First America on Slow Burn

Hi, Susan Matthews here, host of Slow Burn Becoming Justice Gorsuch. You know that here on Slow Burn, we explore the events and the people who have shaped America as we know it today. And now there's a new podcast that examines a very consequential moment from our past, one that's impacted the past 250 years. It's called First America, and it reveals the true story of why the colonists rebelled, what kind of government they created, and how it led to America's current political moment. We've been told the revolution was fought over taxation and representation. But what the founders were most angry about in the Declaration of Independence was Native Americans. First America host Rebecca Nagel, an indigenous author and the former host of Crooked's This Land podcast, questions how an entire country missed the point of its own founding document. Rebecca, alongside leading Native historians, unveils how the founders' treatment of Indigenous nations and their resistance shaped U.S. democracy. Here's episode one, where Rebecca sits down with historian Ned Blackhawk, Western Shoshone, to talk about how hunger for Indigenous land drove the American Revolution. You can find more episodes of First America wherever you get your podcasts.