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
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!
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
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**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 Th...
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
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**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
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**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
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**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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**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
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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)
Watch the video ...
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
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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...
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