On Native Horror and the terrors of settler colonialism w/ Kali Simmons
The Red Nation Podcast
The Red Nation
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🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Kali Simmons (@SimmonsKali) talks to TRN Podcast co-hosts Jen Marley (@JenMarley1680) and Nick Estes (@nickwestes)
on the cultural links between settler colonialism and horror fiction and film.
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| 0:00.0 | And the So, Don't go out on it. Hi comrades thank you for joining us for the Red Nation podcast. My name is Jen Marley. Today we're going to be talking about |
| 0:47.2 | native horror. But before that, I just want to remind you, if you haven't yet, to please subscribe to our Patreon. Our Patreon subscribers really keep the heart of |
| 0:59.6 | Red Nation and Red Media beating. So thank you again so much for those of you have subscribed and |
| 1:05.4 | we're going to be releasing even more content, even more bonus content, so it'll be |
| 1:11.8 | worth this subscription for sure. But yeah, let's get into it. We're here with |
| 1:16.4 | Kaye Simmons. She's a literary theorist and she specializes in Native horror. I don't know if that's how you got your start, but yeah, I'm |
| 1:26.4 | excited for this conversation. I know a lot of people are excited for this conversation. |
| 1:30.5 | I've been telling people, yeah, we going to do an episode on Native horror and |
| 1:34.0 | everyone's really into it because a lot of natives are into horror as we know so I wanted to ask you why do you think that is why |
| 1:41.5 | do you think that natives have such a unique relationship to horror and what makes |
| 1:46.8 | unique? What is the appeal? But before you answer that question can you introduce yourself to? |
| 1:52.0 | Yeah, I'm sorry. Before you answer that question, can you introduce yourself to? |
| 1:53.0 | I'm sorry, yeah. |
| 1:55.0 | Okay, I'm myself. |
| 1:57.0 | Hi, I'm Kaye Simmons. |
| 1:58.4 | I'm Oval Law Lakota from Pine Ridge. |
| 2:01.6 | I'm a professor of Indigenous Nation Studies at Portland State University. Howdy. |
| 2:07.0 | So why do natives have such an interesting relationship to horse. |
| 2:13.7 | So there's like two reasons, right? |
| 2:15.2 | So first is that a lot of our communities have, |
| 2:19.6 | right, these beings that, and we have this storytelling history and present you know keep |
| 2:26.8 | telling stories that has a lot of creepy stuff in it Like I remember this summer I was listening to some recordings by some |
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