New friend of the pod Amelia Winger-Bearskin gets personal about artificial intelligence and new technology to share the stories she grew up hearing at her grandmother's knee. A citizen of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, her installation I Would LIke to be Midnight/I Would Like to be Sky examines who owns the sky.

In this episode, we chat it up live during Litfest in Tulsa, OK. with the talented Mona Susan Power, Esq (Standing Rock Sioux). Her newest novel, "A Council of Dolls" has recently dropped and so we get blessed with her reading and discussing her writing, as well as giving us some to As to our Qs.

And this episodes guest star is Dr. Lindsey Claire Smith, the goddess of Litfest, who introduces Mona and joins in the conversation.

To purchase "A Council of Dolls", you can get it here or wherever all fine books are sold:

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-council-of-dolls-mona-susan-power?variant=40976837345314

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The music is:

"Kanomi" by the Chahta vba isht Taloa cocophony orchestra consort

And remember, whether you're a doll or a living being, don't just keep it real, keep it

REEL INDIGENOUS!

Donick Cary is a legacy fan of the Washington Football team. One day, son Otis asked him about the name. That conversation turned into the documentary Hail to the Breadsticks, winner of the Best Oklahoma Documentary at deadCenter Film Festival. Donick shares his journey through Indian Country as he discusses the name with some of our favs, including Graham Greene, Sterlin Harjo, Joey Clift, Steven Paul Judd, Tommy Orange, and many more. Check our LinkTree for more info on the initiative to change mascot names!

Fancy Dance will be at a theater near you soon! To celebrate, and to recover after deadCenter 2024, we present our interview with writer/director Erica Tremblay in 2023.

We continue our Host Interviews this week with Monica Brain, former journalist, current broadband advocate and raccoon enthusiast.

Our wide-ranging discussion covers the hands, morals and ethics of trash pandas, the Apes movies, Yoda, and the importance of digital equity across Indian Country.

Paris Burris, shorts programmer for deadCenter Film Fest, gives Matt and Angela the scoop on films and parties coming up June 6-9 in Oklahoma City. This is a great chance to get your passes, or volunteer, to network with some of the industry's movers and shakers!

Author Weyodi OldBear joins us this week to talk about all of the writing projects she is working, including Coyote and Crow RPG, five novels, a graphic novel, and more. She talks about the intricacies of world-building for Natives in the future, and why we are so enthralled with apocalyptic stories.

Girl-on-girl violence, racism, great soundtrack, chokers...the Hulu series Under the Bridge has the 90s all over it. Our hosts discuss the first episodes of the series starring Lily Gladstone and Riley Keogh and how very Canadian it all seems.

We had a blast at IPX this year! Noetta got some fun interviews, and Angela moderated the Reservation Dogs panel. We all shopped and marveled at the Cosplayers, who get better every year!

In this episode, we turn the microphone on Matt "Lowdown" Barse as he talks about his new short film, "Distance" and his journey of how he got to becoming a filmmaker.

Check out his film, "Distance" on the film festival circuits. It will be playing:

Sunday May 4 at 6:45 PM at the Barebones Film Festival in Muscogee, OK.

Go check it out!

Catch Matt on the various socials:

@lowdownent

https://www.youtube.com/@MattBarse

The music is: "UcanDanz2it" by the Chahta vba isht Taloa cocophony orchestra consort

And whether you're close or keeping a distance, don't just keep it real, keep it

REEL INDIGENOUS!

Chris Cote, Osage language consultant for Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, joins our hosts to talk Oscars!

Na Na Ping joins guest host Adrienne Lalli Hills and Angela to discuss proposed changes to the Indian Arts and Crafts Act by the BIA. Reel Indigenous does not take policy positions. The views expressed are those of the individuals.

In this episode, we get to talking about the final 3 episodes of TRUE DETECTIVES: NIGHT COUNTRY, and how Aunties regulate.

Angela, Matt, Sunrise and tvli join in on the conversation.

Monica chopped the episode together

Whoever showed up, produced.

The music is "AAAAYYYY!!!!" by the Chahta vba isht Taloa cocophony orchestra consort

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So, whether you're in the night country, day country or just gone country, don't just keep it real, keep it

REEL INDIGENOUS!

The Original Indigenous Comic Con is back in Oklahoma for 2024 and we have the deets! Get your fav cosplay ready, gather the family and join the Reservation Dogs, Eugene Brave Rock, the OKC Ghostbusters, Huncles Yancey Red Corn and Brent Greenwood, and more April 12-14.

In this episode, we chat it up with Nico Albert and Kyle Williams, the dynamic duo of the metal group, Medicine Horse. They share their music and advice and all the great things that they do.

Thanks for listening. And after you listen, go out and buy their self-titled debut album, Medicine Horse and the Cherokee compilation album, Anvdvnelisgi.

Also, for those of you who are interested in Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness, check it out here:

https://www.burningcedar.org/

You can jam out to their music here:

https://orcd.co/medicinehorse?fbclid=IwAR20pJbsZ9Mv6LJdp3TYfobCFIgBxjB6hIVRXMyHh6Q_lWgvw6tPcJyQTBo

check out there socials to catch them live in a town near you:

https://www.facebook.com/medicinehorse918/

https://www.instagram.com/medicinehorse918/

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Whether you're rocking out, banging your head, or just sitting back and enjoying easy listening music, make sure you don't just keep it real, you keep it

REEL INDIGENOUS!

It took us a minute. Sunrise got sick, then was back on the festival circuit, but we finally got Matt and Sunrise to sit down for a bit and talk about the Sundance Film Festival and the few Indigenous movies they got to see.

They also talk about the short film, "Kicking the Clouds". A beautiful movie that you can watch here:

http://www.skyhopinka.com/kicking-the-clouds

also here is the link to the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report:

https://www.bia.gov/sites/default/files/dup/inline-files/bsi_investigative_report_may_2022_508.pdf

Also, here's a list of Indigenous film offerings at Sundance. If these movies play at a venue near you, please go see them:

https://festival.sundance.org/blogs/your-guide-to-the-indigenous-works-at-the-2024-sundance-film-festival/

The music, I guess, is canned music. Not sure where it came from, but it kinda jams, right?

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This episode was edited by Matt Barse

So, whether you sundance with wolves or do some dirty dancing with wolves, don't just keep it real, keep it

REEL INDIGENOUS!

A bonus Oscars episode for your listening pleasure. Just four filmies discussing random categories of the upcoming awards ceremony and their thoughts on some of the nominees.

All of that Choctaw spirit we saw and loved in Echo? We can trace it back to a podcast fav: Peshawn Bread. What can't they do? Direct, produce, model, they do it all and we are here for it!

Peshawn shares the lengths they went to during the shoot, specifically the stickball game and powwow, to make our Choctaw friends and family part of the now-canon origan of Maya Lopez in the Marvel MCU. Get your cup, because we are sipping the tea!

Guess how excited Angela is about Season 4 of True Detective! First Alaska Daily and now this? Inupiaq on the rise!

Be sure to hear Monica's dating profile masterpiece, lots of speculation on the plots, and the discussion of the true meaning of this series: the MMIW crises in Alaska and beyond. There is some discussion of assault, so please take care of yourself when listening.

Echo has made its mark on Tamaha, Oklahoma, as Maya comes home. How did our Creative Natives wrap up the first season of Choctaw Hero Maya?

Angela, Matt and tvli chat it up.

The music is

"Dangerous Banaha" by the Chahta vba isht Taloa cocophony orchestra consort

And remember kids, don't just keep it real, keep it

REEL INDIGENOUS!