The Red Nation Podcast

Turtle Island is rising up! #ReconciliationisDead, #WetsuwetenStrong blockades, Tohono O'odham resist the border wall, settler elections, & Palestine! Red Nation comrades Orien LongKnife (@beshnez) & Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) join the conversation. Support patreon.com/redmediapr

In this wide-ranging interview, award-winning Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle (@rebeccanagle) debunks myths surrounding Cherokee history, culture, and people — and why these tropes have devastating consequences for all Native people. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Dr. Karla Tait is a member of the Gilseyhu Clan of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation and a trained psychologist who specializes in decolonizing healing. In this interview, she gives a historical and cultural context to the mass Indigenous uprising #WetsuwetenStrong that is rocking so-called Canada. She was arrested alongside other Indigenous matriarchs protecting Wet'suwet'en territory after police violently raided Unist'ot'en Camp this month. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood Support Unis'tot'en Camp: https://unistoten.camp

Onyesonwu joins us for a report-back from recent African and Indigenous delegations to Venezuela, and why the Bolivarian Revolution is leading at the forefront of the global anti-imperialist movement. Onyesonwu is an organizer with the All African People's Revolutionary Party and the All African Women's Revolutionary Union as well as an editor with Hood Communist. Read the Final Declaration of the World Conference Against Imperialism: http://hoodcommunist.org/2020/02/06/final-declaration-of-the-world-meeting-against-imperialism/ Read the Declaration of the First International Gathering of Indigenous Peoples: https://therednation.org/2020/01/11/declaration-of-the-first-international-gathering-of-indigenous-peoples-guayana-venezuela-oct-31-2019/ Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Bolivian journalist Ollie Vargas (@Ovargas52) talks about upcoming Bolivian elections and the organized Indigenous resistance against the fascist coup. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Sicangu Lakota elder writer Lydia Whirlwind Soldiers talks about her first book of poetry Memory Songs, the Lakota language, and writing English. This talk was part of a series of talks celebrating Oceti Sakowin writers of the Oak Lake Writers Society: https://olws.squarespace.com. For more bonus episodes like this, support the show on patreon. www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Our first monthly show Red Power Hour features Red Nation members talking about the Red Deal: End the Occupation & Heal Our Bodies. In loving memory of Wake-Self (1989-2019) Music: Frank Waln - "What makes the red man red? (Instrumentals)" Frank Waln - "My people come from the land"

Lisa and Arlo sat down with us at their kitchen table, sharing the fun side of Indigenous food sovereignty and Lakota knowledge. Support patreon.com/redmediapr

Martin Luther King Jr connects US imperialism and war-making in Vietnam to the violent racism and impoverishment of Black and colonized people within the United States. Music: "Another Holy Man" - Floyd Westerman Red Crow (1988)

Trump's militarizing the US-Mexico border. Tohono O'odham jurist Nellie Jo David explains complicity of both parties in this project and its connection to Israeli settler colonialism. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr Show art by Hop David: https://www.deviantart.com/hop41/gallery