The Red Nation Podcast

RPH co-host Melanie Yazzie continues our series of frontline reports from Minneapolis. In this episode, Melanie speaks to Rachel Thunder from the Indigenous Protector Movement and NDN's Lorenzo Serna. 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...

Red Power Hour is back! The RPH crew discusses the fascist attack on Minneapolis by ICE and the mass mobilization against it. Joining co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz is TRN comrade Demetrius Johnson. 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...

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with the Indigenous Protector Movement on what's happening in Minneapolis. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPscledAlaA 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:/...

**TRN Podcast host Nick Estes did an episode with the folks over at Left Reckoning on the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro** " Nick Estes , historian, author, and co-host of The Red Nation Podcast answers the question: Is the Venezuela invasion an Indian War? Read  Nick's piece here " Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel   Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofun...

Producer's note: We are reposting the most recent episode of  Red Scare,  TRN Podcast host Nick Estes' new(ish) media project.  It is a very long episode on a new book by returning guest Gabriel Rockhill on the history of Western Marxism. We hope you enjoy it!  This is an intellectual world war. Gabriel Rockhill joins us to discuss his new book,  Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?  We discuss...

The Red Media family came together to discuss the tirefire that was 2025. Thank you from the entire Red Media podcast team and looking forward to more in 2026! 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.therednation.org/ Patreon...

Join TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live in conversation with Christine McCleave to discuss Indigenous spirituality and the psychedelic industry. Check our Christine's website for more information  https://christinemccleave.com Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe...

Red Power Hour is back!!! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena discuss Taylor Sheridan's  Wind River   (2017).  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

Celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast with us! This mixtape is a part of our "best of" series. This tracklist features some of the best of the show from the year 2024. Part two will be available on our Patreon as patron-exclusive content! Much gratitude to our patrons who have kept the show alive these past five years! Every episode can be found on our channels and will be listed on there...

Join TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live with members of the International Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America. 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.therednation.org/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

**Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!** Chris La Tray joins TRN Podcast host Nick Estes in studio to discuss his latest book, Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home. He talks about the complexities of Indigenous family and tribal histories and fighting back against Indigenous erasure in this moment of backlash. Check out his Substack, An Irritable Métis Watch the video edit...

Elise Boxer returns to the show for a livestream conversation about her new book, Mormon Settler Colonialism: Inventing the Lamanite (2025) Watch the livestream 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.therednation.org/ Patreon www.patreon.com/...

  **Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!** RPH is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz discuss Chief of War (2025), a Hawaiian historical drama series created by Thomas Paʻa Sibbett and Jason Momoa for Apple TV. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/2d6lpI6QbRc Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indi...

  **Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!** Fida Jiryis is a Palestinian writer, scholar. and translator of The Foundations of Zionism (2025) by her father, Sabri Jiryis.  Check our her memoir, Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home (2022)  Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/...

**Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!**   RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie return to discuss Powwow Highway (1989)   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

**Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!**   David Adler (@davidrkadler) from Progressive International returns to The Red Nation Podcast to talk with host Nick Estes about his experiences on the Global Sumud Flotilla ! 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 Th...

**Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!**   Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day 2025 from Red Media! Track List 1. Introduction / Justine  2. Indigenous Peoples' Day vs. Empire Pt. 1  3. City of Albuquerque proclamation of Indigenous Peoples' Day  4. IPD 2021 - Pueblo Elders Panel 5. IPD 2022 - Ké Infoshop 6. Indigenous Peoples' Day vs. Empire Pt. 2  7. IPD 2023 - Wael Omar/Palestinian Youth Moveme...

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with Mariah Tso and Kelly Lytle Hernández with scholars behind  mappingdeportations.com . Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA. Mariah Tso is a Diné Cartographer and GIS Specialist with the Million Dollar Hoods (MDH) Project at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. Watch the video ed...

**Producer's note.  As listeners know, this summer Red Media was proud to organize a book tour celebrating the publication of John Redhouse's book, Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories in the Four Corners: The Turbulent 1970s. As part of the tour, TRN comrades recorded a bonus episode for patrons to reflect on the tour and what they learned from John in person. Unfortunatel...

Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of genocidal violence, including racist incitement from Zionist figures and accounts from victims of extremely brutal sexual violence **Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!** A new UN report confirms what the world has known for the last 23 months: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. This solo episode from TRN Podcast host  Nick Estes br...

Red Power Hour co-host Elena Ortiz speaks with Christina Castro from the Three Sisters Collective about the pageantry and symbols of conquest in Northern New Mexico and why the Hispanic population in northern New Mexico hangs onto these concepts of conquest and whiteness. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empowe...

Red Power Hour is back!  Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz review The Wind and the Reckoning (2022), which dramatizes the colonization of Kanaka Maoli' lands and the Native resistance to it. 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: ht...

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by Jerome Clark , Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at ASU, and Elise Boxer, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute of American Indian Studies at USD, to discuss some critical questions around the future of the discipline of American Indian Studies. Check out their book,  From the Skin: Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theo...

  TRN Podcast host Nick Estes in conversation with Justin Podur ( @justinpodur ) from The Anti Empire Project on the role of the Bible and the Book of Joshua in particular in enabling the genocide in Gaza. Check out Justin's projects: Personal website: https://podur.org/ Substack: https://justinpodur.substack.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/justinpodur Watch the video edition on The Red...

Comrade Justine joins Radio Tomada at the 2025 Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival to explain the work of Red Media and The Red Nation.   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