CZM Rewind: Part Two, Lakota Resistance to the American Empire

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In part two of this four-part episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Miriam about two centuries of resistance to American imperialism, from Crazy Horse to Leonard Peltier.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.0	Cool Zone Media.
0:08.3	Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff.
0:10.4	Your twice a week, a reminder that Margaret still doesn't know how to introduce her show.
0:15.1	I am your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and this is a rerun episode, and we are rerunning Lakota
0:20.8	resistance to the American Empire because
0:23.7	people have some incorrect ideas about what this country was built on and is still doing.
0:33.2	And we need to remember that even as this country gets into a new version of worse and we have to fight against the new version of worse, we can't romanticize the past of this country.
0:44.2	And instead we have to romanticize people who rebel and resist things like it.
0:51.6	So here's the rerun.
0:56.3	Hello and welcome to cool people did cool stuff,
0:58.8	your weekly reminder that people can do good things as well as bad things.
1:04.3	Sometimes they do bad things, good things because bad things have happened.
1:09.9	I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy.
1:12.0	And with me as my guest is Miriam.
1:15.0	Hi.
1:16.6	I'm Miriam.
1:18.5	Miriam's one of our favorite guests.
1:19.7	We don't have favorites.
1:22.0	You're my favorite podcast to come on.
1:24.6	Oh, thanks.
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