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🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Red Power Hour is back! The Red Nation podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) joins RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie to discuss justice for boarding and residential schools.
Link to boarding school survivor help: https://boardingschoolhealing.org/self-care-resources/
Link to Nick’s story about Carlisle: https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.17/indigenous-affairs-the-us-stole-generations-of-indigenous-children-to-open-the-west
Link to Nick’s editorial about St. Joseph Indian School: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/30/my-relatives-went-to-a-catholic-school-for-native-children-it-was-a-place-of-horrors
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0:00.0 | One of the principal barriers to the simulation seems to be the natural |
0:07.8 | tendency of white people to violence. They love violence. They love it as entertainment, the very foundation of their way of life, |
0:17.0 | death and sacrifice. |
0:20.0 | White people with almost missionary zeal have done the best to export this and sacrifice to every corner of the world. |
0:27.0 | We are not Americans. We are not Americans. |
0:34.0 | We are not Americans. |
0:36.0 | We are not Americans. |
0:38.0 | Better red and death. |
0:40.0 | Better red than death. |
0:42.0 | Better red than Dead than Dead. Better Red than Dead. |
0:44.0 | Yeah! |
0:46.0 | Yeah! We haven't done a glad you're dead, section in a while. |
0:52.0 | There's one more before we start talking about boarding school. We haven't done a glad you're dead section in a while. |
0:52.8 | There's one more before we start talking about boarding schools that I wanted to mark. |
0:57.2 | I think we've all possibly heard the news now that Donald Rumsfeld has died. |
1:01.6 | That's definitely a glad you're dead Ron or Dawn kind of moment. |
1:07.0 | I was actually starting a piece that I'm writing for collection of essays kind of thinking |
1:10.8 | about Vine Deloria Jr's influence on indigenous |
1:13.8 | activists today. So I'm contributing to that and I was going to write about |
1:18.3 | media, just media work, because he had some important things to say about how |
1:22.4 | indigenous people need to run our own media and of |
1:25.0 | course Red Nation. |
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