Oh, So, Thank you for tuning into the Red Nation podcast today.

Y'all got me J.T. on the mic today.

This past Thursday I had the opportunity to attend the event Forward Movement by Tewa Basin Collective and Jacob Johns.

But first, let's take it back.

It was the summer of 2020 and it was the thick of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The echoes of the George Floyd uprisings had rippled onto Confederate monuments

across the U.S. and naturally onto monuments of settler colonialism against the indigenous peoples of Turtle Island.

On June 15th there were two different actions against the same colonizer,

Juan de On yate.

The majority of the Red Nation was present in Tewa Territory in Rio Reba County in Alkolde, New Mexico.

By the time of our arrival, the motives of the action had switched from opposition to celebration as a statue was taken down.

Not because its owners and conquistador apologists thought to do so because it was the right thing to do, but to protect the statue, of course.

Nonetheless, the statue came down and was to never come back up so long as the people could help it.

From Tewa territory, we left in victory.

In Tewa territory, it was a much different story.

A crowd opposing the Onyate statue

in front of the Albuquerque Museum of Art in History were being targeted by local white supremacist militias and vigilantes.

One of them being Stephen Baca, who was armed and targeting and assaulting women in the crowd, one of whom who was

thrown to the ground by him.

As relative defenders moved to chase him off and in an act of cowardice he shot community protector Scott Williams four times.

Scott's body twisted in such a perfect way that doctors said it was a miracle that he had lived. Three years later,

Onyati was resurrected by the Rio Reba County Commissioners, Chairman Alex

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