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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:

RPH vs. Powwow Highway (1989) Oct 27, 2025

Show notes

**Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!**

RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie return to discuss Powwow Highway (1989)

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Still breaking the siege on Gaza w/ David Adler Oct 20, 2025

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**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:

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Indigenous Peoples' Day 2025 Mixtape Oct 13, 2025

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**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

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Mapping deportations w/ Mariah Tso and Kelly Lytle Hernández Oct 06, 2025

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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

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"A true warrior" : Debrief of the John Redhouse book tour Sep 29, 2025

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**Producer's note. As listeners know, this summer Red Media was proud to organize a book tour celebrating the publication of John Redhouse's book, Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories in the Four Corners: The Turbulent 1970s. As part of the tour, TRN comrades recorded a bonus episode for patrons to reflect on the tour and what they learned from John in person. Unfortunately, in the tumult of the summer, I completely forgot to work on the episode! My apologies to you all and the TRN comrades who recorded it. I decided to unlock the episode and put it on the free feed. I hope you enjoy it; it's a fantastic conversation.**

TRN Comrades got together shortly after the end of the John Redhouse book tour to discuss their experiences.

Don't forget to check out the earlier episodes documenting various events of the tour and also get the book from Common Notions!

Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcas YouTube channel

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Ritual Human Sacrifice: Normalizing Genocide in Gaza Sep 22, 2025

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Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of genocidal violence, including racist incitement from Zionist figures and accounts from victims of extremely brutal sexual violence **Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!**

A new UN report confirms what the world has known for the last 23 months: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. This solo episode from TRN Podcast host Nick Estes breaks down the report and asks the larger questions: How did we get here? And if we've normalized this crime, what comes next?

Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel

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Oñate: the Zombie Conquistador symbol that just won't die w/ Christina Castro Sep 15, 2025

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Red Power Hour co-host Elena Ortiz speaks with Christina Castro from the Three Sisters Collective about the pageantry and symbols of conquest in Northern New Mexico and why the Hispanic population in northern New Mexico hangs onto these concepts of conquest and whiteness.

Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel

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RPH vs. The Wind and the Reckoning (2022) Sep 08, 2025

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Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz review The Wind and the Reckoning (2022), which dramatizes the colonization of Kanaka Maoli' lands and the Native resistance to it.

Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel

Empower our work:

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Doing American Indian Studies w/ Jerome Clark and Elise Boxer Sep 01, 2025

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TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by Jerome Clark, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at ASU, and Elise Boxer, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute of American Indian Studies at USD, to discuss some critical questions around the future of the discipline of American Indian Studies.

Check out their book, From the Skin: Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis (2025)

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

The Book of Genocide: The Bible and settler colonialism w/ Justin Podur Aug 25, 2025

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TRN Podcast host Nick Estes in conversation with Justin Podur (@justinpodur) from The Anti Empire Project on the role of the Bible and the Book of Joshua in particular in enabling the genocide in Gaza.

Check out Justin's projects:

Personal website: https://podur.org/ Substack: https://justinpodur.substack.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/justinpodur

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

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