The Red Nation Podcast

Jared A. Ball (@imixwhatilike ) is Professor of Africana and Communication Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and host of the i MiXWHATiLiKE! podcast. Watch the video edition or the livestream on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Check out the articles discussed in the episode: " Imperialism and White Settler Colonialism in Marxist Theory" by   John Bellamy Foster "Logics of...

**Warning: discussions of violence and abuse towards children** RPH is back! Red Power co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz are joined by TRN comrade Shelly to discuss the Academy Award-nominated documentary Sugarcane (2024)  about an Indigenous community on the Williams Lake Indian Reservation in present-day British Columbia. Watch the video edition  on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel R...

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 video edition  on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our media work:  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/...

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes  (@nickwestes ) speaks to susan abulhawa (@susanabulhawa ), Palestinian author and Executive Director of  Palestine Writes , the only North American literature festival dedicated to celebrating and promoting cultural productions of Palestinian writers and artists. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our media work:  GoFundMe: https:...

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 The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance and The Anti-Capitalist Resistance. Check out his piece,  "Statement on Leonard Peltier's Clemency and the Case of Annie Mae Aquash...

**Producer's note:  This is a portion of the conversation. Listen to the entire conversation 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  (@dead.pioneers) Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our media work:  GoFundMe: https://www.g...

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 t...

*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: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

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 l...

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 video edition on The Red Nation YouTube channel; don't forget to like and subscribe! Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.theredna...

TRN podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes ) is joined by Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel (@ellengabriel1 ) and Sean Carleton (@SeanCarleton ) 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...

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 therednation.org     TRN-KREZ  Nick Estes - Abolishing Columbus & Indigenous resistance  On hybrid wars w/ Vijay Prishad  White terror, Las Vegas, & Paiute homelands w/ Krist...

Black Liberation Media  recently invited TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes)  to their ReMix Morning Show  to discuss the new Hulu documentary on the murder of Annie Mae Aquash. Watch the video edition  on the Black Liberation Media YouTube channel GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org...

  TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes)  recently took part in this live event  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 Palestine Festival of Literature  and Mizna  for a powerful evening of performance and thought-provoking discussio...

*Note: This is a preview of the latest bonus episode 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 o...

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  full epi...

Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz discuss Sydney Freeland's Rez Ball (2024) . Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/   The Red Nation Podcast is produced by  Red Media  and is sustained by comrades...

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 coloni...

TRN Podcast host and producer Justine Teba is joined by her fellow producer Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)  for a discussion about five years of producing The Red Nation Podcast! Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel 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....

Gabriel Rockhill  (@GabrielRockhill) 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  Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn (2017) , a critical analysis of the key role that left-wing intellectuals have historically played in the imperial core u...

*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 (@nickwestes)  dissects the 2024 US Presidential elections and what they portend for future struggles against US settler colonialism at home and imperialism around the world. Wat...

Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle (@rebeccanagle)  joins the show to talk about  her recently released book,   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 coll...

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...

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 GoFundMe campaign  to support our operational costs. Please consider empowering Red Media's work. Y...

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,  "On 'Yellowstone,' and the white desire to control the narrative"  Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of T...