RPH vs. The Wind and the Reckoning (2022)
The Red Nation Podcast
The Red Nation
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz review The Wind and the Reckoning (2022), which dramatizes the colonization of Kanaka Maoli' lands and the Native resistance to it.
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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 | Better red than death. |
| 0:40.0 | Better red than death. |
| 0:42.0 | Better red than death. |
| 0:43.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.8 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm sure listeners haven't heard my voice or Elena's voice in a beat. A lot |
| 0:58.9 | happened this summer that I'm sure a lot of our listeners are aware of, but we're not going to |
| 1:03.2 | talk about that today. But welcome back to Red Power Hour. We haven't recorded in a couple of |
| 1:08.6 | months, but I'm Melanie Yazzie. I'm one of the co-hosts. |
| 1:11.7 | And I'm joined here by my lovely co-host, Elena, if you want to say hello. |
| 1:16.2 | Hello, San Gatamo. |
| 1:17.5 | This is Elena Ortiz calling in from Ogapogi Owinge, otherwise known as Santa Fe. |
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