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TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) dissects the 2024 US Presidential elections and what they portend for future struggles against US settler colonialism at home and imperialism around the world.

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Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! 

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Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle (@rebeccanagle) joins the show to talk about her recently released book, By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land (2024). The book is a centuries-long history and legal thriller, documenting the lead-up to the landmark McGirt Supreme Court decision.

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Vice presidential candidate for the Democratic Party and Minnesota governor Tim Walz stopped in Window Rock, AZ where snipers lined the monument and three Diné citizens were brutalized by his staffers during the Harris/Walz campaign stop. Navajo Nation president Buu Nygren announced the public event the day before, 10 days before the general election. 

While standing in the crowd, a Diné woman was continuously harassed by authorities and attacked by a Walz staffer, while another Diné man was brutalized and arrested. Meanwhile, Buu Nygren, President of the Navajo Nation, was getting heckled about his missing Vice President and another woman chanting for Trump in the crowd.  It was clear that campaign staffers weren’t clamping down on "disruptors", rather,  they were targeting Diné people--on their own homelands--policing anyone who supports Palestine.

In this episode, Justine hosts Janene, Kiley, and Koi as they recount their violent removals from the event, and their analyses of Navajo Nation Police, the widespread acceptance of genocide in the  Democratic Party, and the blatant disregard for tribal sovereignty during the U.S. presidential elections.

Watch original reporting from 10/26/24 on Tiktok and Instagram

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Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! 

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Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous People.

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Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz are joined by Liza Black (Cherokee) to discuss Taylor Sheridan's lucrative career peddling racist settler fantasies.

Check out Liza's article,  "On ‘Yellowstone,’ and the white desire to control the narrative" 

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Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! 

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Indigenous for Palestine asked some of our comrades to reflect on what they had learned witnessing the Zionist genocide fuelled by US support, and Palestinian resistance in Gaza and beyond. These are their reflections.

Contributions

"Pae ʻĀina—Wide: P.L.O. Style" Kauwila Mahi https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/07/pae-%ca%bbaina-wide-p-l-o-style/ Settler “Self-Defense” and Native Liberation by Nick Estes https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/07/settler-self-defense-and-native-liberation/

"Again, all settlers know is death and destruction" Demetrius Johnson https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/10/again-all-settlers-know-is-death-and-destruction/

"Every Child Matters From Kamloops to Gaza Uahikea Maile https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/07/every-child-matters-from-kamloops-to-gaza/

"Revolutionary Acts of Love"Leanne Betasamosake Simpson https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/07/revolutionary-acts-of-love/

"The Audacity of Reflection"Dominic Guerrera https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/07/the-audacity-of-reflection/

"A Kanaka Learns Aloha from her Palestinian ʻOhana" Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/07/a-kanaka-learns-aloha-from-her-palestinian-%ca%bbohana/

"A Matter of Peace and Compassion for Palestine" Ellen Gabriel https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/07/a-matter-of-peace-and-compassion-for-palestine/

Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! 

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The Red Nation marks Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024 with an online discussion moderated by Red Power Hour's Melanie Yazzie

Speakers:

Vivi Camacho (@.luzfloreciendo) Mohammed El-Kurd / @mohammedelkurd Monaeka Flores / @monaekaflores & Nick Estes / @nickwestes

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Next month is the 10th year anniversary of The Red Nation. The Red Nation is excited to announce that we are launching The Red Nation Newsletter, where we will be publishing writing and works related to Indigenous movements and liberation. Please go to our link tree, or look in the chat, to find our newsletter website so you can subscribe and be notified of our official launch. https://www.therednation.org/ 

Indigenous Peoples’ Day marks the 5th year anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media also co-published our book The Red Deal.

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TRIGGER WARNING: sexual assault

September 30, 2024 – Parents of youth attending Tuba City Boarding School organized a community gathering and rally outside the Navajo Police Department to demand justice and answers.

Every Child Matters –  Community Rally in Tuba City, AZ

September 30, 2024 – Parents of youth attending Tuba City Boarding School organized a community gathering and rally outside the Navajo Police Department to demand justice and answers. On September 24, a sixth-grade male teacher was arrested at the school for public sexual indecency after evidence of him masturbating in a classroom was collected by students. An act that had been happening for years. The perpetrator was released approximately 18 hours later, and the students’ families have not been able to receive further details of the investigation. 

The timing of the incident and rally happened to line up with National Day for Truth and Reconciliation- a national holiday in Canada honoring Indigenous students who never returned home from boarding school and survivors of residential schools. The incident happened at a Bureau of Indian Education boarding school, establishing that these incidents are ongoing and not of the past. 

These are their demands:

• Support from the 25th Navajo Nation Council to support a request from families to the BIE demanding a full-scale investigation into the Tuba City Boarding School system to address the misconduct and failures in the school system and provide answers and justice for our children.
• Accountability from all identified faculty and administration personnel that knew about the abuse, failed to report it or investigate it, and allowed it to continue.
• Federal charges for the perpetrator to ensure the teacher is held responsible for the harm caused to the students, families, and greater community.
• Comprehensive solutions to protect every child to ensure their safety.
• Mental health support for all students and parents affected by this traumatic event.
• Request a joint session between the HEHSC and Law and Order committees of the Navajo Nation council to hear from the families directly, and work alongside respective Navajo Nation departments for justice.

Tracklist: Justine Teba/podcast episode introduction, Starlena Nez/rally opening, KL Chino/interview, Starlena Nez/interview, Kaly Arvizu/interview, Demetrius Johnson/interview, Bijiibah Begaye & KL Chino/rally closing

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Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz take on Michael Mann's 1992 big-screen interpretation of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans (1826) in an extra- long double episode!

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In 1974, three Navajo men--John Earl Harvey, Herman Dodge Benally, and David Ignacio--were brutally beaten and murdered by white teenage settlers in the bordertown of Farmington, New Mexico. It was an act known as “Indian rolling.” Diné grassroots leaders rose to this injustice by creating the Coalition for Navajo Liberation and the long hot summer of 1974 ensued. The marches and boycotts against the settlement of Farmington would go on to stand prominently in the history of Red Power and heralded future generations of Indigenous resistance.

Saturday, September 21, 2024, the march and event Remembering 1974: Paths to Healing was organized by Diné elders who were present in 1974 and in coordination with other Navajo organizations who continue traditions of Indigenous resistance today.

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Tracklist:

01. TRN-KREZ 1680AM Morning Show

02. Chili Yazzie 

03. March conclusion

04. Demetrius Johnson 

05. Esther Keeswood

06. John Redhouse

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Federal prosecutors have attempted to tie Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier to the murder of fellow AIM activist, Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash. It is a frequent allegation that has relied on weak evidence and the charges of paid federal informants. In this episode, TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) looks at several sources of information from key Indigenous activists who knew Leonard Peltier and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash to the FBI’s own knowledge of her murder at the time it happened and federal prosecutors' initial hesitancy to take up the case.

Learn more here from a lecture by Ernesto Vigil at the University of Denver on May 6, 2023.

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Below is the text of Hank Adams’ 2020 Facebook post, shortly before his passing:

Note: Adams is responding to a 2016 APTN article in which Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde apologizes to Anna Mae Aquash’s family.

December 14, 2020

Intellectually dishonest hate-monger Paul DeMain has reignited his campaign to assure denial of any Executive Clemency to LEONARD PELTIER, 76, at any time before Leonard's next scheduled Parole Hearing in Year 2024 with a continued misuse and abuse of the December 1975 gunshot death of ANNA MAE AQUASH and the unconscionable exploitation of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash's children.

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde makes significant points in this 2016 article in which the 1975 Aquash death became the center point in President Barack Obama's decision to deny Clemency to Peltier:

“I regret that my statement caused some hurt and pain and I apologize for the pain I caused her [Denise Maloney Pictou] and her family,” said Bellegarde. “That wasn’t my intent.”

Bellegarde said he still would like to see Peltier freed. He said the case is a separate issue from AIM’s execution of Aquash.

“I called for that (Peltier’s release) because there is an injustice there,” said Bellegarde. “So I will continue to advocate for that.”

Bellegarde said two previous AFN national chiefs have made the same call which is also backed by Amnesty International and prominent individuals like the Dalai Lama.

Peltier was extradited from Canada to the U.S. in December 1976. Warren Allmand, Canada’s solicitor general at the time of Peltier’s extradition, has since stated the F.B.I submitted false information to have Peltier extradited."

DeMain's posting of Aquash daughter Denise Maloney Pictou's December 12, 2020, renewed accusations against Leonard Peltier and DeMain's hated AIM organization [re-Posted here in Comment 1] are the beginning of a campaign to assure that 2020 President-Elect Joe Biden will not grant Executive Clemency to Leonard Peltier.

In death and posthumously, Anna Mae has been made a sainted heroine. But between 1972 and November 14, 1975, Anna Mae's ways were AIM's ways. AIM's ways - good and bad - were without qualification or reservation Anna Mae's ways, by choice.

At NCAI in November, American Indian Press Association's (AIPA) Richard LaCourse told me of his meeting with Dennis Banks, Leonard Peltier, Kamook Banks, and Anna Mae just before his coming to Portland for NCAI.. Anna Mae then had indicated no distress nor given any indication that she was being held prisoner or against her will.

On November 14, 1975, the four AIM "leaders" only broke apart because of the Ontario, Oregon stopping of their [Marlon Brando] recreational vehicle by armed Oregon police. A couple days later, Leonard Peltier was transported (through Franks Landing) from Portland into British Columbia (by associates of mine, who did not inform me then of their activity).

He spent the next month in the locale he was taken to and remained incommunicado with U.S. colleagues until later, at least until he traveled to Small Boy's camp in Alberta, Canada. That is where the RCMP and FBI picked up on Leonard - long after Anna Mae Aquash's death in the second week of December 1975.

Memorandum in the FBI's Denver Office dated as early as December 19, 1975 disclosed Anna Mae Aquash had been killed - although the FBI would feign ignorance of the death and the corpse identity for more than the next three months.

The December 1975 memos identified the killers as John "Boy" Graham, Arlo Looking Cloud, and Theda Nelson Clarke - although none of the three were indicted through the next 28 years. The Looking Cloud trial was held in December 2004; Graham's in 2010 - lapses of 29 and 35 years. Theda Nelson - a likely FBI Informant in December 1975 - (on mental competency findings) did not go to trial. Clark died at age 87 in 2011.

Although a lead prosecutor opened the Leonard Peltier trial in Fargo, North Dakota on March 16, 1977 declaring: "AIM is not on trial."; both AIM and Leonard Peltier were made the main 'defendants' in the 2004 and 2010 trials for the killing of Anna Mae Aquash! If there was ever a case where all parties - prosecution, defense and all witnesses - acted in friendly collusion to 'convict' undefended and absent non-parties [1st Leonard Peltier; 2nd AIM] - the Looking Cloud and Graham trials were such cases.

The fodder for the trial's conspiratorial claptrap largely was wrung from the mind and imagination of Paul DeMain in his relentless vendetta against AIM leaders and most creatively against Leonard Peltier. Many of his unsubstantiated claims were rejected by author Steven Hendricks when writing "The Unquiet Grave" (2007).

DeMain "Timelines" for Anna Mae Pictou have since focused on the AIM Convention in New Mexico just prior to the Jumping Bull Compound deaths of FBI Agents on Pine Ridge on June

26, 1975 leading to the 1977 life sentence convictions of Peltier. The design is intended to prejudice considerations against any grant of parole or clemency for Peltier.

Canada's Assembly of First Nation is correct in declaring the "execution" of Anna Mae Aquash and the pursuit of "freedom" for Leonard Peltier on compassionate and humanitarian grounds are "separate issues." They are correct in continuing their support for Executive Clemency through offices of both the Canadian Prime Minister and any U.S. President.

What satisfaction can President Elect Biden derive from side-stepping all humanitarian and compassionate considerations for Leonard Peltier through a first term, deferring any favorable consideration to the scheduled Parole Hearing in 2024?

The Pardons Office of a bureaucratic and prejudiced Justice Department housing the FBI has already failed the last four Presidents of the United States in this matter! Will retribution finally end if Leonard Peltier is still alive in 2024 and then 80 years old?

Indians of Western Washington who transported Leonard Peltier to Canada on or about November 17, 1975, and Indians of British Columbia who hosted and concealed him for the next month or until beyond when the FBI first was informed of Anna Mae's death and the identity of her killers can attest to Leonard's movements and communications (record) that wholly absolve Leonard Peltier of any direct or indirect role in the December 1975 murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash.