First America
By Crooked Media
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Subscribers: 3815
Reviews: 14
Episodes: 27
ritterbusch
Jun 12, 2024
Laura P
Oct 25, 2021
This is such a well produced podcast about such an underreported and fascinating topic. Having the personal experience of the narrator and a production team of many Indigenous people is so important to reporting on these issues.
erica
Aug 24, 2021
This work is so important. The current attack on Sovereingty and the subsequent silence is horrific. Thank you so much for creating and disseminating this.
Sep 9, 2020
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Jul 15, 2020
JJ
Mar 1, 2020
What a fantastic topic I'd LOVE to learn more about. But as keeps happening, it can't get out of its own way, trying to make veiled political statements, declaring things as facts that are not, etc. I'm so very sorry, it could be SO great.
Robert Whitaker
Feb 10, 2020
All Americans need to listen to this podcast to learn about the atrocities committed by white people against the Native people and what the whites are still doing to the Native people in order to continue to take their land that rightfully belongs to the Native people.
Abbie
Jan 20, 2020
Such a good podcast! I learned a ton and really want to hear updates from the host when SCOTUS re-does the big legal case.
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Description
Episodes begin June 22.
Native people have been written out of the American story, but without us you don’t know what happened. This summer the United States will celebrate the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. When you read the Declaration, you realize it is a list of complaints. The last entry, the climax in our founders’ reasons for rebellion against the Crown, is this: “He has excited… the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
We have been told the Revolution was fought over taxation and representation. But what the founders were most angry about in our country’s most famous document was Indian affairs. How did generations of Americans miss this?
The first armed rebellion against the Crown was an attack on British forts that traded with tribes. When colonists threw tea into the Boston harbor, they dressed up like members of the Mohawk tribe—not for disguise, but because pretending to be Indian symbolized freedom and rebellion. The founding fathers’ first government failed because Indigenous nations were too powerful; war and diplomacy with Native people is why we have a central federal government.
Hosted and reported by Rebecca Nagle and featuring leading Native historians, First America unveils how the founders’ treatment of Indigenous nations—and their resistance—shaped US democracy. The show does not simply add another blemish to the image of the founding fathers, it reveals the real story of why the colonists rebelled, what kind of government they created, and, crucially, how our current political moment was 250 years in the making.
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Welcome to First America
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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This Land is Now First America
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Introducing Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Introducing: BY THE FIRE WE CARRY (audiobook)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Introducing “Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s”
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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9. Update: Supreme Court Decision
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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8. The Heart Of It
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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7. Before The Court
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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6. Trojan Horse
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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5. Pro Bono
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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4. Supply And Demand
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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3. Grandma Versus The Foster Parents
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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2. Behind The Curtain
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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1. Solomon’s Sword
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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This Land, season 2 (coming August 23rd)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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10. The Ruling
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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9. Supreme Court Update
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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8. The Next Battleground
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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7. Still Bleeding
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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6. The Postponement
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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5. The Land Grab
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Update: Surprise announcement from SCOTUS
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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4. The Treaty
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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3. The Opposition
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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2. The Tribe
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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1. The Case
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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This Land (coming June 3rd)
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May 21, 2019 |