The Red Nation Podcast

Nick Estes, Jen Marley, Melanie Yazzie, Elena Ortiz

Booking Overview

An interview-led podcast focused on Indigenous history, politics, and culture from a left perspective, with recurring external guests who are Indigenous scholars, writers, educators, and cultural experts. Agencies could credibly pitch Indigenous intellectuals, historians, language educators, authors, activists, and researchers with substantial subject-matter expertise or published work; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 488

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

editortherednation@gmail.com

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Host

Nick Estes - Associate professor of American Indian Studies, cofounder of The Red Nation, and author of Our History Is the Future.

Jen Marley - Host of The Red Nation Podcast.

Melanie Yazzie - Host of Red Power Hour.

Elena Ortiz - Host of Red Power Hour.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Indigenous scholars, writers, poets, educators, language specialists, activists, and researchers with established expertise in Indigenous history, politics, culture, or resistance movements.

Required Achievements:

Published books or substantial scholarship, Academic or educational expertise, Recognized work in Indigenous cultural or political issues

Recent Guest Discussions

ika Dta - Learning, Speaking, And Teaching Dakota, And Expanding Indigenous Language Education

Deborah Miranda - Storytelling As Resistance, Indigenous History, Memoir, And Her Writing

Recent Topics

Indigenous, Politics, History, Decolonization

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Red Nation Podcast

Settler colonialism, socialism, and decolonization w/ Alex Reid

August 24, 2026

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes in conversation witih Alex Reid. Alex is a comedian and unpublished writer from the Heiltsuk and Nisga'a nations in Northern B.C. His free educationals, writing, videos and podcast features can be found in this document. Watch the livestream edition on the Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtube.com/live/_YHrLiVrbgw?feature=share Follow Nick on Substack https://nickestes.substack.com Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/e...

Winter Stories: Reading and Writing in Dakota w/ Šišóka Dúta.

August 17, 2026

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes hosts Dakota language educator Šišóka Dúta in a conversation about learning, speaking, and teaching their native tongue, Dakota, and the possibilities of expanding Indigenous language education. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/CnSxZLAXvxA Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Pa...

Return to Bandung (#39) - From Minneapolis to Iran w/ Nick Estes

August 10, 2026

***Producer's note: Reposting an episode Nick recorded with Return to Bandung*** In this episode, I'm joined by returning guest Nick Estes—associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, cofounder of The Red Nation, and author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance(Verso Books, 2019)—to discuss last winter's federal occupation of Minnesota during the Trump Administration's '...

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