Hi, Susan Matthews here, host of Slowburn becoming Justice Gorsuch. You know that here on

Slowburn, we explore the events and the people who have shaped America as we know it today. And now,

there's a new podcast that examines a very consequential moment from our past, one that's impacted the past 250 years. It's called First America,

and it reveals the true story of why the colonists rebel, what kind of government they created,

and how it led to America's current political moment. We've been told the revolution was fought

over taxation and representation, but what the founders

were most angry about in the Declaration of Independence was Native Americans. First America

host Rebecca Nagel, an indigenous author and the former host of Crooked's This Land podcast,

questions how an entire country missed the point of its own founding document.

Rebecca, alongside leading native historians, unveils how the founder's treatment of indigenous

nations and their resistance shaped U.S. democracy.

Here's episode one, where Rebecca sits down with historian Ned Blackhawk,

Western Shoshone, to talk about how hunger for indigenous land drove the American Revolution.

You can find more episodes of First America wherever you get your podcasts.

Music Where do you want us to park?

I think you have to park in here.

The port is that way?

Yeah, the port's that way.

On a cold day in January, I visited Fort Snelling in Minneapolis.

I was there with my friend Nick Gastis.

He's a history professor at the University of Minnesota and a citizen of the lower

Burrell Sioux tribe.

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