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Distant Thunder premiered off-Broadway on September 27, 2024. The musical centers on the journey of a brash young attorney who returns home to the Blackfeet Nation in Montana and "must grapple with the paradigm of being Native American in America." The cast of the musical is all-Indigenous. Jeff Barehand, President and CEO of Sky Bear Media video production company plays White Feather-the father of the young attorney. While Jeff isn't new to the stage, performing in an off-Bro...
BURBANK, Calif.—Children under seven years old can no longer watch some of the old Disney films on the Disney+ streaming platform. Their accounts have recently been blocked from accessing a list of films that are deemed culturally questionable. The Disney Company’s first move to be culturally sensitive, started last October, when they created an initiative called “Stories Matter” to address racially offensive or stereotyped images and themes in their old stock movies. Movies currently affected include “Dumbo” (which incl...
BURBANK, Calif.-As media offerings in Indigenous languages increase, The Walt Disney Company has joined the team. Those who have the Disney+ streaming service can now see "Finding Nemo" and "Star Wars: A New Hope" in the Navajo language. In 2013, Navajo language speakers joined Lucasfilms forces to bring "Star Wars: A New Hope" to locations across the Navajo Nation. The effort took three years to complete. In 2016, Pixar films decided to follow suite and brought "Finding...
There's not much to do in Chinle, Arizona besides play basketball or do drugs. Everyone in town knows where to find the purveyors of both activities; in an early scene in Basketball or Nothing, Chinle High School Athletic Director Shaun Martin shows us the overpass under which the meth heads like to hang out, and the stakes are crystal clear. The Chinle boys' basketball team doesn't just provide an outlet for this small group of high schoolers, it's an alternative to despair...
When Indian Horse opens on a Native family fleeing with white settlers in a canoe, you'd be excused for thinking this takes place several hundred years ago. After his brother dies and his parents leave to seek a Christian burial for their child, Saul Indian Horse and his grandmother struggle to survive the harsh Canadian winter. It's not until a '50s era Ford rolls into the frame that the actual time period becomes clear; this is taking place decades, not centuries, ago. The...
