is Buried: The Mohawk Mothers vs. McGill University
** TRIGGER WARNING** The following documentary contains explicit descriptions of psychological and physical violence against children and may be triggering for viewers. Listener discretion is advised. In commemoration of Orange Shirt Day 2026 and Indigenous Peoples Day 2026, Red Media proudly presents a documentary on the ongoing fight by the Mohawk Mothers (Kanien'kehà:ka Kanistansera) to uncover
Living in the Ripe World - RPH reviews "Beyond the Glittering World"
Red Power is back! RPH hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz continue their series on Indigenous futurisms through a discussion of the new collection of stories and poems, "Beyond the Glittering World" (2026) Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/2sweHL-pGiw Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-con
Guerrilla Intellectuals: Theory and Practice w/Pranay Somayajula
From the belly of the empire to the frontlines of global liberation struggles, what does it mean to be an intellectual in service of mass movements? In this episode, Nick Estes (The Red Nation) and Pranay Somayajula sit down to dissect the vital synthesis of revolutionary theory and ground-level practice. Moving beyond academic insulation, they interrogate anti-colonial resistance, Third World sol
White men getting lost: RPH reviews The Odyssey (2026)
A special live edition of Red Power Hour featuring co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz along with some special guests to talk about Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey (2026). Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtube.com/live/VDN8QKwLpAE?feature=share Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-co
Psychic Militancy: Theory and Praxis w/ Lara Sheehi
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes hosts a special livestream conversation featuring Lara Sheehi from Psychic Militancy Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtube.com/live/uC88GWlcnD8 Subscribe to Lara's channel https://www.youtube.com/@PsychicMilitancy Follow Nick on Substack https://nickestes.substack.com Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofun
Indigenous Anti-Communism: Haunting Spectre of Ward Churchill w/ Nick Estes
***Producer's note: TRN Podcast host Nick Estes joined Red Media-produced TYMSYY podcast, hosted by Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya, to talk about anti-communism, pretendianism, and the outsized role of Ward Churchill. Subscribe to TYMSYY if you don't already and help us grow the show*** This is the first installment of our collaborative series on Indigenous Anti-Communism with Nick Est
The Willingness to Destroy: RPH reviews Exterminate All the Brutes (pt.2)
Red Power Hour is back! The second part of an extended conversation by co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie on Exterminate All the Brutes (2021), a documentary television miniseries revolving around colonization and genocide, directed and narrated by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/ejUwOre2CLs Empower our work:
Settler colonialism, socialism, and decolonization w/ Alex Reid
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes in conversation witih Alex Reid. Alex is a comedian and unpublished writer from the Heiltsuk and Nisga'a nations in Northern B.C. His free educationals, writing, videos and podcast features can be found in this document. Watch the livestream edition on the Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtube.com/live/_YHrLiVrbgw?feature=share Follow Nick on Substac
Winter Stories: Reading and Writing in Dakota w/ Šišóka Dúta.
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes hosts Dakota language educator Šišóka Dúta in a conversation about learning, speaking, and teaching their native tongue, Dakota, and the possibilities of expanding Indigenous language education. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/CnSxZLAXvxA Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias
Return to Bandung (#39) - From Minneapolis to Iran w/ Nick Estes
***Producer's note: Reposting an episode Nick recorded with Return to Bandung*** In this episode, I'm joined by returning guest Nick Estes—associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, cofounder of The Red Nation, and author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance(Verso Books,
The Willingness to Destroy: RPH reviews Exterminate All the Brutes (pt.1)
Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie tackle Exterminate All the Brutes (2021), a documentary television miniseries revolving around colonization and genocide, directed and narrated by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.theredn
RPH - Storytelling as resistance (pt.1) w/ Deborah Miranda
***Note: This is part one of a two-part episode. Patrons of Red Media can access the entire interview, so join the Patreon today for as little as $2 a month if you haven't already!!*** Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz interview scholar, writer, and poet Deborah Miranda on her work, including her memoir, Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2014) Watch the video edition o
The New Red Scare
President Trump is fomenting a right-wing fever dream of a communist plot to destroy America. TRN Podcast host Nick Estes, debunks this myth. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/A7nl1X_XwAg Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.
"The Truth is Not Out There": RPH reviews Disclosure Day (2026)
RPH is back!!! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz discuss Steven Spielberg's latest summer blockbuster. 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
What Indigenous People Think of the 250th: The First America Podcast Series w/ Rebecca Nagle
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks to returning guest and friend of the show Rebecca Nagle about her new podcast series, First America. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channelhttps://youtu.be/A7nl1X_XwAg NOTE: WE ARE REPUBLISHING THE FIRST EPISODE OF THE SERIES ALONGSIDE THIS EPISODE. DESCRIPTION BELOW Native people have been written out of the American story, but with
First America S3.E1: Merciless Indian Savages
"Native people have been written out of the American story, but without us you don't know what happened. This summer the United States will celebrate the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. When you read the Declaration, you realize it is a list of complaints. The last entry, the climax in our founders' reasons for rebellion against the Crown, is this: "He has e
We have a planet to save! The Red Deal 5th Anniversary
An all-star cast of hosts, friends, and comrades take part in this extra-long episode commemorating the 5-year anniversary of The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth. Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtube.com/live/urroZOLfdW4 Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content Subscribe to The
Colonialism is the Angel of Death: RPH vs. Exposure (2024)
RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie discuss Ramona Emerson's Exposure (2024) Check out our earlier episode on Ramona's previous novel, Shutter (2022) 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
Say NO to Magellan Pipeline w/Mark Tilsen
Mark Tilsen, Oglala Lakota Poet Educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, returns to the show to discuss the Megellan Pipeline. Watch the video edition on our YouTube channelhttps://youtu.be/WNF9_v2zpAo 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.
Revolution "Betrayed"? What's Really Happening in Venezuela? w/Cira Pascual Marquina & Chris Gilbert
Since the illegal U.S. abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, Global North commentators have rushed to declare the Bolivarian Revolution betrayed or defeated. The recent extradition of Alex Saab has only intensified these accusations. In this episode, Chavista intellectuals Cira Pascual and Chris Gilbert discuss Venezuela's new reality and the tendency
(How badly) did the US lose to Iran? w/ Sina Rahmani
Nick Estes conversation with Sina Rahmani, producer of The Red Nation Podcast and host of The East is a Podcast, discussing not only the historic failure of the ZioAmerican imperialist war machine to achieve their stated war aims of toppling Iran's government, but also Iran's equally historic upending of the American siege around the country through so-called "sanctions." Watch the livestream edi
RPH - Learning what we already know
RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie discuss Cannupa Hanska Luger's Surviva: A Future Ancestral Field Guide (2025), a hybrid art piece/survival manual exploring indigenous futurism, decolonization, and relationality through redacted military text and Indigenous artwork. Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content Subscribe to The
Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization A Hybrid Symposium (Panel 3)
Producer's note: We are releasing the audio edition of one panel of the conference TRN Podcast host Nick Estes helped organize. You can watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel. We had some technical difficulties at the beginning of this panel so the recording start shortly after Nick began his introduction. Our apologies! Symposium Introduction & Framing - Self-indigeniz
RPH vs. Marvel's Echo (2024)
RPH is back!! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie tackle the Disney+ television adaptation of Marvel's comics character Echo. 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
RPH vs. Indigenous Futurism
RPH is back! Red Power Hour co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz tackle a collection of stories, Love after the End An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction 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.the
Doing Native journalism w/ Danielle Paradis
The Red Nation Podcast host Nick Estes is be joined by Edmonton-based Otipemisiwak Métis journalist Danielle Paradis for an episode on Native journalism, journalistic ethics and self-Indigenization, reporting on the separatist movement and Indigenous politics in Alberta. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empowe
RPH vs. Sinners (2025) w/ Jodi Byrd (Part 1)
**Producer's note: This is the first half of a two-part episode. The second half will be available to patrons of Red Media and on YouTube channel for free. Sign up today for as little as $2 a month for access to all the great bonus content! RPH is back! Indigenous scholar Jodi Byrd joins co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz for another episode on Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025) Watch the video
The Cuban Revolution and U.S. Imperialism w/ August Nimtz
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes in conversation with August Nimtz, Professor of Political Science and African American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota. Check out the Minnesota Cuba Committee https://www.facebook.com/MNCubaCmte/ Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/h2-BIkBSXMg Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empo
RPH - ICE Out! Drop the Charges! An Interview with Isabel Lopez
Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie sits down with Isabel Lopez to discuss almost a year of community-led resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Lopez was the first community protector to be arrested for protesting a violent ICE raid in a neighborhood of color in South Minneapolis in June 2025. Lopez is one of over 300 community protectors facing state and f
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 l
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 Marice
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
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/ Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/r
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/ Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/redmediapr
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://
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/ Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/redmediapr
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) an
The Water Remembers w/ Amy Bowers Cordalis
RPH is BACK! Amy Bowers-Cordalis joins RPH Co-host Elena Ortiz to talk about her new book, the liberation of the Klamath River and her family's contributions to that struggle. This is a story of hope and triumph. 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 Nati
Minneapolis Update: Not Minnesota Nice
Operation Metro Surge is just two months old. In this episode, TRN Podcast host Nick Estes examines the recent history and the historic community resistance against the deadly and traumatic federal invasion. Fort Snelling: The Advance Guard of Federal Invasion Since 1805: https://racketmn.com/fort-snelling-the-advance-guard-of-federal-invasion-since-1805 Watch the video edition on The Red Nation P
"All we need is each other": From the frontlines in Minneapolis
RPH co-host Melanie Yazzie continues our series of frontline reports from Minneapolis. In this episode, Melanie speaks to Rachel Thunder from the Indigenous Protector Movement and NDN's Lorenzo Serna. 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 Newslette
Red Power Hour - Hope in the Streets: Report from Minneapolis
Red Power Hour is back! The RPH crew discusses the fascist attack on Minneapolis by ICE and the mass mobilization against it. Joining co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz is TRN comrade Demetrius Johnson. 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.pa
Minneapolis vs. ICE w/ Indigenous Protector Movement
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with the Indigenous Protector Movement on what's happening in Minneapolis. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPscledAlaA 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 http
Maduro kidnapped: Is the Venezuela invasion an Indian war? - Left Reckoning 252
**TRN Podcast host Nick Estes did an episode with the folks over at Left Reckoning on the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro** "Nick Estes, historian, author, and co-host of The Red Nation Podcast answers the question: Is the Venezuela invasion an Indian War? Read Nick's piece here" Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? w/ Gabriel Rockhill
Producer's note: We are reposting the most recent episode of Red Scare, TRN Podcast host Nick Estes' new(ish) media project. It is a very long episode on a new book by returning guest Gabriel Rockhill on the history of Western Marxism. We hope you enjoy it! This is an intellectual world war. Gabriel Rockhill joins us to discuss his new book, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? We discuss th
2025: Year in Review
The Red Media family came together to discuss the tirefire that was 2025. Thank you from the entire Red Media podcast team and looking forward to more in 2026! 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/ Patre
Indigenous Spirituality, Religious Freedom, and Psychedelics w/ Christine McCleave
Join TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live in conversation with Christine McCleave to discuss Indigenous spirituality and the psychedelic industry. Check our Christine's website for more information https://christinemccleave.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 Subscr
RPH vs. Wind River (2017)
Red Power Hour is back!!! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena discuss Taylor Sheridan's Wind River (2017). 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
Best of 2024 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 2024. 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! Every episode can be found on our channels and will be listed on ther
Socialist organizing and the DSA w/ Jorge Rocha, John Lewis, Luisa Martinez
Join TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live with members of the International Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America. 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
Becoming Little Shell w/ Chris La Tray
**Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!** Chris La Tray joins TRN Podcast host Nick Estes in studio to discuss his latest book, Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home. He talks about the complexities of Indigenous family and tribal histories and fighting back against Indigenous erasure in this moment of backlash. Check out his Substack, An Irritable Métis Watch the video edit
Mormon Settler Colonialism w/ Elise Boxer
Elise Boxer returns to the show for a livestream conversation about her new book, Mormon Settler Colonialism: Inventing the Lamanite (2025) 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 www.patreon.c
RPH vs. Chief of War (2025)
**Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!** RPH is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz discuss Chief of War (2025), a Hawaiian historical drama series created by Thomas Paʻa Sibbett and Jason Momoa for Apple TV. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/2d6lpI6QbRc Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indi
The foundations of Zionism w/ Fida Jiryis
**Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!** Fida Jiryis is a Palestinian writer, scholar. and translator of The Foundations of Zionism (2025) by her father, Sabri Jiryis. Check our her memoir, Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home (2022) Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.co
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
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 T
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 Move
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 edi
"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. Unfortunate
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
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/empowe
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: h
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
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
"Indigeneity is simply a relationship to settler colonialism": Justine Teba live on Radio Tomada
Comrade Justine joins Radio Tomada at the 2025 Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival to explain the work of Red Media and The Red Nation. 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
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
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 o
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 ruli
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
"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-Im
"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 t
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
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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
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 ed
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 I
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 ou
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
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-conte
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 Me
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
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
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