Native writer and director Joey Clift joins Native Bidaské to discuss his animated short film Pow, featuring an all-Native cast and crew. Discover how humor, tradition, and modern life come together ...

When Raquel Quinones first dove into the world of content creation, she had no idea how to identify herself in the digital landscape. “Should I be who I want to be or who my audience wanted me to be?” ...

Actress Sarah Podemski sees much kinship between indigenous communities and the Jewish people, particularly when it comes to humor. She would know, after all: she was born in Canada to an Anishinaabe ...

Joey Clift tries not to dwell too much on Facebook comments, but a few years ago, one kept nagging him. As the Washington NFL team reckoned with its derogatory name and underwent a rebranding, Clift ...

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith had never visited a gallery or art museum before college, but that didn’t deter her from pursuing her passion. Throughout her career, the artist’s work has hung everywhere ...

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 ...

Humor plays an important role in American Indian cultures, said Mike Jetty, Indian education specialist with Montana Office of Public Instruction. “Humor is weaved through tribal culture,” he said, ...

There long existed a popular myth that Native people have no sense of humor. They have been thought by outsiders to be stolid, always serious and rarely given to outbursts of laughter. Like so many ...

Native American writer-director Taietsarón:sere “Tai” Leclaire (Mohawk/Mi’kmaq) has several reasons to celebrate this year’s Sundance Film Festival. For starters, he’ll be debuting his film Headdress ...

Hollywood has been brutal to Indigenous peoples since essentially the invention of cinema: White, male filmmakers have, more often than not, used their power to depict us as rage-filled, vengeful, ...