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The Red Nation Podcast

Bad Indians w/ Gregg Deal

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation

Society & Culture, History

4.8943 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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TRN Comrades Justine Teba and Kyon Benally speak to Gregg Deal, artist and frontman of the band Dead Pioneers (@dead.pioneers)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Not a very good Indian, maybe even a bad Indian.

0:04.0

My cheekbones aren't high enough.

0:07.0

My last name isn't a sentence.

0:09.0

I don't have enough beadwork or turquoise, and I don't speak good pitch in English,

0:14.0

certainly not as good as Johnny Depp did in that movie that one time.

0:18.0

And I don't care if you connect with Indianian spiritualism i could care less if you did a

0:23.7

sweat lodge with your caucasian spirit guide who knew an indian once sure millions of indians died

0:30.2

but tell me about your feelings and cry your white tears i'm just gonna be over here being a bad indian

0:37.2

okay thank you tomu Turtle Island.

0:39.3

It is Justine, joining you today.

0:42.3

We have a really exciting interview coming up.

0:45.3

Today we'll be talking to Greg Deal from the band Dead Pioneers,

0:49.3

and we also have the Comrade Kayan on.

0:52.3

Would you all like to do brief introductions?

0:55.0

We'll start with Kayen and then we'll go to Greg.

0:58.0

Hey everyone, what's up?

1:01.0

Kayan Benali here is a guest host today.

1:05.0

Usually I'm behind the camera doing all the clips, the graphics, the images, try to do my best with all that.

1:11.6

But Justine requested some help for this one because we did both attend the Dead Pioneer

1:17.3

show where I also met Greg and listened to the band for the first time.

1:21.7

So yeah, decided to jump on for this and excited just to have a nice conversation talk about some native music

1:29.0

Greg yeah umu new gregg deal minaniya new q yu yitukota uh my name is gregg deal i'm uh my people are

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