The Red Nation Podcast

The 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee by Oglalas and the American Indian Movement was a watershed moment. February 27, 2023 is the 50th anniversary of the historic takeover. This episode features the personal and family histories of Madonna Thunder Hawk and Bill Means—a story told by the Wounded Knee participants themselves about the importance of the American Indian Movement. Support  www.patreon...

Red Media is ecstatic to announce the launch of Freedom to Read! Join Kiley and Justine as they discuss the history of Red Media and how Freedom to Read has come to fruition. Freedom to Read is Red Media's book program to get Red & rad books into the hands of Indigenous communities. Freedom to Read has worked with Navajo Nation Library, No Name Book Club, grassroots movements, and contributors thr...

The city of Minneapolis wants to demolish a neighborhood warehouse to build a toxic truck yard in the historic Native and immigrant community of East Phillips. Residents are fighting back against the racist environmental pollution, proposing an urban farm instead of rebuilding a truck depot. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel . Rachel Thunder: @rachel_thunder Joe Vit...

  Historian Bhangya Bhukya provides an in-depth analysis of the Indigenous Adivasis of India. Guest hosted by Akash Poyam Second half of the conversation will be published as audio soon but only to Patrons. Sign up for as little as $2 a month to get access to this discussion and other great bonus content.  Alternatively, you can watch the entire episode on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube Channel. ...

A compilation of different clips to mark the International Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier, the oldest living political prisoner. This is the first half of the mixtape. To listen to the entire episode, subscribe to the Anti-Imperialist Archive on your podcatcher.  Check out our Free Leonard Peltier YouTube playlist   More info https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/ Support www.patreon.com/re...

Red Power Hour co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie do a deep dive into the second season of Reservation Dogs. This is a preview of a two-hour-plus-long conversation. Patrons of Red Media can listen to the entire episode as audio or you can watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel . Become a patron for as little as $2 a month by signing up at patreon.co...

We are writing to make a small but significant announcement about our Patreon membership pricing.  As you know, the money we collect through Patreon is used to support the diverse projects of The Red Nation and its media arm, Red Media. We appreciate each and every single donation, and we thank you all sincerely for helping us in our mission to create a Native media platform. When we first launche...

Red Nation comrades Jen Marley, Nick Estes (@nickwestes) and Melanie Yazzie take patron questions. Guest hosted by Justine Teba. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel   This is a preview of the latest bonus episode of The Red Nation Podcast. To listen to/watch the entire AMA, subscribe to our Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support  www.patreon.com/redmediapr      

The first FBI agent close to the Leonard Peltier case is calling for his freedom. Coleen Rowley recounts, in this wide-ranging and exclusive interview, her time as an agent in the Minneapolis field office. For nearly 50 years, the FBI has indoctrinated its agents on a specific version of events that led to Leonard Peltier's arrest, conviction, and imprisonment. The mentality then, Rowley argues, i...

130 years ago today, the US Navy aided the overthrow of the sovereign and independent Hawaiian government. On January 17, 1893, the USS Boston landed in Hawai'i to support a white Euro-American oligarchic overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani. Kānaka Maoli and their anti-imperialist allies continue to mark that day and and the resistance to the ongoing occupation of Hawaiian Islands.  During the first...

Quechua scholars Yojana Miraya Oscco ( @osccomiraya ) and Renzo Aroni talk about the historical context surrounding the far right coup of President Pedro Castillo in Peru and the mass mobilizations fighting back. Police repression has targeted the southern regions, where Yojana and Renzo are from. The violence harkens back to the days of the US-backed dictatorship. The general strike and the deadl...

  The second half of our look back at 2022 with Red Power Hour co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) Watch the  video edition  on The Red Nation Podcast  YouTube channel.  And special thanks to the patrons who contributed!   Support

The co-hosts of The Red Nation Podcast and Red Power Hour reflect on some of the great content published by Red Media in 2022. Featuring an intro by Justine Teba.   Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel And special thanks to the patrons who contributed!   If you can't wait another week to listen to the second half, sign up for as little as $1 a month to access the entir...

The Red Nation Podcast Tour 2022  Join Justine and Kyon in Southern Ute Territory for a tour of Weasel Skin Farms and a conversation with our comrade Randy. This episode includes thunder, rain, goats, ducks, amaranth, corn and also f*ck the Clarks. Watch the documentary   N a t i v e   N a t i o n :   V o i c e s   o f   S u r v i v a l   on Al Jazeera Subscribe to Red Media on Patreon for debrief...

The Red Nation Podcast Tour 2022    During the race for nuclear weapons in the 1960s, the United Nuclear Corporation began operations on the largest underground uranium mine in the country, located on the Navajo reservation in Church Rock, New Mexico. The Church Rock uranium mill spill took place on July 16, 1979, when the uranium mill breached its dam--resulting in the largest nuclear disaster in...

The Red Nation Podcast Tour 2022  Join us in a collaborative effort between Al Jazeera, Black Leaf Films, The Red Nation, and Red Media as Justine and Kyon highlight struggles for liberation in Pueblo, Ute, and Diné territories.  First stop is the Healing and Restoring Ancestral Sites Tour with Elder Kathy Sanchez from Tewa Women United and Beata Tsosi Peña from Breath of My Heart Birthplace . Thi...

The first half of the conversation that Red Power Hour co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) had with TRN comrade Kiley about Wakanda Forever (2022). For just $1, you can become a patron of Red Media and listen to the rest of the conversation-another 45 minutes!-and hours and hours of other great bonus content. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel  ...

*Red Media is proud to announce the launch of our latest project, REDsurgence, a podcast hosted by Riley Yesno.  Subscribe on your podcatcher by clicking here * Uahikea Maile is a Kanaka Maoli professor of Indigenous Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Follow him on Twitter:  @uahikea ---------------------------- Follow REDsurgence on Twitter  @REDsurgence...

Petuuche Gilbert is elder from the Acoma Pueblo who helped found the Laguna and Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment (LACSE) which is one of five core groups in the MultiCultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE). MASE is a consortium of indigenous and environmental justice communities that have been adversely impacted by historic uranium mining and milling in the Grants Uranium Belt. Watch...

*Episode originally posted November 2020* Kisha James and Mahtowin Munro from United American Indians of New England talk about the importance of the National Day of Mourning and destroying 400 years of the Pilgrim mythology.  More info: http://www.uaine.org Watch this year's livestream: https://youtu.be/qB7Vbz0WJXc   Donante https://www.gofundme.com/f/united-american-indians-of-new-england-fall-2...

*Episode originally posted November 2019* LaNada War Jack, a Shoshone Bannock elder and activist, explains her role in the 1969 Alcatraz occupation, a watershed moment in the Red Power movement.  Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

The Leonard Peltier Walk to Justice kicked off in Minneapolis, Minnesota on September 1st, 2022. Ten weeks and 1103 miles later it reached Washington, D.C. where a rally was held demanding the freedom of Leonard Peltier, unjustly imprisoned for over 47 years.   Video edition available here on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel . Find out more: whoisleonardpeltier.info   https://www.facebook.co...

Leonard Peltier is the longest-serving Indigenous political prisoner in the United States. Even the federal prosecutors can't prove Peltier committed the crime of which he's accused. Kevin Sharp, (@KevinHSharp)  a former federal judge appointed by President Obama and Peltier's attorney, lays out the case for clemency and for Leonard Peltier's freedom. Find out more: whoisleonardpeltier.info Suppor...

RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie on the US elections, Land Grab universities, and the unique aspects of white supremacy in the Midwest. Watch the  video edition  on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube  channel.  Please don't forget to like/subscribe/review the show on your preferred platform. Can't get enough RPH content?  Sign up for the Patreon for as little as $1 a month...

TRN co-hosts Nick Estes (@nickwestes) and Jen Marley (@JenMarley1680) spent 2.5 hours responding to patrons' questions. Watch the  video edition  on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube  channel.  Please don't forget to like/subscribe/review the show on your preferred platform. To listen to the second half of the episode and participate in future AMAs, subscribe to the Patreon for as little as $1 a mont...