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Posted Saturday 1/08/22 at 3:11AM EST
Michael Greyeyes was “low-key terrified" with his Rutherford Falls role because he had never played a "fully empowered Indigenous man" before
Although Greyeyes was excited for his role, he admits some trepidation because his Terry Thomas character was something he had...
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Posted Thursday 12/02/21 at 8:59PM EST
Reservation Dogs co-creator Sterlin Harjo is developing an FX heist miniseries with a Native female lead
Harjo is writing the untitled series with bestselling novelist Jonathan Lee.
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Posted Thursday 11/25/21 at 5:11AM EST
Black Native Americans call out Reservation Dogs for failing to include their lived experiences
"FX on Hulu regarded Reservation Dogs as 'the first show on cable television in which all the writers, directors and...
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Reservation Dogs renewed for Season 2
FX on Hulu has picked up a second season of the acclaimed Native American teen comedy created by Sterlin Harjo...
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Posted Friday 8/27/21 at 12:38PM EDT
Paramount+ developing Native American drama series Yellow Bird from Reservation Dogs co-creator
The streaming service has won the rights to Sierra Crane Murdoch’s Pulitzer Prize-finalist book Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder and a...
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Posted Tuesday 8/10/21 at 2:29AM EDT
FX on Hulu's Reservation Dogs feels like something special -- but you have to get used to its deliberate pace
"It takes some time to adjust to the tempo of Reservation Dogs," says Kathryn VanArendonk says of the Native American...
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Reservation Dogs Is a Welcome Addition to the Coming-of-Age Genre
The question of personal responsibility sits at the heart of Reservation Dogs, Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s new FX series.
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Bravo edits Real Housewives of Atlanta episode over Kenya Moore's offensive Native American costume
The March 21 episode of the Bravo reality show drew backlash and prompted Moore to apologize for wearing a "disrespectful...
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Posted Friday 5/21/21 at 1:28AM EDT
Native American groups hold a "Day of Action" to protest CNN for not firing Rick Santorum over his "Native erasure"
Throughout Thursday, Native Americans used the #RemoveRick hashtag on Twitter to try to pressure CNN to fire the poltical commentator...
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Posted Wednesday 5/05/21 at 2:21AM EDT
Rutherford Falls co-creator and showrunner on Rick Santorum: How does he keep failing up?
Sierra Teller Ornelas, the Navajo-American and Mexican-American co-creator of TV's first Native American sitcom, wonders why the CNN commentator can...
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The Rutherford Falls paradox: Did the first Native American sitcom need to have Ed Helms as lead?
"In one sense, there has never been a show like Rutherford Falls before," says Nick Martin, who is Native American.
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Posted Friday 4/23/21 at 1:49AM EDT
Peacock's Rutherford Falls is ambitious, but it would be better without the same old Michael Schur-style protagonist
The Peacock comedy Schur co-created with Sierra Teller Ornelas and Ed Helms "has all the makings of a typical Michael...
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Posted Monday 4/05/21 at 2:15PM EDT
Grey's Anatomy makes Robert I. Mesa its first indigenous doctor on the show
Mesa, a Navajo/Mesa actor who made his debut earlier this season as intern James Chee, has been elevated to the...
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Posted Thursday 4/01/21 at 10:03PM EDT
Mark-Paul Gosselaar felt uncomfortable revisiting Zack Morris mocking of Native Americans on Saved by the Bell
Gosselaar, who rewatched the 1990 episode as part of his Zack to the Future podcast, said he had forgotten about...
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Posted Saturday 12/12/20 at 3:37AM EST
Big Sky and Lovecraft Country controversies raise concerns about Native American representation in TV
In September, Lovecraft Country's Misha Green admitted the show "failed" after facing backlash for HBO depicting an Arawakan Two-Spirit character...