The Red Nation Podcast

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes  in conversation with August Nimtz , Professor of Political Science and African American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota. Check out the Minnesota Cuba Committee https://www.facebook.com/MNCubaCmte/ Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/h2-BIkBSXMg Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empow...

Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie sits down with Isabel Lopez to discuss almost a year of community-led resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Lopez was the first community protector to be arrested for protesting a violent ICE raid in a neighborhood of color in South Minneapolis in June 2025. Lopez is one of over 300 community protectors facing state and f...

TRN Podcast Nick Estes live in conversation with Kim TallBear about the conference they organized,   Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization .   You can watch the individual panels that were livestreamed  on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKWiQX270BMoLRv25dDskRfsJ2pptPf3Z Conference description: "This two-day, hybrid symposium will convene...

Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie hosts a conversation with Kelsey Fryman and Cloud Runner, and Kristen on the Prairieland 19, a group of Anti-ICE protestors who have been incarcerated for months on fabricated charges of supporting terrorism. DFW Support Committee:   https://prairielanddefendants.com/  Legal Defense Fund:  https://www.givesendgo.com/supportDFWprotestors GoFundMe to help Marice...

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live in conversation with Sina Rahmani, host of The East is a Podcast and producer of The Red Nation Podcast, on the wider context of the Ramadan War and what is at stake in this historic confrontation.  Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe to The R...

RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie tackle the almost three-decade-old classic, Smoke Signals (1988),the first major motion picture written, directed, and acted all by Native people.   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/r...

RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie tackle the latest installment of the Avatar franchise.  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

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live in conversation with longtime friend of the show Alex Aviña ( @alexander_Avina ) and Oswaldo Zavala ( @oswaldo__zavala ), the author of  Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture Follow Nick on Substack https://nickestes.substack.com Watch the livestream edition  on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https...

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live in conversation with Charisse Burden-Stelley. 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 https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

URGENT: Sign now to oppose Bill 242-38; the hearing is happening as this episode drops.  Petition: https://forms.gle/ zEoq7Rf6Jmg32jTS7 Note: The recording took place 24 hours before the public hearing at the Guam Congress Building on Bill 242-38. Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie and TRN comrade Tåhdong talk with Melvin Won Pat-Borja (Executive Director, Guam Commission on Decolonization) and...

RPH is BACK! Amy Bowers-Cordalis joins RPH Co-host Elena Ortiz to talk about her new book , the liberation of the Klamath River and her family's contributions to that struggle. This is a story of hope and triumph. 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 Natio...

Operation Metro Surge is just two months old. In this episode, TRN Podcast host Nick Estes examines the recent history and the historic community resistance against the deadly and traumatic federal invasion. Fort Snelling: The Advance Guard of Federal Invasion Since 1805: https://racketmn.com/fort-snelling-the-advance-guard-of-federal-invasion-since-1805 Watch the video edition on The Red Nation P...

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...