"Rebellions are built on hope": Star Wars and settler colonialism

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Guest host Zitkato (@BandsIsland) is joined by Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay), Demetrius and Enoch to discuss how Star Wars relates to settler colonialism.

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0:00.0	And I'm for bands of Turtle Island another member of the Red Nation
0:36.9	red media pie class family zicato on online formats because I live near Nazis that try to start compounds.
0:46.0	Oh my God.
0:48.0	Terrifying.
0:50.0	We're talking about Star Wars today because we figured a lot more media analysis would be more fun.
0:56.8	So Star Wars.
0:58.6	We all love Star Wars here.
1:00.5	Some of us only like certain movies. some of us like more of them other than others.
1:05.8	So how about we all introduce ourselves and our nations and everything and I'm Oglala Lakota.
1:16.0	How about we introduce ourselves and maybe our favorite Star Wars movie? That's a good one. Mine's Rogue One actually.
1:18.0	That's my favorite Star Wars.
1:20.0	I'll go for Algo.
1:22.0	Yat A Saagale, my name's Enoch Noyer. I'm Navajo Noyda. I'm a huge Star Wars fan.
1:28.5	Honestly, I love all the films. I'm one of those guys like no film can do me. well solo soo kind of I love solo too I love
1:37.4	them all I'm like no wrong as long as it is Star Wars in the name they got my
1:41.3	money but my favorite Star Wars movie is like a toss-up
1:46.5	between Return of the Jedi and the Last Jedi to be honest with you. Really? Yeah.
1:51.2	My name's Elena, okay, Wingay living in Ogapulge, otherwise known as Santa Fe. I'm O.G. So I was actually the age of the predominant demographic who fell in love with these films in 1977.
2:13.2	The first Star Wars came out when I was 12.
2:16.2	And I say the first, as in they renamed it The New Hope,
2:20.9	but for me it was always the first Star Wars movie. I love the first three. I dislike
2:27.1	intensely the three that came after and the ones that have come out in this millennium I'm okay with.
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