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The Red Nation Podcast

"All we need is each other": From the frontlines in Minneapolis

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation

History, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

RPH co-host Melanie Yazzie continues our series of frontline reports from Minneapolis. In this episode, Melanie speaks to Rachel Thunder from the Indigenous Protector Movement and NDN's Lorenzo Serna.

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One of the principal barriers to assimilation seems to be the natural tendency of white people

0:09.0

to violence. They love violence. They love it as entertainment.

0:14.0

The very foundation of their way of life, death and sacrifice.

0:20.0

White people, with almost missionary zeal, have done their best to export death and sacrifice. White people with almost missionary zeal

0:22.6

have done their best to export death and sacrifice

0:25.6

for every corner of the world.

0:29.6

We are not American.

0:32.6

We are not American.

0:34.6

We are not American.

0:36.6

We are not American. We are not American. You're not American.

0:38.2

Better red than dead.

0:40.0

Better red than death.

0:42.0

Better red than death.

0:45.6

Yeah.

0:49.8

Hi, folks.

0:50.8

This is Melanie Yazzie, co-host of Red Power Hour.

0:53.8

Coming back to you with another episode here from the front lines of the resistance in

0:58.0

Minichotamacocha, otherwise known as the Twin Cities of Minnesota.

1:02.0

This episode is part of a special series that we're doing right now on what is happening here on the ground

1:10.0

to resist the occupation and the siege that ICE

1:14.1

and the feds have placed us under and then also to tell stories that aren't being told

1:20.2

in other media platforms, particularly from an indigenous lens and centering the things

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