The Red Nation Podcast

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 leading experts, community members, and "first responders" to the global issue of self-Indigenization, particularly in the form of "Indigenous ethnic fraud," or "pretendianism," as it is referred to in North America. The symposium will be held in Minneapolis, on the traditional homelands of the Dakota people, who were imprisoned and eventually exiled in 1863 to aid settler appropriation of "Minnesota," a word also taken from the Dakota. On top of seizing land, US citizens have for centuries "played Indian" via sports mascots and appropriating Native nation names and iconography in scouting and in industries including the military. In the twenty-first century, we see ballooning numbers of US citizens make mythological claims to belong to Native lineages and nations. Some capitalize on those claims to appropriate Indigenous resources and opportunities, and to seize governance of institutions. We see an obviously violent example of self-Indigenization in the Department of "Homeland Security" whose agents seize governance of these lands, terrorize, imprison, and threaten to exile. As multiple forms of self-Indigenization converge, not all are grasped as violent, yet they combine to further colonial extraction. Extractive self-Indigenization, including Indigenous ethnic fraud, not only targets American Indians, but also First Nations, Métis, and Inuit in Canada; and global Indigenous communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, and elsewhere. This symposium will bring participants together to engage in critical discussions, learn from one another, and discuss actionable strategies to disrupt this global problem." 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 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 Maricela Rueda's family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-maricelas-family-while-she-fights-for-justice GoFundMe to help Des: https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-artist-des-revol-an-immigration-attorney 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 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 Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

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/ Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

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

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/ Patreonhttps://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 Michael Lujan Bevacqua (Co-Chair, Independent Guåhan) about why Bill 242-38 would erase a Native-Inhabitant–led vote and violate CHamoru self-determination. We cover Guåhan and Micronesia's decolonization history, the ways U.S. citizenship is switched on/off by a militarized agenda, how an Independent Micronesia could shift Guam from being America's "tip of the spear" to a bridge of peace between East and West, and why Indigenous solidarity is more powerful than spam. Submit written or oral testimony before the public hearing. Toolkit with scripts, emails, addresses: https://tinyurl.com/y2kxa38n Sign & share now: https://forms.gle/zEoq7Rf6Jmg32jTS7 → Then submit testimony and call Guam's senators using the COD Toolkit https://tinyurl.com/y2kxa38n 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

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 Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

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 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

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: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

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.com/redmediapr

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://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

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

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 academic theory industry's role in coopting revolutionary Marxist thought and the constellation of forces arrayed against actually existing socialist projects. Get a copy of his book here. Subscribe to his Substack here. 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/redmediapr

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 www.patreon.com/redmediapr

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 to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon www.patreon.com/redmediapr

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 therednation.org Tracklist: TRN-KREZ National Day of Mourning 2024 "Two ways to resist, two ways to die" w/ Max Ajl (pt.1) Not in Our Honor - Press Conference Democrats and the "Dupes" of Empire Red Power Hour - Koba was right Remembering 1974: Navajo Liberation vs. Farmington 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

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 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/redmediapr

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/redmediapr

**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-indigenous-content Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon www.patreon.com/redmediapr

**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/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!** 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 The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

**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 Movement 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

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 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/redmediapr