“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

1. Red/White American -- 2. Historical Slippage -- 3. Playing Indian -- 4. Old Tricks, New Twists -- 5. Feminist Indi'ns -- 6. "Bring Her Home": Louise Erdrich -- 7. Red Gods, Blue Humors: James Welch ...

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 ...

Whether in a somber National Portrait Gallery performance or in her wry takes on Native humor, Anna Tsouhlarakis follows her heart Anna Tsouhlarakis was a self-described “math and science nerd” in ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.6.2.0285 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/studamerhumor.6.2.0285 Copy URL JOHN WHARTON LOWE is Barbara Lester Methvin ...