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
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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Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena survey the burning tirefire of US imperial decline and ask the perennial question, what is even left to say?
Video edition coming soon!
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TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya, two researchers from the Sakha Republic and hosts of Red Media's newest media project, TYMSYY.
Make sure to check out Sardana's earlier episodes of the show!
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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 2022. 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! Please support the show and gain access to bonus content on the Red Media Patreon!
RPH is back! Cohosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie do a very deep dive reading of Thunderheart (1992).
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**Producer's note: This episode went for an astonishing 2.5 hours -- our longest episode ever! We have released the first hour of the conversation on the free feed, and if you want to listen to the entire episode, become a patron for as little as $2 a month**
Nick Estes was joined by Jared Ware (@jaybeware), host of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, for a livestream conversation...
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by legal scholar Nina Farnia (@NinaFarnia) to discuss America's supposed slide into oligarchic fascism, what remains of the Western "rules-based order," and how the war in Ukraine and the Gaza holocaust have enriched the US ruling class.
Check out her article, "Imperialism in the Making of U.S. Law"
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Celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast with us! This mixtape is a part of our "best of" series and features some of the best of the show from 2021.
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! Empower the show and gain access to bonus content on the Red Media Patreon!
Red Power is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz dissect the fascist assault on institutions of higher learning.
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TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with Diné and Hopi artist and musician JJ Otero about using music to wage resistance.
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TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by journalist Camila Escalante on the rift within Bolivia's socialist movement and the potential return of Evo Morales.
Camila Escalante is the Editor at Kawsachun News and Latin American correspondent for Press TV.
Keep up with their reporting at https://kawsachun.com/ and empower their work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/KawsachunNews
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TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with attorney Natali Segovia, Executive Director of the Water Protector Legal Collective.
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The Red Nation Podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media.
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*Producer's note: This is only the first half of the conversation, which in total stretched almost 2.5 hours! To listen to the second half, please sign up at Patreon.com/redmediapr or you can watch the full episode on our YouTube channel soon!
RPH is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz are joined by TRN comrade Levi Harter to discuss James Cameron's mega-blockbuster (and also mega racist) Avatar series.
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 2020. 2020 was a jammed-packed year of events and content, so we have decided to break up this episode into two parts. Part two will be available on our Patreon later this week! Please support the show and gain access to bonus content on our Patreon!
...TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with Mohammed el-Kurd (@m7mdkurd) about his new book, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (2025)
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Jared A. Ball (@imixwhatilike) is Professor of Africana and Communication Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and host of the iMiXWHATiLiKE! podcast.
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Check out the articles discussed in the episode:
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