“Native humor can be dark and raunchy — and it’s weird,” says Tazbah Chavez, a writer, producer and director on “Reservation Dogs,” the off-kilter show that follows Native teenagers navigating their ...
Trish Cook is an Anishinaabe comedian. She is premiering her sold out show "Death, Grief and Dying: Indigenous Humor While Crying" at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. EMILY BRIGHT: Well, maybe you ...
In a dramatic moment of the “Reservation Dogs” pilot, a car with tinted windows rolls up on the Dogs, a crew of four teenage petty thieves living on a Native American reservation in Oklahoma. In slow ...
Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi — the co-creators of “Reservation Dogs” — met in the mid-aughts, and though Harjo is from Oklahoma and Waititi grew up in New Zealand, they immediately bonded over ...
Let's say you're watching a documentary about Native Americans, or reading a book about Native Americans, or attending an art exhibit about Native Americans. Here's what you likely won't be doing: ...
THE shaggy background of our country is gradually edging into the foreground. Writers and anthologists —all very busy, ingenious, and inspired have put the neon to the homespun, and we are asked to ...