f you haven’t caught wind of it yet, Frybread Face & Me is the feature film debut of writer/director Billy Luther (Navajo, Hopi, Laguna Pueblo) and it’s about a young Navajo city kid getting dropped off to spend the summer with his grandma and cousin and assorted other relatives on the reservation.
Read MoreIf you haven’t heard already, this year has been just about the best year for cool new Native books in recent recorded history. They’ve been breaking the internet, inspiring class rooms, healing the hard-bitten, making elders smile, and profoundly changing the game.
Read MoreFor a century everyone laughed about the Indians
who didn’t want their picture taken for fear
of having their soul stolen.
But what if it wasn’t actually a laughing matter.
Read MorePREY is more proof that the floodgates of opportunity for Native creatives are swinging open and off their hinges and that now is our time to tell our stories with all of the talent and imagination and heart that we possess.
Read MoreImposter Syndrome. I felt it a lot more strongly when I was a teenager and when I was in my twenties. Everyone knew what being Indian really was but not me. I didn’t grow up on a reservation, wasn’t surrounded by the culture, didn’t have any relatives really teaching me much, wasn’t schooled really in anything but the same American way that everyone else was.
Read MoreThere are so many things that’re cool about being Indian. In fact, that’s why the overwhelming numbers of Non-Indians couldn’t handle us, I think, because we were just too cool. It made them jealous, jealous enough to decide to kill us all.
Read MoreCan you feel this vision the ancestors are carrying on their horses beside us? It’s there in Reservation Dogs. It’s all over Instagram and social media. And it was there in a history-making way in Standing Rock. The truth is all of us Natives are feeling it, like a spring bubbling up in our hearts, the life-waters of everything our ancestors passed down to us just roaring on out.
Read MoreOur stories give us the power to live. Our stories are all deep with an almost unbearable love.
Read MoreDenny was running on the treadmill in the kitchen, his shoes pounding on the track, occasionally you’d hear him talking Lakota into his phone where he was WhatsApping a student who wanted something clarified.
Read MoreWe bought our plane tickets. We crossed our fingers. We hoped against all hope. And then, as expected, the Ponca powwow was officially cancelled.
Read MoreBusinesses in our little Oregon town are beginning to shut down, the uneasy reality of this worldwide situation reaching our midst, flowing into our world. Everybody’s talking about shelter-in-place
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