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Tamau listeners this is the first hour of a long episode we recorded on July 4th

about John Ford's film The Searchers we all had a lot to say you can listen to the

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support the work that we are doing across Turtle Island. We appreciate you. So, Oh, come on on here. You're And then So the intro has to be either the opening music or the opening score to this film, which actually just sounds terrifying to me, or it has to be that really

corn town, I think it's Max Steiner, the Searchers song where he's like talking about like how to commit a genocide on the prairies.

The show I watched this actually in an American and Indians and film class and I couldn't understand why it was the sign because it was so freaking awful and I actually think some of the native students in the class got up and walked out because it was so.

Well, the music is horrible, but then when you see Scar for the first time, with the bright red and yellow war paint on his face that looks like some

kid finger painted him.

He's just on his way to a Taylor Swift concert or a chief's game.

Who knows?

He is going to coach.

Literally nothing has changed.

So if people haven't guessed it by now, we are talking about this foundational text of American settler colonialism.

John Ford's 1956, I think, the Searchers starring John Wayne and a bunch of other white people who's name,

although I do have a secret surprise about one of the cast members that I'm planting now and we're going to watch it blossom later.

This movie I've been we I wanted to talk to you guys about it.

This is an episode of Red Nation podcast, but I'm just talking as if I'm the host.

But I've wanted to because people are confused maybe why we're here. But I've been begging to do this episode for a while now because and especially and even I think before October 7th maybe but especially after October 7th because it has a lot of resonance with a lot of not just

Zionist rhetoric but really to the core of like American, let's say, cultural identity.

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