“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...