Blue Cat People are not Indigenous: RPH vs. Avatar (pt.1)
Release Date: 03/24/2025
Mārama and more; Scary Stories from RPH
The Red Nation Podcast
RPH is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz host an extra spooky livestream edition of Red Power Hour and are joined by some special guests to discuss followed by some scary stories! Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon
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Fraud: The case of Ward Churchill w/ Nick Estes (Unlocked)
The Red Nation Podcast
***Producer's note: I recorded an episode with TRN Podcast host Nick Estes for a bonus episode of my show, The East is a Podcast, talking about Ward Churchill. It got such a positive response we are unlocking it and posting it here on the TRN Pod main feed!*** In this special bonus episode co-published with Red Scare, I'm joined by longtime collaborator Nick Estes to discuss the strange career trajectory of Ward Churchill and the violence of pretendianism. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Follow Nick on Substack Consider supporting the show
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No male gaze allowed: RPH reviews Fancy Dance (2023)
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Red Power is back! RPH co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz review , an Apple Originals movie directed by Erica Tremblay. Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon
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The Truth is Buried: The Mohawk Mothers vs. McGill University
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** 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 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 the dark secrets buried at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital, home to the Allen Memorial Institute. For more information, visit and follow on Instagram The Indian Residential School Crisis Line is a national...
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Living in the Ripe World - RPH reviews "Beyond the Glittering World"
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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, (2026) Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon
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Guerrilla Intellectuals: Theory and Practice w/Pranay Somayajula
The Red Nation Podcast
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, (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 solidarity, Indigenous liberation, and the role of the radical writer in organizing for collective power. Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Follow Pranay on Substack Follow...
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White men getting lost: RPH reviews The Odyssey (2026)
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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 Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon
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Psychic Militancy: Theory and Praxis w/ Lara Sheehi
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TRN Podcast host hosts a special livestream conversation featuring Lara Sheehi from Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Subscribe to Lara's channel Follow Nick on Substack Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon
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Indigenous Anti-Communism: Haunting Spectre of Ward Churchill w/ Nick Estes
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***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 of . In this episode, we first introduce our intentions for the series and discuss why it matters to complicate and systematize the various discourses on anti-communism. We then turn to Ward Churchill...
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The Willingness to Destroy: RPH reviews Exterminate All the Brutes (pt.2)
The Red Nation Podcast
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 Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon
info_outline*Producer's note: This is only the first half of the conversation, which in total stretched almost 2.5 hours! To listen to the second half, please sign up at Patreon.com/redmediapr or you can watch the full episode on our YouTube channel soon!
RPH is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz are joined by TRN comrade Levi Harter to discuss James Cameron's mega-blockbuster (and also mega racist) Avatar series.
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