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W hen Nate Newton, bassist for the band Converge, first learned how steep the suicide rate among Native American teens was, he was shocked. “I was like, ‘That can’t be right. That’s so absolutely fucked up,’” he tells Rolling Stone. Native Americans have the highest suicide rate of any ethnic …

W hen Lily Gladstone was growing up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in rural Montana, acting in plays was an escape from bullies, who targeted her for being “verbose and goofy.” The idea came from her father, a Native man of Piegan Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage, whom she describes …

All of the signaling around Echo has suggested yet another Marvel Cinematic Universe fiasco in a long line of them in the years since Avengers: Endgame. The miniseries, spinning off a supporting character from 2021’s Hawkeye, was originally set to premiere last November, then got pushed back to an early …

Before he wrote the book Killers of the Flower Moon, author David Grann paid a visit to Oklahoma and the Osage Nation in 2012. He found himself in the local museumlooking at a big panoramic photo of the Osage tribe and some white settlers. But a panel was missing from …

O n a November evening in 2019, Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese and about a dozen members of his production team for Killers of the Flower Moon settled into folding chairs in a wood-paneled community hall in the Osage Nation in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. They had flown more than 1,300 miles after …

This post contains spoilers for the Reservation Dogs series finale, which is now streaming on Hulu. Two weeks ago, Reservation Dogs dropped an episode that could have easily functioned as a series finale. It featured callbacks galore, a full-circle moment where Bear invites Jackie’s crew to join the Rez Dogs, …

This post contains spoilers for the series finale of Reservation Dogs, which we recapped here. The finale is now streaming on Hulu. Why? This seems to be the most pressing question for Reservation Dogs co-creator Sterlin Harjo. The Indigenous teen comedy just finished its third and final season, having only …

This post contains spoilers for “Elora’s Dad,” this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, which is now streaming on Hulu. Ethan Hawke. That’s it. That’s the review. No, no, no. Allow me to start over. Ethan Hawke and Devery Jacobs. That’s it. That’s the review. I started with Hawke not as …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, “Send It,” which is now streaming on Hulu. If you’re a Reservation Dogs fan who didn’t know that there are still two episodes to go, it would be hard to blame you for assuming that “Send It” was the …

This post contains spoilers for “Wahoo!,” this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, which is now streaming on Hulu. Among the great things about Reservation Dogs is that there are no strict storytelling rules. Anything goes in a series which easily toggles between kitchen sink drama, magical realism, and broad comedy, …