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 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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"Everyone deserves love" : TRN Red Valentine
02/17/2025
"Everyone deserves love" : TRN Red Valentine
Justine Teba hosts a star-studded Valentine's Day extravaganza exploring the ins and outs of love and resistance in a settler colonial frame featuring Red Power Host co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz and friends of the podcast Jana Schmieding and Dallas Goldtooth. Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our media work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon:
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"It's hard to get rid of us" w/ susan abulhawa
02/10/2025
"It's hard to get rid of us" w/ susan abulhawa
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes ) speaks to susan abulhawa ), Palestinian author and Executive Director of, the only North American literature festival dedicated to celebrating and promoting cultural productions of Palestinian writers and artists. Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our media work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon:
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Counterinsurgency, Leonard Peltier, and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash w/ Gord Hill
02/03/2025
Counterinsurgency, Leonard Peltier, and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash w/ Gord Hill
A livestream conversation between TRN podcast host Nick Estes and Native comic artist and writer Gord Hill. Gord Hill is an Indigenous writer, artist and activist from the Kwakwaka'wakw nation. He is the author and illustrator of and The Anti-Capitalist Resistance. Check out his piece, Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel ICYMI: Our documentary on the murder of Anne Mae Aquash, (also available as audio on the podcast feed) Empower our media work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon:
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Bad Indians w/ Gregg Deal
01/27/2025
Bad Indians w/ Gregg Deal
**Producer's note: This is a portion of the conversation. Listen to the by becoming a Patreon of Red Media for as little as $2 a month** TRN Comrades Justine Teba and Kyon Benally speak to Gregg Deal, artist and frontman of the band Dead Pioneers Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our media work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon:
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Leonard Peltier is going home!
01/20/2025
Leonard Peltier is going home!
A livestream conversation hosted by TRN Podcast host Nick Estes and prominent members of the Leonard Peltier movement for clemency! Statement by The Red Nation: "After a half-century of unjust incarceration, Leonard Peltier is finally going home! “It’s finally over–I’m going home,” said Peltier in response to the news. “I want to show the world I’m a good person with a good heart. I want to help the people, just like my grandmother taught me.” For decades, the now elder Dakota and Ojibwe member of the American Indian Movement represented a powerful symbol for millions. His imprisonment has been viewed as collective punishment against generations of Indigenous people who fought for liberation, from the Red Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the Water Protector Movement that fought against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016." Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Read the entire statement here Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon:
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The Red Nation Mixtape Vol. 1
01/20/2025
The Red Nation Mixtape Vol. 1
*Producer's note: Some of the audio on this episode was recorded under not-so-ideal conditions* Join us in celebrating 10 years of The Red Nation by listening to picks from our archive! Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon:
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Kuzkalla #23: Indigenous Research Methodologies w/ Indigenous Scholars Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya
01/15/2025
Kuzkalla #23: Indigenous Research Methodologies w/ Indigenous Scholars Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya
In this episode, we speak with Indigenous scholars Dr. Sardana Nikolaeva and Dr. Masha Kardashevskaya about their essays on Indigenous research methodologies. They discuss the significance of Indigenous-led research, its challenges, and the insights it offers within different geopolitical contexts. The conversation also touches on the importance of self-awareness in this work and the key lessons learned from navigating these complex research landscapes. If you enjoy this podcast, you can support it by sharing it, hitting subscribe, or leaving a review. Our podcast is produced by Red Media and Red Nation; please consider supporting our work if you don't already on Patreon: Follow us on social media: on Twitter; on IG Subsribe to Kuskalla on or Kuskalla Abya Yala
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YOTED: Alienation before alienation
01/13/2025
YOTED: Alienation before alienation
YOTED is back! Comrades Justine and Levi, and East is a Podcast host, Sina, join to discuss the documentary Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults (2020). Watch the on The Red Nation channel; don't forget to like and subscribe! Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon:
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When the Pine Needles Fall w/ Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel and Sean Carleton
01/06/2025
When the Pine Needles Fall w/ Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel and Sean Carleton
TRN podcast host Nick Estes ) is joined by Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel ) and Sean Carleton ) to discuss When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance (2024), an insider's account of the 1990 land crisis between Canadian state security forces and Indigenous land defenders near the town of Oka, Quebec. Gabriel reflects on the lessons from the siege from her position as the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) spokesperson. Order the book here Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon:
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Best of 2019 mixtape
12/30/2024
Best of 2019 mixtape
Help us celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast by going back to the beginning! This mixtape’s tracklist features some of the best of the show from 2019, Every episode can be found on our channels and will be listed on TRN-KREZ Nick Estes - Abolishing Columbus & Indigenous resistance On hybrid wars w/ Vijay Prishad White terror, Las Vegas, & Paiute homelands w/ Kristen Simmons What is wild? Manoonim (wild rice) harvesting w/ Courtney & Kathy The Coup against Evo Morales w/ Ben Norton Labour's defeat & Brexit, an Irish perspective w/ Eugene McCartan Destroying the Pilgrim mythology w/ Mahtowin Munro & Kisha James Anti-Imperialism w/ Manu Karuka, Christina Heatherton, & Lara Kiswani GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon:
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Palestine, Minneapolis, and the Urgent Word
12/23/2024
Palestine, Minneapolis, and the Urgent Word
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes recently took part in this in Minneapolis organized by the Palestine Festival of Literature and Mizna. This episode features selections from the different presentations. Follow the link below to watch the entire event. "Join the and for a powerful evening of performance and thought-provoking discussion, in PalFest’s first-ever event in Minneapolis. We will be joined by Mosab Abu Toha, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Sarah Aziza, Danez Smith, Nick Estes, Sagirah Shahid, and Dina Omar. These renowned poets and thinkers will explore the influence of the written word and discuss the role of literary workers in the US as the genocide of Palestinians remains underway and Trump returns to the White House." Watch the here on the Palfest YouTube channel Get your copy of Refaat Alareer's (2024) GoFundMe: Patreon: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:
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Nick Estes on the new Hulu documentary on Anna Mae Aquash
12/23/2024
Nick Estes on the new Hulu documentary on Anna Mae Aquash
recently invited TRN Podcast host Nick Estes to their to discuss the new Hulu documentary on the murder of Annie Mae Aquash. Watch the on the Black Liberation Media YouTube channel GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon:
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Twas the night before the myth of Thanksgiving
12/19/2024
Twas the night before the myth of Thanksgiving
*Note: This is a preview of the latest of The Red Nation Podcast. Sign up for as little as $2 a month to access this and hundreds of hours of bonus episodes and help support the show. You can watch the episode in its entirety for free on our YouTube channel* Bonus episode! Join comrades Maira, Levi, Demetrius, and Justine, all returning to the show for a reflection on National Day of Mourning and the importance of establishing a counter-narrative against so-called Thanksgiving. This episode was recorded on November 27, 2024, on the night before National Day of Mourning. Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast GoFundMe: Patreon: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:
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I'll be damned - Year in Review 2024
12/16/2024
I'll be damned - Year in Review 2024
Comrades Justine, Melanie, Nick, Demetrius, and newcomer to the podcast Tåddong Gogue do a deep dive into some of the big stories of 2024. **Producer's note: Our recording software, Podcastle, lost D's track. We apologize to D and to our listeners for this. We promise to have him back on soon** This is only a portion of the conversation. Subscribe to Red Media on Patreon to listen to the or watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel for free. We are running our fundraiser through the end of the year, empower Red Media by supporting our GoFundMe! GoFundMe Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Thank you for supporting Red Media!
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It's not all about the sheep: RPH on Rez Ball (2024)
12/09/2024
It's not all about the sheep: RPH on Rez Ball (2024)
Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz discuss Sydney Freeland's . Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel GoFundMe Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: The Red Nation Podcast is produced by and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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National Day of Mourning 2024
12/02/2024
National Day of Mourning 2024
The Red Nation attended this year’s 55th annual National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts. In 1970, Indigenous people and organizations of New England and the American Indian Movement protested at the settler colonial monuments of the Mayflower 2 and Plymouth Rock, disrupting and disproving the myth of so-called Thanksgiving and providing a counter-narrative that cuts the myths of colonization right to the core. Today’s episode is an edited version of the line of speeches from this year’s event. Watch the on the Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Watch our report on our TikTok page and social media platforms! For more information on the event, visit the United American Indians of New England website. Thank you for supporting Red Media during Native American Heritage Month! We are continuing our fundraiser through the end of the year. Empower Red Media this Giving Tuesday! Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024, and the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast, Red Media launched its to gain support for operational costs; please consider contributing. You can also continue to support where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! GoFundMe: Patreon: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:
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Inside the producer's studio
11/25/2024
Inside the producer's studio
TRN Podcast host and producer Justine Teba is joined by her fellow producer Sina Rahmani for a discussion about five years of producing The Red Nation Podcast! Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower this ! Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024, and the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast, Red Media launched its to gain support for operational costs; please consider contributing. You can also continue to support Red Media on , where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! GoFundMe: Patreon: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:
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Western Marxism is not anti-colonial w/ Gabriel Rockhill
11/18/2024
Western Marxism is not anti-colonial w/ Gabriel Rockhill
Gabriel Rockhill is the Director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is the editor of the first English translation of Domenico Losurdo's (2017), a critical analysis of the key role that left-wing intellectuals have historically played in the imperial core undercutting socialist movements around the world. Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:
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"Punishing the powerful": Nick Estes on 2024 US Presidential Election
11/15/2024
"Punishing the powerful": Nick Estes on 2024 US Presidential Election
*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode of The Red Nation Podcast. You can listen to this episode by signing up for as little as $2 a month or watch it for free on our YouTube channel* TRN Podcast host Nick Estes dissects the 2024 US Presidential elections and what they portend for future struggles against US settler colonialism at home and imperialism around the world. Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:
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By the Fire We Carry w/ Rebecca Nagle
11/11/2024
By the Fire We Carry w/ Rebecca Nagle
Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle joins the show to talk about By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land (2024). The book is a centuries-long history and legal thriller, documenting the lead-up to the landmark McGirt Supreme Court decision. Empower Red Media this Native American Heritage Month! Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs; please consider empowering Red Media’s work by contributing. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! GoFundMe: Patreon: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:
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Harris/Walz campaign staffers brutalized Diné at Navajo Nation capitol
11/04/2024
Harris/Walz campaign staffers brutalized Diné at Navajo Nation capitol
Vice presidential candidate for the Democratic Party and Minnesota governor Tim Walz stopped in Window Rock, AZ where snipers lined the monument and three Diné citizens were brutalized by his staffers during the Harris/Walz campaign stop. Navajo Nation president Buu Nygren announced the public event the day before, 10 days before the general election. While standing in the crowd, a Diné woman was continuously harassed by authorities and attacked by a Walz staffer, while another Diné man was brutalized and arrested. Meanwhile, Buu Nygren, President of the Navajo Nation, was getting heckled about his missing Vice President and another woman chanting for Trump in the crowd. It was clear that campaign staffers weren’t clamping down on "disruptors", rather, they were targeting Diné people--on their own homelands--policing anyone who supports Palestine. In this episode, Justine hosts Janene, Kiley, and Koi as they recount their violent removals from the event, and their analyses of Navajo Nation Police, the widespread acceptance of genocide in the Democratic Party, and the blatant disregard for tribal sovereignty during the U.S. presidential elections. Watch original reporting from 10/26/24 on and Support the comrade who was arrested by donating funds on Venmo @Keinfoshop Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! GoFundMe: Patreon: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:
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This Native American Heritage Month consider empowering Red Media ✊🏽🪶
11/02/2024
This Native American Heritage Month consider empowering Red Media ✊🏽🪶
Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous People. Today is the official launch of our to support our operational costs. Please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! Watch the of The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel GoFundMe: Patreon:
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Red Power Hour - Taylor Sheridan doesn't matter
10/28/2024
Red Power Hour - Taylor Sheridan doesn't matter
Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz are joined by Liza Black (Cherokee) to discuss Taylor Sheridan's lucrative career peddling racist settler fantasies. Check out Liza's article, Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! Go Fund Me: Patreon: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:
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What Have We Learned: Israel’s Genocide and Palestine’s Resistance, One Year On
10/21/2024
What Have We Learned: Israel’s Genocide and Palestine’s Resistance, One Year On
asked some of our comrades to reflect on what they had learned witnessing the Zionist genocide fuelled by US support, and Palestinian resistance in Gaza and beyond. These are their reflections. Contributions "Pae ʻĀina—Wide: P.L.O. Style" Kauwila Mahi Settler “Self-Defense” and Native Liberation by Nick Estes "Again, all settlers know is death and destruction" Demetrius Johnson "Every Child Matters From Kamloops to Gaza Uahikea Maile "Revolutionary Acts of Love"Leanne Betasamosake Simpson "The Audacity of Reflection"Dominic Guerrera "A Kanaka Learns Aloha from her Palestinian ʻOhana" Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio "A Matter of Peace and Compassion for Palestine" Ellen Gabriel Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! Go Fund Me: Patreon:
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day vs. Empire
10/14/2024
Indigenous Peoples’ Day vs. Empire
The Red Nation marks Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024 with an online discussion moderated by Red Power Hour's Melanie Yazzie Speakers: Vivi Camacho () Mohammed El-Kurd / Monaeka Flores / & Nick Estes / Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast Next month is the 10th year anniversary of The Red Nation. The Red Nation is excited to announce that we are launching The Red Nation Newsletter, where we will be publishing writing and works related to Indigenous movements and liberation. Please go to our link tree, or look in the chat, to find our newsletter website so you can subscribe and be notified of our official launch. Indigenous Peoples’ Day marks the 5th year anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media also co-published our book The Red Deal. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media is launching its GoFundMe to gain support for its operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work this Indigenous Peoples’ Day. You can also continue to support the Red Media Patreon, where you can gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! The Red Nation Podcast is produced by and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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Breaking news in Tuba City, AZ
10/07/2024
Breaking news in Tuba City, AZ
TRIGGER WARNING: sexual assault September 30, 2024 – Parents of youth attending Tuba City Boarding School organized a community gathering and rally outside the Navajo Police Department to demand justice and answers. Every Child Matters – Community Rally in Tuba City, AZ September 30, 2024 – Parents of youth attending Tuba City Boarding School organized a community gathering and rally outside the Navajo Police Department to demand justice and answers. On September 24, a sixth-grade male teacher was arrested at the school for public sexual indecency after evidence of him masturbating in a classroom was collected by students. An act that had been happening for years. The perpetrator was released approximately 18 hours later, and the students’ families have not been able to receive further details of the investigation. The timing of the incident and rally happened to line up with National Day for Truth and Reconciliation- a national holiday in Canada honoring Indigenous students who never returned home from boarding school and survivors of residential schools. The incident happened at a Bureau of Indian Education boarding school, establishing that these incidents are ongoing and not of the past. These are their demands: Support from the 25th Navajo Nation Council to support a request from families to the BIE demanding a full-scale investigation into the Tuba City Boarding School system to address the misconduct and failures in the school system and provide answers and justice for our children. Accountability from all identified faculty and administration personnel that knew about the abuse, failed to report it or investigate it, and allowed it to continue. Federal charges for the perpetrator to ensure the teacher is held responsible for the harm caused to the students, families, and greater community. Comprehensive solutions to protect every child to ensure their safety. Mental health support for all students and parents affected by this traumatic event. Request a joint session between the HEHSC and Law and Order committees of the Navajo Nation council to hear from the families directly, and work alongside respective Navajo Nation departments for justice. Tracklist: Justine Teba/podcast episode introduction, Starlena Nez/rally opening, KL Chino/interview, Starlena Nez/interview, Kaly Arvizu/interview, Demetrius Johnson/interview, Bijiibah Begaye & KL Chino/rally closing The Red Nation was live-streaming the on our , please subscribe for future live streams. Follow for ! Read the original post Therednation.org The Red Nation Podcast is produced by and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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RPH vs. Last of the Mohicans (pt.1)
09/30/2024
RPH vs. Last of the Mohicans (pt.1)
[Producer's note: This is the first half of a two-part episode! The second half will be released on the Patreon feed early access and on the main feed/YouTube channel next week! Sign up at the link below for as little as $2 a month to get access to other great bonus content and help support Red Media] Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz take on Michael Mann's 1992 big-screen interpretation of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans (1826) in an extra- long double episode! Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is produced by and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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Remembering 1974: Navajo Liberation vs. Farmington
09/23/2024
Remembering 1974: Navajo Liberation vs. Farmington
In 1974, three Navajo men--John Earl Harvey, Herman Dodge Benally, and David Ignacio--were brutally beaten and murdered by white teenage settlers in the bordertown of Farmington, New Mexico. It was an act known as “Indian rolling.” Diné grassroots leaders rose to this injustice by creating the Coalition for Navajo Liberation and the long hot summer of 1974 ensued. The marches and boycotts against the settlement of Farmington would go on to stand prominently in the history of Red Power and heralded future generations of Indigenous resistance. Saturday, September 21, 2024, the march and event Remembering 1974: Paths to Healing was organized by Diné elders who were present in 1974 and in coordination with other Navajo organizations who continue traditions of Indigenous resistance today. ---------------- Tracklist: 01. TRN-KREZ 1680AM Morning Show 02. Chili Yazzie 03. March conclusion 04. Demetrius Johnson 05. Esther Keeswood 06. John Redhouse ---------------- Watch the livestreams of the march and theater event on our ! March live stream: Theater event live stream: The Red Nation Podcast is produced by and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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Leonard Peltier and the murder of Anna Mae Aquash
09/16/2024
Leonard Peltier and the murder of Anna Mae Aquash
Federal prosecutors have attempted to tie Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier to the murder of fellow AIM activist, Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash. It is a frequent allegation that has relied on weak evidence and the charges of paid federal informants. In this episode, TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes looks at several sources of information from key Indigenous activists who knew Leonard Peltier and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash to the FBI’s own knowledge of her murder at the time it happened and federal prosecutors' initial hesitancy to take up the case. Learn more here from at the University of Denver on May 6, 2023. Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: ------ Below is the text of Hank Adams’ 2020 Facebook post, shortly before his passing: Note: Adams is responding to a in which Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde apologizes to Anna Mae Aquash’s family. December 14, 2020 Intellectually dishonest hate-monger Paul DeMain has reignited his campaign to assure denial of any Executive Clemency to LEONARD PELTIER, 76, at any time before Leonard's next scheduled Parole Hearing in Year 2024 with a continued misuse and abuse of the December 1975 gunshot death of ANNA MAE AQUASH and the unconscionable exploitation of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash's children. Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde makes significant points in this 2016 article in which the 1975 Aquash death became the center point in President Barack Obama's decision to deny Clemency to Peltier: “I regret that my statement caused some hurt and pain and I apologize for the pain I caused her [Denise Maloney Pictou] and her family,” said Bellegarde. “That wasn’t my intent.” Bellegarde said he still would like to see Peltier freed. He said the case is a separate issue from AIM’s execution of Aquash. “I called for that (Peltier’s release) because there is an injustice there,” said Bellegarde. “So I will continue to advocate for that.” Bellegarde said two previous AFN national chiefs have made the same call which is also backed by Amnesty International and prominent individuals like the Dalai Lama. Peltier was extradited from Canada to the U.S. in December 1976. Warren Allmand, Canada’s solicitor general at the time of Peltier’s extradition, has since stated the F.B.I submitted false information to have Peltier extradited." DeMain's posting of Aquash daughter Denise Maloney Pictou's December 12, 2020, renewed accusations against Leonard Peltier and DeMain's hated AIM organization [re-Posted here in Comment 1] are the beginning of a campaign to assure that 2020 President-Elect Joe Biden will not grant Executive Clemency to Leonard Peltier. In death and posthumously, Anna Mae has been made a sainted heroine. But between 1972 and November 14, 1975, Anna Mae's ways were AIM's ways. AIM's ways - good and bad - were without qualification or reservation Anna Mae's ways, by choice. At NCAI in November, American Indian Press Association's (AIPA) Richard LaCourse told me of his meeting with Dennis Banks, Leonard Peltier, Kamook Banks, and Anna Mae just before his coming to Portland for NCAI.. Anna Mae then had indicated no distress nor given any indication that she was being held prisoner or against her will. On November 14, 1975, the four AIM "leaders" only broke apart because of the Ontario, Oregon stopping of their [Marlon Brando] recreational vehicle by armed Oregon police. A couple days later, Leonard Peltier was transported (through Franks Landing) from Portland into British Columbia (by associates of mine, who did not inform me then of their activity). He spent the next month in the locale he was taken to and remained incommunicado with U.S. colleagues until later, at least until he traveled to Small Boy's camp in Alberta, Canada. That is where the RCMP and FBI picked up on Leonard - long after Anna Mae Aquash's death in the second week of December 1975. Memorandum in the FBI's Denver Office dated as early as December 19, 1975 disclosed Anna Mae Aquash had been killed - although the FBI would feign ignorance of the death and the corpse identity for more than the next three months. The December 1975 memos identified the killers as John "Boy" Graham, Arlo Looking Cloud, and Theda Nelson Clarke - although none of the three were indicted through the next 28 years. The Looking Cloud trial was held in December 2004; Graham's in 2010 - lapses of 29 and 35 years. Theda Nelson - a likely FBI Informant in December 1975 - (on mental competency findings) did not go to trial. Clark died at age 87 in 2011. Although a lead prosecutor opened the Leonard Peltier trial in Fargo, North Dakota on March 16, 1977 declaring: "AIM is not on trial."; both AIM and Leonard Peltier were made the main 'defendants' in the 2004 and 2010 trials for the killing of Anna Mae Aquash! If there was ever a case where all parties - prosecution, defense and all witnesses - acted in friendly collusion to 'convict' undefended and absent non-parties [1st Leonard Peltier; 2nd AIM] - the Looking Cloud and Graham trials were such cases. The fodder for the trial's conspiratorial claptrap largely was wrung from the mind and imagination of Paul DeMain in his relentless vendetta against AIM leaders and most creatively against Leonard Peltier. Many of his unsubstantiated claims were rejected by author Steven Hendricks when writing "The Unquiet Grave" (2007). DeMain "Timelines" for Anna Mae Pictou have since focused on the AIM Convention in New Mexico just prior to the Jumping Bull Compound deaths of FBI Agents on Pine Ridge on June 26, 1975 leading to the 1977 life sentence convictions of Peltier. The design is intended to prejudice considerations against any grant of parole or clemency for Peltier. Canada's Assembly of First Nation is correct in declaring the "execution" of Anna Mae Aquash and the pursuit of "freedom" for Leonard Peltier on compassionate and humanitarian grounds are "separate issues." They are correct in continuing their support for Executive Clemency through offices of both the Canadian Prime Minister and any U.S. President. What satisfaction can President Elect Biden derive from side-stepping all humanitarian and compassionate considerations for Leonard Peltier through a first term, deferring any favorable consideration to the scheduled Parole Hearing in 2024? The Pardons Office of a bureaucratic and prejudiced Justice Department housing the FBI has already failed the last four Presidents of the United States in this matter! Will retribution finally end if Leonard Peltier is still alive in 2024 and then 80 years old? Indians of Western Washington who transported Leonard Peltier to Canada on or about November 17, 1975, and Indians of British Columbia who hosted and concealed him for the next month or until beyond when the FBI first was informed of Anna Mae's death and the identity of her killers can attest to Leonard's movements and communications (record) that wholly absolve Leonard Peltier of any direct or indirect role in the December 1975 murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash.
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"Ancestors of the Future:" Nick Estes at May Day Books
09/09/2024
"Ancestors of the Future:" Nick Estes at May Day Books
TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes () speaks at marking the of Our History is the Future by Haymarket Books. Recorded by Adam Biel. The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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