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🗓️ 19 May 2025
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RPH is back! Cohosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie do a very deep dive reading of Thunderheart (1992)
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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 | to 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 dead You're not American. Better red than dead. |
0:38.3 | Better red than dead. With red than Power Hour with Dr. Melanie here, |
0:58.0 | and we are going to be talking about a movie. Go figure. This is an older film, but we decided we wanted to go back. |
1:10.0 | I think actually, watching it again, I think there's a lot in this film that's relevant to what's going on now. |
1:20.6 | But we're talking about Thunderheart, which is a film that was that came out in 1992. |
1:28.3 | It was directed by Michael Aptead. |
1:31.3 | And interestingly enough, I found this out |
1:34.3 | when I was doing research on it. |
1:36.3 | I knew he did this. I didn't realize they came out the same year. |
1:39.3 | He also produced a film called Incident at Oglala, |
1:45.0 | which was about the Leonard Peltier, |
1:50.0 | the whole situation of the jumping bull compound, |
1:54.0 | but the trial as well. |
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