Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth

Our mission is to cultivate the best of indigenous intellectual traditions by gathering, producing, and amplifying a wide range of creative works across diversified platforms.

We publish books such as The Red Deal and Bordertown Clashes by John Redhouse, and we are home to a range of podcasts, including the Red Nation Podcast and Red Power Hour.

I am proud to present our latest documentary, The Truth Is Buried: The Mohawk Mothers vs Mcgill University.

Trigger warning, this documentary does contain content that some listeners may find disturbing.

And whatever that looks like, we have to find out through struggle itself, and the only way we win is if we struggle, and we can't be afraid to do that in this moment.

In 2020, the Red Nation nonprofit coalition that Nick Estes co-founded published The Red Deal.

It describes a political program for the liberation that emerges from the oldest class struggle in the Americas, the fight by Native people to win sovereignty, autonomy, and dignity.

It's a call to action to come together to confront climate catastrophe and build a world where life can thrive.

Nick Estes says The Red Deal was inspired by the 2010 People's Agreement of Cochabamba in Bolivia at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.

We have things such as the Green New Deal.

I think the sentiments behind such endeavors are important, but what the Cochabamba Accords or the People's Accords put forward is a critique not only of the patriarchal capitalist system that commodifies nature and that commodifies relations between humans and the non-human world, but also the uneven expectations of transition that are outsourced oftentimes to indigenous people and those people of the Global South.