Event Description
🎙️Tune in to First America – premiering June 22, 2026 🎙️
This summer, as our country celebrates the 250-year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, First America tells the true story of our country’s founding and how our current political moment is 250 years in the making.
Written and reported by award-winning journalist Rebecca Nagle (Cherokee Nation), First America brings together Indigenous experts and historians to unveil how the founders’ treatment of Indigenous nations is the root of authoritarianism in the United States.
Featuring:
Maggie Blackhawk (Fond du Lac Ojibwe), New York University
Ned Blackhawk (citizen of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone), Yale University
Phil Deloria (descendant of the Standing Rock and Yankton Sioux tribes), Harvard University
Nick Estes (citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe), University of Minnesota
Produced by Critical Frequency and distributed by Pushkin Industries.
For updates and more info: www.firstamerica.info
For partnership inquiries: info.firstamerica@gmail.com
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