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, 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...

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-content...

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.gofundme.co...

***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...

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:  G...

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 Alex is a comedian and unpublished writer from the Heiltsuk and Nisga'a nations in Northern B.C.  His free educationals, writing, videos and podcast features can be found in this document.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 Substack...

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-indigen...

***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...

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.therednatio...

***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...

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.or...

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

"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...

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 channel https://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...

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...

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

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 channel https://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.co...

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...

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 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...

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-indigen...

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 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...

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...

**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 e...