Stop running from death: In conversation with Ramona Emerson (pt.1)

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🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Red Power Hour is back!

Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie talk with Diné filmmaker and author Ramona Emerson about her celebrated debut novel Shutter (2023)

*This is the first half of the conversation; the hosts spoke with Ramona for almost two hours! If you can't wait to listen to the second half, subscribe to Red Media on Patreon or watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel*

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0:00.0	One of the principal barriers to assimilation seems to be the natural
0:08.0	tendency of white people to violence. They love violence. They love it as entertainment, 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 this and sacrifice for every corner of the world.
0:27.0	We are not Americans. We are not Americans.
0:34.0	We are not Americans.
0:36.0	We are not Americans.
0:38.0	Better red than death.
0:40.0	Better red than Death.
0:43.0	Than Death.
0:44.0	Yeah!
0:45.0	Yeah!
0:47.0	H.
0:48.0	Hi everyone.
0:50.0	This is Melanie, co-host of RPH, joined by Elena, co-host also of RPH.
1:00.0	And we're doing a redo of something that I know people really wanted a few a few months ago,
1:06.0	but we're joined today by the fabulous Ramona Emerson.
1:09.0	Want to say hi, want to say hi Ramona?
1:12.0	Hi Ramona?
1:12.6	Hi Ramona.
1:15.2	I love your shirt Ramona.
1:19.2	I love your shirt Ramona.
1:20.4	Hey, thank you. Is that from the latest concert they had in Albuquerque?
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