RPH vs. Powwow Highway (1989)
The Red Nation Podcast
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie return to discuss Powwow Highway (1989)
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| 0:00.0 | One of the principal barriers to assimilation seems to be the natural tendency of white people |
| 0:09.0 | to violence. They love violence. They love it as entertainment. |
| 0:14.0 | The very foundation of their way of life, death and sacrifice. |
| 0:20.0 | White people, with almost missionary zeal, have done their best to export death and sacrifice. White people with almost missionary zeal |
| 0:22.6 | have done their best to export death and sacrifice |
| 0:25.6 | for every corner of the world. |
| 0:29.6 | We are not American. |
| 0:32.6 | We are not American. |
| 0:34.6 | We are not American. |
| 0:36.6 | We are not American. We are not American. You're not American. |
| 0:38.2 | We're not American. |
| 0:40.0 | Better red than death. |
| 0:42.0 | Better red than death. |
| 0:45.6 | We are finally recording. |
| 0:52.7 | What a journey to get here. I just want to swear immediately but I'm not |
| 0:57.7 | going to there's a lot of swearing before we got to this point hi everyone this is Melanie |
| 1:04.2 | Yazi co-host of Red Power Hour we had technical difficulties and it took us almost an hour |
| 1:10.4 | an hour and a half to get to this point where we could hit record. |
| 1:13.9 | Anyway, Elena, would you like to just introduce yourself? |
| 1:19.6 | I'm Elena Ortiz calling in from Ogapoga Owinge. |
| 1:23.6 | And yes, it's been quite a journey, I think, from like when both of us tried to figure out how we were going to watch this film that we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:38.8 | And it involved some really stone age technology. I actually, so we're going to talk, today we're going to talk about Pow Wow Highway, |
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