This Land
Hosted by Rebecca · Pushkin Industries
4.7from 9,597 ratings
- 39
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 9,597
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About This Land
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.
- Publisher
- Pushkin Industries
- Category
- history · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 May 2019
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 39 episodes have a transcript.
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
From HISTORY This Week: How the Whitman Murders Redefined the American West
31 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
From Scene on Radio: The News
27 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Origin of American Authoritarianism | Episode 6
Who has been a guest on This Land
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- Maggie Blackhawk
- Nick Estes
- Michael Blaakman
- K-Sue Park
- George Ironstack
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 8,294 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 1,303 ratings
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Who hosts This Land?
Rebecca host the show. Published by Pushkin Industries.
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