The Red Nation Podcast features discussions on Indigenous history, politics, and culture from a left perspective. Hosted by Nick Estes and Jen... more
Red Media Press and Common Notions are proud to announce our second co-publication! Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories:... more
The John Redhouse book tour makes its way to Albuquerque where comrades from Red Nation, Dr. Jennifer Denetdale and Red... more
***Producer's note: This is a preview of the latest episode of Kuskalla, a trilingual (Quechua-Spanish-English) podcast produced by Red Media... more
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes interviews Allen Brown (@AlleenBrown) from Drilled and Tristan Ahtone (@Tahtone) from Grist about their investigation... more
**Note: This episode was recorded before the American aggression on Iranian nuclear facilities** TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined... more
Red Power Hour is back! RPH co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena discuss Ryan Coogler's new horror film, Sinners (2025) Watch... more
Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena survey the burning tirefire of US imperial decline and ask... more
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya, two researchers from the Sakha Republic and... more
Celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast with us! This mixtape is a part of our "best of" series.... more
RPH is back! Cohosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie do a very deep dive reading of Thunderheart (1992). Watch the video... more
**Producer's note: This episode went for an astonishing 2.5 hours -- our longest episode ever! We have released the first... more
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by legal scholar Nina Farnia (@NinaFarnia) to discuss America's supposed slide into... more
Celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast with us! This mixtape is a part of our "best of" series... more
Red Power is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz dissect the fascist assault on institutions of higher learning. Watch... more
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with Diné and Hopi artist and musician JJ Otero about using music to wage... more
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by journalist Camila Escalante on the rift within Bolivia's socialist movement and the... more
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with attorney Natali Segovia, Executive Director of the Water Protector Legal Collective. Follow WPLC... more
*Producer's note: This is only the first half of the conversation, which in total stretched almost 2.5 hours! To listen... more
Celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast with us! This mixtape is a part of our "best of" series.... more
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with Mohammed el-Kurd (@m7mdkurd) about his new book, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (2025)... more
Jared A. Ball (@imixwhatilike) is Professor of Africana and Communication Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and host... more
**Warning: discussions of violence and abuse towards children** RPH is back! Red Power co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz are... more
Justine Teba hosts a star-studded Valentine's Day extravaganza exploring the ins and outs of love and resistance in a settler... more
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) speaks to susan abulhawa (@susanabulhawa), Palestinian author and Executive Director of Palestine Writes, the only North... more
A livestream conversation between TRN podcast host Nick Estes and Native comic artist and writer Gord Hill. Gord Hill is... more
**Producer's note: This is a portion of the conversation. Listen to the entire conversation by becoming a Patreon of Red... more
A livestream conversation hosted by TRN Podcast host Nick Estes and prominent members of the Leonard Peltier movement for clemency!... more
*Producer's note: Some of the audio on this episode was recorded under not-so-ideal conditions* Join us in celebrating 10 years... more
In this episode, we speak with Indigenous scholars Dr. Sardana Nikolaeva and Dr. Masha Kardashevskaya about their essays on Indigenous... more
YOTED is back! Comrades Justine and Levi, and East is a Podcast host, Sina, join to discuss the documentary Heaven’s Gate:... more
TRN podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) is joined by Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel (@ellengabriel1) and Sean Carleton (@SeanCarleton) to discuss When... more
Help us celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast by going back to the beginning! This mixtape’s tracklist features... more
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) recently took part in this live event in Minneapolis organized by the Palestine Festival of... more
Black Liberation Media recently invited TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) to their ReMix Morning Show to discuss the new Hulu documentary on... more
*Note: This is a preview of the latest bonus episode of The Red Nation Podcast. Sign up for as little... more
Comrades Justine, Melanie, Nick, Demetrius, and newcomer to the podcast Tåddong Gogue do a deep dive into some of the... more
Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz discuss Sydney Freeland's Rez Ball (2024). Watch the... more
The Red Nation attended this year’s 55th annual National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts. In 1970, Indigenous people and... more
TRN Podcast host and producer Justine Teba is joined by her fellow producer Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) for a discussion about five... more
Gabriel Rockhill (@GabrielRockhill) is the Director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is the... more
*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode of The Red Nation Podcast. You can listen to this episode... more
Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle (@rebeccanagle) joins the show to talk about her recently released book, By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight... more
Vice presidential candidate for the Democratic Party and Minnesota governor Tim Walz stopped in Window Rock, AZ where snipers lined... more
Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The... more
Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz are joined by Liza Black (Cherokee) to discuss Taylor... more
Indigenous for Palestine asked some of our comrades to reflect on what they had learned witnessing the Zionist genocide fuelled by... more
The Red Nation marks Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024 with an online discussion moderated by Red Power Hour's Melanie Yazzie Speakers:... more
TRIGGER WARNING: sexual assault September 30, 2024 – Parents of youth attending Tuba City Boarding School organized a community gathering... more
[Producer's note: This is the first half of a two-part episode! The second half will be released on the Patreon... more
In 1974, three Navajo men--John Earl Harvey, Herman Dodge Benally, and David Ignacio--were brutally beaten and murdered by white teenage... more
Federal prosecutors have attempted to tie Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier to the murder of fellow AIM activist, Anna Mae... more
TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) speaks at May Day Books marking the paperback publication of Our History is the Future by... more
TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) helms a solo episode on the absurd farce of the Democratic National Convention and... more
Justine and another comrade debrief the 2nd. Encounter for a World Social Alternative: From Bolívar to Chávez. At the time... more
The Little Earthers podcasters sat down with elders and residents of Little Earth United Tribes. Vinny Dionne (Turtle Mountain Chippewa),... more
Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz do a deep dive into the ideological underpinnings of... more
This episode covers the radical history of the Twin Cities, which evolved in a unique and dynamic historical conjuncture in... more
Justine Teba and another comrade traveled to Venezuela to observe the 2024 Presidential Elections. In this episode, they discuss the... more
The people of Venezuela are preparing for the presidential election this upcoming Sunday. For years, the corporate media and the... more
September 28, 2023 began in prayer and celebration and ended in an attempted mass shooting by Trump supporter Ryan Martinez.... more
[Producer's note: This is the first hour of the conversation. To listen to the entire episode, join our Patreon for... more
RPH is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz return to discuss the reasons behind their recent hiatus, the right-wing... more
(Note: We had originally planned to keep part two behind the paywall, but there was such an enthusiastic response to... more
(Note: This is the first half of Nick's conversation with Max. For the second half, become a patron of Red... more
Freedom fighters across Turtle Island already know that today is the day of Leonard Peltier’s parole hearing. Leonard is now... more
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) interviews writer and activist Tina Ngata (@tinangata) on the Kanak people's liberation struggle and the recent... more
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) welcomes Nick Tilsen (@nicktilsen) from NDN Collective back to the show to discuss Leonard Peltier's... more
Marking the 76th year since the Nakba (Catastrophe), Nick Estes speaks to Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) about the history of the term, how... more
Jen and Justine reflect on how the “rap beef” flooding our screens is serving as a distraction from the escalating... more
Mohamed Abdou teaches at Columbia University and has been active in the student-led encampment in solidarity with Gaza. Watch the video... more
TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) speaks to Jeffrey Ansloos about the many historical, social, and racialized connections between suicide... more
Jen is joined by Napoleon Marrietta (Tohono/Akimel O'odham) who outlines the history of the militarization of O'odham land, and how... more
Jen and Justine are joined by McKenzie Johnson, Demetrius Johnson, and Kaylee Bahe to discuss an incident that gained national... more
Red Power Hour is back! RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiza and Melanie Yazzie dissect the good, the bad, and the ugly... more
*We had originally planned to keep this behind the paywall but there was so much positive feedback regarding the earlier... more
RPH is back! RPH Co-host Melanie Yazzie is joined by Justine Teba to reflect on Indigenous environmental movements and victories... more
TRN Podcast host Jen Marley interviews Acoma Pueblo elder and activist Maurus Chino about his life, organizing career, and the... more
The return of our miniseries YOTED! Jen and Justine discuss the New Age settler spiritualism to alt-right pipeline. The documentaries... more
TRN Podcast co-host Jen Marley speaks to filmmaker and organizer Mikey (@karaokecomputer) on the overlapping histories of military occupation between... more
Sardana Nikolaeva (Sakha), Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto's Ziibiing Lab (@ziibiinglab), returns to the podcast to discuss her new... more
TRN Podcast co-host Jen Marley is joined by Mekha Aponte, Levi Harter, Marquel Musgrave to discuss the status of children... more
On February 10, 2024 at Nuwu Art Gallery on unceded Paiute territory (Las Vegas, NV),... more
*Note: This is the unlocked portion of the episode. To listen to the rest of the conversation, become a patron... more
February 6th is International Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier and All Political Prisoners. Today marks the 49th year of... more
Maryam Jamshidi (@MsJamshidi), a University of Colorado Boulder Law School professor, explores the meaning and political potential of... more
(Note: We have released the first hour of the conversation on the main feed. You can listen to the... more
Justine Teba interviews Jen Marley; two Pueblo women talking about feminism, liberation, Palestine, and a future. Watch the video... more
Cornel West (@CornelWest) is back on The Red Nation Podcast. He discusses the anti-Palestinian racism at Harvard, the genocide in... more
A series discussing and deconstructing Pan-Africanism, Zionism, and Islam in relation to contemporary Palestine. Webinar 1: Settler Colonialism... more
RPH co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) spend almost two full hours discussing the big stories of 2023. Watch... more
We can only attempt to summarize the year 2023. We gathered our podcast team to look... more
Christmas is Canceled in Bethlehem Turtle Island Palestine Mixtape Vol. 2 00. [00:00] TRN-KREZ News Radio Weather... more
(Note: We released the first hour of this episode the free feed but the conversation continued for another 40 minutes... more
In our utmost solidarity, The Red Nation has remained diligent in responding and taking action in the movements toward Palestinian... more
*Note: The Q&A is available to all patrons of Red Media!* A plenary... more
*We had originally planned to keep this half of the conversation behind the paywall but there was so much positive... more
*This is the first half of an almost two-hour-long episode. To listen to the second part, sign up for as... more
Red Power Hour is back! RPH co-host Melanie Yazzie is joined by Jen Marley, Justine Teba, Demetrius Johnson, and... more
Editor's note: We had some technical difficulties and lost significant portions of this episode, one of which Nick re-recorded afterward.... more
Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfoot) has published over thirty books and hundreds of short stories. His next book, The Angel of... more
Red Power Hour is back! A somber episode featuring Red Nation comrades Justine Teba and Demetrious Johnson reflecting on the... more
From 2010 to 2020, the world experienced mass protests. Yet, those protests have not brought about more democracy and freedom.... more
Indigenous Peoples' Day 2023 live episode special! TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) in conversation with Ali Abunimah, founder and... more
*Editor's note: This episode was recorded on 9/25/23* Jen, Demetrius, and Kiley sit down with Mohammed El-Kurd (@m7mdkurd) to discuss... more
Radhika Desai (@raddesai) is Professor at the Department of Political Studies and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group... more
On Monday, September 25, the Red Nation and an alliance of community members hosted a press conference in Española, New... more
RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie are joined by TRN podcast host Jennifer Marley and Christina Castro, founder of... more
On September 12, hundreds gathered on Piscataway lands in front of the White House to demand executive clemency for... more
Last month's Maui wildfires were devastating. While mainstream media covered the story, the deep Indigenous histories were lost... more
We're joined by Nick Estes of The Red Nation Podcast to talk about Indigenous sovereignty, land back, and how stupid... more
The 2022 Podcast Tour is back! This episode fell to the wayside last year but come take a break... more
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guest Nick Estes and former guest host Shanti Singh for a... more
*We originally intended this as a patron-only episode but after some internal discussion the team decided that this conversation was... more
The second half of the extra-long conversation RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie had with Diné filmmaker and author... more
Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie talk with Diné filmmaker and author Ramona Emerson... more
*Warning: discussions of violence and abuse towards children* Since 2015, the Mohawk Mothers are engaged in a legal battle... more
Native community members respond to the report issued by the US Department of Justice on racist policing against Black and... more
Dr. Cornel West is a prolific author, professor, preacher, and activist. He is running for US President in 2024.... more
*Note: We recorded this episode right before the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) launched their strike and published it shortly after.... more
Just in time for the Fourth of You Lie, it's another Ask Me Anything with the hosts of Red Power... more
*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode of The Red Nation Podcast. To listen to the entire conversation... more
TRN Podcast co-host Jen Marley hosts a discussion with Janene Yazzie (@SixthWorldSol) and Jade Begay of NDN collective, Teran Villa,... more
In January 2023, TRN sent a delegation to El Salvador for the Indigenous Congress for Decolonization, which seeks to unite... more
US history is a contested academic discipline, especially for Native historians. Yale historian Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) has been at... more
RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie discuss the award-winning podcast series Stolen from Native journalist Connie Walker and... more
Red Media is proud to announce the launch of Kuskalla, an Indigenous culture, language, and politics podcast in Quechua, Spanish,... more
A selection of lectures from "In Search of a New U.S. Policy for a New Latin America: Burying 200 Years... more
*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode of Red Power Hour. Get access to the entire conversation by... more
TRN Podcast co-hosts Nick Estes (@Nickwestes) and Jen Marley are back with another Ask Me Anything. This episode is guest... more
RPH is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) discuss the Native Museum Industrial Complex and more!... more
RPH is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) discuss the Native Museum Industrial Complex and more! Watch... more