McKenzie Johnson v. Legacies of Anti-Indianism in Education
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Jen and Justine are joined by McKenzie Johnson, Demetrius Johnson, and Kaylee Bahe to discuss an incident that gained national attention on Halloween of 2018. On October 31, 2018, two Indigenous students were assaulted by their teacher, Mary Jane Eastin, at Cibola High School in Albuquerque, NM. In an AP literature course, one student had the end of their braid cut off and the other was called “a bloody Indian.” Mckenzie Johnson is the student who was called a “bloody Indian." On January 8, 2020, The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico filed a lawsuit in the Second...
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Riding the worm: RPH on Dune 2
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Red Power Hour is back! RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiza and Melanie Yazzie dissect the good, the bad, and the ugly of Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two (2024). Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast The Red Nation Podcast is produced by and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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Love in the time of crisis w/ Maira Olivia-Rios and Levi Harter
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*We had originally planned to keep this behind the paywall but there was so much positive feedback regarding the earlier episode we decided to unlock the audio.* TRN Podcast co-host Jen Marley hosts a follow-up to with Levi Harter and Maira Olivia-Rios on the difficulties of making meaningful connections surrounded by economic, political, and ecological crises. Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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Pueblo in Aquarius
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RPH is back! RPH Co-host Melanie Yazzie is joined by Justine Teba to reflect on Indigenous environmental movements and victories against the backdrop of the Gaza genocide and the resistance to it. Justine also debriefs the No False Solutions gathering this past weekend. Special shout out to Pueblo Action Alliance. Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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“If you make that decision, you have to make it with all your heart” w/ Maurus Chino
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TRN Podcast host Jen Marley interviews Acoma Pueblo elder and activist Maurus Chino about his life, organizing career, and the origins of the movement against racist conquistador statues in New Mexico. Cover art: Acoma 1599, Acoma beloved Acoma, ancient of days. By Maurus Chino (2005) The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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YOTED: The settler spirituality to alt-right pipeline
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The return of our miniseries YOTED! Jen and Justine discuss the New Age settler spiritualism to alt-right pipeline. The documentaries mentioned are Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God (2023) and You Can't Kill Meme (2021). Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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From Hawai'i to Palestine, occupation is a crime w/ Mikey
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TRN Podcast co-host Jen Marley speaks to filmmaker and organizer Mikey on the overlapping histories of military occupation between Hawai'i and Palestine. Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Are you Indigenous? Do you support Palestine? Learn more about joining the Indigenous solidarity with Palestine movement and sign the letter here: The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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Indigenous diamonds w/ Sardana Nikolaeva
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Sardana Nikolaeva (Sakha), Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto's Ziibiing Lab , returns to the podcast to discuss her new study, "Indigenous Diamonds: Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia" Read the report here Check out her prior episode, "Indigenous People and the Soviet Union: a Sakha perspective" The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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Decolonial parenting w/ Mekha Aponte, Levi Harter and Marquel Musgrave
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TRN Podcast co-host Jen Marley is joined by Mekha Aponte, Levi Harter, Marquel Musgrave to discuss the status of children in our world today, breaking down power imbalances between youth and adults, and the joy of reclaiming revolutionary parenting. Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast Episode cover art: Jen’s great-grandmother and Pueblo potter, Candelaria Gachupin Zia, with one of her sons. The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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Not in Our Honor - Press Conference
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On February 10, 2024 at Nuwu Art Gallery on unceded Paiute territory (Las Vegas, NV), a group of Indigenous women organized a call to action to change the Kansas City NFL team’s name. This press conference occurred the night before the Super Bowl and was moderated by Fawn Douglas from Nuwu Art Gallery. The main speakers--Amanda Blackhorse (, Gaylene Crouser from the Kansas City Indian Center, and Rhonda LeValdo --are all longtime activists of the movement to change racist teams names across the US, resulting in many victories. In July 2020, the Washington NFL team...
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