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Melanie Yazzie: “We will never leave, we will never forget”

The Red Nation | August 28, 2025



Melanie Yazzie is the cohost of Red Power Hour and speaks to what Indigenous people can offer to the Palestinian struggle.

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This post currently has 34 comments.

  1. @kitiamuriel

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    Thank you professor Yazzie. Just learnt about you by following the Navajo Traditional Teachings channel, where I also learnt about the reply you got by a fair-haired woman whose name is still unknown to me, and she very much sounds like the XXI century nazis who are occupying Palestine and try to obliterate the Palestinian native nation. Palestinian Resistance is teaching us all what real Human Beings are capable of, even when all they can physically resource to is their maimed body. It's one voice, one struggle, one call. The coloniser's mindset is per se destructive, and a threat to the very Planet. A State built on colonisation will end up being violent against one's own people and the very land, for conquer is based on greed, not on love. Palestine free, the whole World free. Long Live the Resistance!

  6. @Liberty-rn4wy

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    Hamas would insist that she convert, veil up (stop putting her veil around her neck) and stop lecturing men in public like this, as that is for men and women's role is at home.

  7. @Liberty-rn4wy

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    Prof. Yazzie claims that Natives are very oppressed, despite the fact that they have their own land, tribes, governments, casinos, and are given special hunting and fishing rights. Most do pretty well. Also, claiming that ethnic groups have a right to eternal land is not a leftwing idea, even if she thinks it is. It is a European rightwing idea. She is presenting it here but a Nazi or German nationalist in let's say the year 1910 would have fully agreed with her that ethnic groups eternally own land and should fight for it. If she hates the US government why does she work for it? If she hates the US capitalist system why is she sucking its teat?

  8. @modebionics

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    Decolonization will NEVER happen

    500 years and your tribes haven’t mobilized, organized or changed for the better.

    Riding off the back of the Palestinian struggle is a performative copout …one minute you say “we are the most oppressed” followed by “we have power” which one is it? Are you powerless or powerful?! Do you actually think your words will defeat robotic drones, tanks and fighter jets? Grow up, move on and change yourselves and do the work, stop asking for handouts to fund a pointless movement.

    Nothing but Marxist rhetoric with no real plan in sight “comrades” what a joke. Your just Following another white ideology (Marxist communist propaganda) using white buzz words like “comrades” such as performative racist speech.

  9. @soullesssnake3307

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    The Navajo people nearly made the hopi extinct, checkout the reservation that surrounds the hopi, they didn't take it cause they had the higher ground. Should the Navajo give it back? Just be glad we are under one nation and the greatest super power in the world.

  11. @kesey1000

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    Native American tribes brutalized one another. They raped, tortured, enslaved, stole each other's lands like every other group of human beings in the history of the world.

  14. @adamwyker4800

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    Holy sh*t this is so embarrassing. Ok, so you’ll “never leave” the reservation. Great…

    You “won’t forget” what? Interesting that you’ve already forgotten your intertribal blood feuds. Member that? Member how you hated each other to the point of total annihilation, genocides when and where possible.

    You have no moral authority on anything. In fact it was your complete lack of morality that led to the moniker of “savage.” Of course it wasn’t all…there were some very noble, altruistic, amazing tribes. The vast majority were so sadistically violent that it sorta painted the good tribes in a bad light.

    Anyway, you want to rename the redskins? Fine. Let’s do cities and townships next. Erase it all. It was still a literal Stone Age civilization barely a century ago.

    Most conquered peoples don’t get reservations and special entitlements from their conquerors. Clearly they have enough food on the res…

    God bless the settlers and the colonists. Amazing people. We owe them and so do these chubby red-tards.

  15. @dantheman669

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    A lot of interesting (completely ridiculous) language used here.
    “Comrades”
    “Settler population”
    “Palestinian relatives”
    “We are the embodiment of the future our ancestors struggled for” (how sad for them)
    “Colonized/ oppressed people”
    The level of delusion and self-pity is astounding. Someone tel her that no one’s leaving, no one agrees, and no one cares. It isn’t yours; never was.

  16. @ragebait988

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    Comrades lol

    Your people have reservations and they suck because of your people.

    You oppress yourself with your genetics.

    …”everyone should just be on board with it”

    On board with what? Turning the entirety of “Turtle island” into a shit place like your reservations?

  17. @milestackettmusic

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    Wild self delusion on display here. wow I agree that the Israeli government is being excessive in their murderous revenge campaign the idea of dismantling, the United States, and the entire land back movement is just not living in the real world. rather than focusing on that how about focusing on doing everything you can to uplift the people living in your reservation. You’ll notice this is not a unanimous agreed-upon stats within the many different nations. this is certainly not the stance of those particular tribes that are prospering economically from their casinos.

  20. @msw9904

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    Free.. Free.. Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
    Free.. Free.. Nation One & all native nations🏕️🏜️🛶
    Free.. Free.. Hawaii 🌞🌞🌞

  23. @markfcoble

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    Goal is to destroy usa? Only solution? She's obviously a tyrant! Professional victim class!
    What would this look like? See Muslim countries! Know any nice muslim countries?
    Scared? She's delusional!!!

  24. @markfcoble

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    Extreme propaganda! Did native Americans have slaves? Ever war on each other? Are native Americans destined to be perpetual victims like African Americans? Yes. Thanks to their leaders!

  26. @levimatthew8911

    August 28, 2025 at 3:25 am

    The Jews were the rightful inhabitants of Israel for thousands of years before the "palestinians" were invented. Hooray for the indigenous people of Jerusalem!! Remove the settlements of "palestine"!!! And the the rest of Israel!!! It all belongs to the Jews!!!

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