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/
Episodes
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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
Em...
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 YouT...
**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 ...
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 k...
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.
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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.
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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)
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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
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Comrade Justine joins Radio Tomada at the 2025 Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival to explain the work of Red Media and The Red Nation.
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TRN Podcast host Nick Estes hosts a solo episode on the US imperialist doctrine of "Manifest Destiny."
Check out Moussa al-Sadah's article "Palestinian Peoples: on Disintegration and the Conditions for Intifada Palestinian Peoples: on Disintegration and the Conditions for Intifada"
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A special screening event hosted by the DSA in Santa Fe, NM for local charitable causes included a panel of special guests on the film How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) in which a group of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.
Hosted by actor Jasper Keen, with special guest panelists including Alma Castro, Santa Fe City Councilor; Elena Ortiz, Co-Host of the Red Power Hour on The Red Nat...
***TRN Podcast host Nick Estes did an episode with producer Sina Rahmani for an episode on his new SubStack project, Red Scare. This is a preview. To listen/watch the entire episode, subscribe to Red Scare***
Nick Estes in conversation with TRN Podcast producer and host of The East is a Podcast Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist) explore what John Carpenter’s They Live (1988) can teach us how the ruling class uses ideaology to govern o...
The third and final livestream of the book tour celebrating the publication of Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s
Hosted by Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie at the Inspired Moments Event Center Farmington, New Mexico.
Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel
"From the late summer of 1972 to the late ...
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes welcomes back comrade, colleague, and oft-returning guest of the show Alex Aviña to discuss the Trump regime's widening attack on higher education and how it is being waged through a class of neoliberal administrators largely identifying as Democrats.
Alex is the author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside
Check out Anti-Imperialists.com
Video edition coming...
The John Redhouse book tour makes its way to Albuquerque where comrades from Red Nation, Dr. Jennifer Denetdale and Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie join author John Redhouse to discuss his new book, Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s
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"From the la...
Red Media Press and Common Notions are proud to announce our second co-publication!
Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s by legendary warrior John Redhouse is a one-of-a-kind lyrical and fast-paced memoir of the frontlines and trenches of Native liberation in the Four Corners and Southwest in the 1970s.
This episode is a recording of the first in a series of events cele...
***Producer's note: This is a preview of the latest episode of Kuskalla, a trilingual (Quechua-Spanish-English) podcast produced by Red Media and hosted by our comrades Yojana Miraya Oscco and Renzo Aroni. Listen to the full episode on the Kuskalla podcast feed***
In this episode, I talked with Jonathan Ritter, who is the Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Chair of the De...
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes interviews Allen Brown (@AlleenBrown) from Drilled and Tristan Ahtone (@Tahtone) from Grist about their investigation into the legal war waged on the Standing Rock Water Protectors and their allies years after the end of the encampments.
Check out Tristan's article
"A court ordered Greenpeace to pay a pipeline company $660M. What happens next?"
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**Note: This episode was recorded before the American aggression on Iranian nuclear facilities**
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by guests Nina Farnia (@ninafarnia) and Ali Alizadeh (@ali7adeh) to discuss the Zionist aggression on Iran and the looming specter of the US joining the war.
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Check out Nina's recent article, "The Iranian-American Intelligentsia in U...
Red Power Hour is back! RPH co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena discuss Ryan Coogler's new horror film, Sinners (2025)
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