The Red Nation Podcast

A preview of some of the great bonus content available to patrons of the show. Sign up for as little as $1 and help support the podcast. Support: patreon.com/therednation  Lakota writer, actor, and comedian Jana Schmieding pulls back the buckskin curtain on the politics of Natives in film and entertainment. In the second part of the interview, we review the Westworld episode "Kiksuya" (2018). Find...

Lakota writer, actor, and comedian Jana Schmieding pulls back the buckskin curtain on the politics of Natives in film and entertainment. In the first part of this interview, we review the final episode "Ghost Dance" in the TNT series Into the West (2005). In the second part of the interview, we review the Westworld episode "Kiksuya" (2018). Ali Nahdee on the "Aila Test": https://www.hcn.org/articl...

Indian writer Arundhati Roy talks about her new book of essays, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. This talk was organized by Haymarket Books and the Elliott Bay Book Company. Support: Patreon.com/therednation

Dakota scholar Kim TallBear talks about the end of US empire and what that means for Indigenous people.  She is a regular panelist for the podcast Media Indigena and writes for the Critical Polyamorist .  Support: patreon.com/therednation

Rapper and activist Noname joins us for wide-ranging discussion on celebrity culture, social media, the Black Radical Tradition, and so much more. Check out her work: https://nonamebooks.com   Support: patreon.com/redmediapr

Nick Estes,   author of "Our History is the Future" and co-founder of The Red Nation, joins Breht from Rev Left Radio to discuss the history and legacy of the American Indian Movement, including the history of indigenous resistance in America, the origins and ideology of AIM, the Siege of Wounded Knee in 1973, the FBI's COINTELPRO, the Reign of Terror, and so much more.  This is a collaborative pr...

David Correia, Ernesto Longa, and Selinda Guerrero talk about #AbolishAPD and Albuquerque's participation in Trump's Operation Legend.  More info: www.abolishapd.org Support: patreon.com/therednation

Bolivian journalist Ollie Vargas (@OVargas52) from Kawsashun News  (@KawsaschunNews) returns to the show to discuss the recent uprisings and calls to restore restore democracy in Bolivia. Support Kawsaschun News: https://www.patreon.com/KawsaschunNews

The Red Nation Podcast announces our spinoff series, Red Power Hour hosted by Melanie Yazzie! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast platforms!

Nick Estes interviews historian Phil Deloria about his father's classic book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto . Music: Frank Waln - "My Stone (instrumentals)" More info: https://www.oaklakewriterssociety.com/nativereads-podcast-series #NativeReads: https://www.firstnations.org/nativereads/

Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reads from her forthcoming book debunking the claim that the United States is "a nation of immigrants." Support: Patreon.com/therednation

Tasiyagnunpa Livermont Barondeau interviews Edward Valandra about his book  Not without Our Consent: Lakota Resistance to Termination, 1950-59 .  Music: Frank Waln - "My Stone (instrumentals)" More info: https://www.oaklakewriterssociety.com/nativereads-podcast-series #NativeReads: https://www.firstnations.org/nativereads/

Tasiyagnunpa Livermont Barondeau interviews Edward Valandra about his book  Not without Our Consent: Lakota Resistance to Termination, 1950-59 .  Music: Frank Waln - "My Stone (instrumentals)" More info: https://www.oaklakewriterssociety.com/nativereads-podcast-series #NativeReads: https://www.firstnations.org/nativereads/

Lanniko Lee interviews Monica Braine about  Witness: A Hunkpapha Historian's Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas by Josephine Waggoner. Music: Frank Waln - "My Stone (instrumentals)" More info: https://www.oaklakewriterssociety.com/nativereads-podcast-series #NativeReads: https://www.firstnations.org/nativereads/

Vijay Prashad, the director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research , talks about his new book, Washington Bullets . Support: patreon.com/therednation

Rebecca Nagle , Cherokee journalist and host of the This Land podcast,  breaks down the recent McGirt decision, which found that half of Oklahoma remains an Indian reservation. Support: patreon.com/therednation 

Thoughts and prayers to colonizer statues everywhere. It's time for #LandBack. More info: Monument to Spanish conqueror Oñate comes down in New Mexico: https://kvia.com/news/new-mexico/2020/06/15/monument-to-spanish-conqueror-onate-comes-down-in-new-mexico/   The Supreme Court ruling on Oklahoma was welcome, but Indigenous people deserve more: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/supreme-court-ru...

Gabrielle Tateyuskanskan interviews Kate Beane about the book The Soul of the Indian by Ohiyesa (Dr. Charles Eastman). Music: Frank Waln - "My Stone (instrumentals)" More info: https://www.oaklakewriterssociety.com/nativereads-podcast-series #NativeReads: https://www.firstnations.org/nativereads/

The Lakotas are demanding the removal of Mount Rushmore and the return of the Black Hills. Meanwhile, Trump is planning a July 3 visit to the "Shrine of Democracy," a site Natives have dubbed the "Shrine of Hypocrisy." We speak with Dallas Goldtooth ( @dallasgoldtooth ), co-founder of the comedy group the 1491s and a long-time organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network, about the Keystone...

Journalist @Vinncent talks about his book, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (2020) , which details the history of the Indonesian extermination program against communists & its roots in settler colonialism in the Americas. Support: Patreon.com/therednation 

Unlocked from behind the paywall  Nyla Matuk talks about the volume of First Nations poetry she edited, Resisting Canada: An Anthology of New Poetry (2019) , and the ongoing and intertwined legacies of Canadian, US, and Israeli settler colonialism. This episode was released in remembrance of the Nakba (the catastrophe) on May 15. Subscribe to the show's patreon to access more epsiodes like this ww...

Filmmaker & journalist Dominique Remy ( @CanaryFilmmaker ) talks about "pre-existing conditions" of white supremacy that structures Black, Indigenous, & Latinx reproductive health. Support her film: https://www.gofundme.com/f/maternal-mortality-documentary-film-fund Support: https://www.patreon.com/therednation  

In light of the Black-led revolt, Devyn Springer ( @HalfAtlanta ), journalist and host of the Groundings podcast , talks race, class, decolonization, and so much more. Support: patreon.com/therednation 

Settler fascist militias are on the rise, targeting Black and Indigenous people in New Mexico. Follow @abq161  for updates on NM anti-fascist organizing. Read our statement on #BlackLivesMatter: http://therednation.org/2020/06/15/ statement-of-solidarity-with-blacklivesmatter /   Free Clifton White, the Black organizer targeted by racist police: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/free-clifton-whi...

Interview with journalist Nina Lahkani on her new book Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender's Battle for the Planet  Buy the book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3180-who-killed-berta-caceres Support: patreon.com/redmediapr