Fourth of YOU STOLE OUR F****** LAND event w/ John Redhouse
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🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
The third and final livestream of the book tour celebrating the publication of Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s
Hosted by Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie at the Inspired Moments Event Center Farmington, New Mexico.
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"From the late summer of 1972 to the late summer of 1974, John Redhouse and many other Navajo and Indian rights activists threw all they had into mass movement organizing and direct action. And they were pretty good at it too in terms of effectiveness and impact.
Written in the first-person and above all, with a collective spirit of generosity and witness, John Redhouse describes the hot temper of the times in the racist and exploitative border towns in the Four Corners area of the Southwest region.
As John Redhouse says, "Without the People, you have nothing. But back then, we had a lot of people WITH us." Yes, the Power of the People, the collective human spirit of the emerging local and regional Indian civil movement, thousands of us marching in the streets of Gallup and Farmington in northwestern New Mexico with our demands. A bold citizen's arrest at city hall, a downtown street riot, burning images of enemy leaders in effigy. And more marches, demonstrations, and direct actions.
Above all, though, there was that Spirit—that unbroken, unconquerable spirit—that moved us, that drove us, that led us. And that was just in the border towns. In that turbulent decade, there was also the rapidly rising and spreading with-the-people, on-the-land resistance struggles in the coal, uranium, and oil and gas fields, and in disputed territories in the San Juan and Black Mesa basins that were targeted for ethnic cleansing and mineral extraction.
Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s brings readers to the enduring issues of the day, traced over half a century ago, where John Redhouse and many more were in the middle of a revolution that unfolds to this day."
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| 0:00.0 | I'm So welcome everyone. My name is Melanie Yazi. I am one of the co-founders of Red Media, which is the Indigenous Media organization. |
| 0:39.3 | We have an imprint that is sponsored and published this book, this incredible book. |
| 0:44.3 | We're gathered here today to hear more about from our amazing author, John Redhouse, who's in the house with us. |
| 0:51.3 | Originally from this place, Farmington, we're going to talk a lot about |
| 0:54.5 | Farmington and why it's important in relationship to this book. Also, one of the co-founders of the |
| 1:00.1 | Red Nation, some of you may heard of us, but Red Media is an indigenous media and press project. |
| 1:06.7 | We started out of really the movement work that the Red Nation has been engaged in for over a decade now. |
| 1:12.6 | We realized that there weren't that many spaces actually for native people, in particular, |
| 1:17.6 | Native freedom fighters and revolutionaries like John himself, to be able to reach a wider audience. |
| 1:25.6 | We found that a lot of the media coverage, whether it was journalism |
| 1:29.0 | in regional or national venues, but also the scholarship. I'm a trained scholar. I hold a PhD in |
| 1:34.6 | American Studies from the University of New Mexico and trained under Jennifer Nes-Denned Dale, |
| 1:39.0 | who's the first in that person to ever receive a PhD in history. And so both what we encountered with journalism as well as the academic scholarship about |
| 1:48.0 | red power, just about indigenous movements, the things that we were doing, is heavily distorted. |
| 1:54.0 | And so after years of frustration, frankly, with this in our work, we decided to create our own media project to create |
| 2:02.5 | space for native people and indigenous people engaged in struggle, whether it's against border |
| 2:08.4 | town racism like here in Farmington, land-based struggle like Black Mesa, right, the struggle for |
| 2:14.1 | water rights out on the land, the struggle to protect our people. |
| 2:17.9 | You know, we do this out of a love for our people and our land that we wanted to create a venue |
| 2:22.0 | specifically for those kinds of voices, those kinds of writers, those kinds of protagonists |
| 2:27.7 | and heroes, right, of our history of indigenous resistance and native liberation. |
| 2:32.2 | And so this is where red media came from. We're about six |
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