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**The Red Nation Podcast**

The Red Nation Podcast features discussions on Indigenous history, politics, and culture from a left perspective. Hosted by Nick Estes and Jen Marley with help from our friend and comrade Sina. The Red Nation Podcast is also the home of Red Power Hour, hosted by Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz.

Our show is entirely supported by our patrons on Patreon, support the show and get access to bonus content and other patron exclusive benefits here: Patreon.com/redmediapr

Website: therednation.org

Follow the hosts on Twitter @nickwestes and @JenMarley1680 and the Red Nation @The_Red_Nation.

Theme song: “Dead Horse” by Weedrat https://weedrat.bandcamp.com/

Latest Episodes:

"The Truth is Not Out There": RPH vs. Disclosure Day (2026) Jul 13, 2026

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RPH is back!!! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz discuss Steven Spielberg's latest summer blockbuster.

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What Indigenous People Think of the 250th: The First America Podcast Series w/ Rebecca Nagle Jul 06, 2026

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TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks to returning guest and friend of the show Rebecca Nagle about her new podcast series, First America.

Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channelhttps://youtu.be/A7nl1X_XwAg

NOTE: WE ARE REPUBLISHING THE FIRST EPISODE OF THE SERIES ALONGSIDE THIS EPISODE. DESCRIPTION BELOW

Native people have been written out of the American story, but without us you don't know what happened. This summer the United States will celebrate the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. When you read the Declaration, you realize it is a list of complaints. The last entry, the climax in our founders' reasons for rebellion against the Crown, is this: "He has excited… the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."

We have been told the Revolution was fought over taxation and representation. But what the founders were most angry about in our country's most famous document was Indian affairs. How did generations of Americans miss this?

The first armed rebellion against the Crown was an attack on British forts that traded with tribes. When colonists threw tea into the Boston harbor, they dressed up like members of the Mohawk tribe—not for disguise, but because pretending to be Indian symbolized freedom and rebellion. The founding fathers' first government failed because Indigenous nations were too powerful; war and diplomacy with Native people is why we have a central federal government.

Hosted and reported by Rebecca Nagle and featuring leading Native historians, First America unveils how the founders' treatment of Indigenous nations—and their resistance—shaped US democracy. The show does not simply add another blemish to the image of the founding fathers, it reveals the real story of why the colonists rebelled, what kind of government they created, and, crucially, how our current political moment was 250 years in the making.

FirstAmerica.info

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First America S3.E1: Merciless Indian Savages Jul 06, 2026

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"Native people have been written out of the American story, but without us you don't know what happened. This summer the United States will celebrate the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. When you read the Declaration, you realize it is a list of complaints. The last entry, the climax in our founders' reasons for rebellion against the Crown, is this: "He has excited… the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."

Hosted and reported by Rebecca Nagle and featuring leading Native historians, First America unveils how the founders' treatment of Indigenous nations—and their resistance—shaped US democracy. The show does not simply add another blemish to the image of the founding fathers, it reveals the real story of why the colonists rebelled, what kind of government they created, and, crucially, how our current political moment was 250 years in the making."

FirstAmerica.info

We have a planet to save! The Red Deal 5th Anniversary Jun 29, 2026

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An all-star cast of hosts, friends, and comrades take part in this extra-long episode commemorating the 5-year anniversary of The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth.

Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtube.com/live/urroZOLfdW4

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Colonialism is the Angel of Death: RPH vs. Exposure (2024) Jun 22, 2026

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RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie discuss Ramona Emerson's Exposure (2024)

Check out our earlier episode on Ramona's previous novel, Shutter (2022)

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Say NO to Magellan Pipeline w/Mark Tilsen Jun 14, 2026

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Mark Tilsen, Oglala Lakota Poet Educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, returns to the show to discuss the Megellan Pipeline. Watch the video edition on our YouTube channelhttps://youtu.be/WNF9_v2zpAo

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Revolution "Betrayed"? What's Really Happening in Venezuela? w/Cira Pascual Marquina & Chris Gilbert Jun 08, 2026

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Since the illegal U.S. abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, Global North commentators have rushed to declare the Bolivarian Revolution betrayed or defeated. The recent extradition of Alex Saab has only intensified these accusations.

In this episode, Chavista intellectuals Cira Pascual and Chris Gilbert discuss Venezuela's new reality and the tendency of Global North observers to interpret the Bolivarian process through abstract ideological schemas rather than its concrete historical development.

Read: "A Great Leap into Reality: Venezuela Today" by Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina: https://mronline.org/2026/05/28/a-great-leap-into-reality-venezuela-today/

Cira Pascual Marquina is a popular educator at the Pluriversidad, El Panal Commune's educational initiative in the working-class barrio of 23 de Enero in Caracas. She is also a founder and member of the Communal Democracy Network.

Chris Gilbert is a professor of political studies at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, contributing editor at Monthly Review magazine, and the author of Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project (Monthly Review, 2023), among other books and articles.

Gilbert and Pascual Marquina are the creators and hosts of Escuela de Cuadros, a Marxist educational television program and podcast. They are coauthors of Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution (Monthly Review, 2020) and the book series Resistencia comunal frente al bloqueo imperialista (Observatorio Venezolano Antibloqueo, 2021–2026).

Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/to_O4ypFz9o

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(How badly) did the US lose to Iran? w/ Sina Rahmani Jun 04, 2026

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Nick Estes conversation with Sina Rahmani, producer of The Red Nation Podcast and host of The East is a Podcast, discussing not only the historic failure of the ZioAmerican imperialist war machine to achieve their stated war aims of toppling Iran's government, but also Iran's equally historic upending of the American siege around the country through so-called "sanctions." Watch the livestream edition on our YouTube channel https://youtube.com/live/QDdeA8H7ReA

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RPH - Learning what we already know Jun 01, 2026

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RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie discuss Cannupa Hanska Luger's Surviva: A Future Ancestral Field Guide (2025), a hybrid art piece/survival manual exploring indigenous futurism, decolonization, and relationality through redacted military text and Indigenous artwork.

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Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization A Hybrid Symposium (Panel 3) May 25, 2026

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Producer's note: We are releasing the audio edition of one panel of the conference TRN Podcast host Nick Estes helped organize. You can watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel. We had some technical difficulties at the beginning of this panel so the recording start shortly after Nick began his introduction. Our apologies!

Symposium Introduction & Framing - Self-indigenization as a Global Problem: Towards Institutional Verification Procedures

Panel 3: Odanak Abenaki Tribal Council on Self-Indigenization in Vermont

Moderator: Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux Tribe), Associate Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota

Panelists:

Daniel G. Nolett (Abenaki of Odanak), Executive Director, Odanak Abenaki Tribal Council, "Overview of Abenaki History and Families"
Jacques T. Watso (Abenaki of Odanak), Elected Councillor, Abenaki Abenaki Tribal Council, "Origins of Vermont 'Abenaki' State Recognition"
Tim de la Bruere (Abenaki of Odanak), Vermont Resident, "A Vermont View of the Fake Abenaki Tribes"
Suzie O'Bomsawin (Abenaki of Odanak), Assistant Executive Director, Odanak Abenaki Tribal Council, "Recent Abenaki Political and Legal Strategies"
Darryl Leroux, Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, "The Harms of Academic Pretendians: Analyzing Lisa Brooks' Work Legitimizing the Fake Abenaki"

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