Reel Indigenous

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Green Feather Book Company, Words of the People, and Reel Indigenous Podcast presenting a live recording at the Native-owned bookstore in Norman, OK, featuring authors Chelsea Hicks and Joey Clift!

A Calm & Normal Heart and We've Been Here The Whole Time! are available at your favorite indie book store! Support Creative Natives and buy your copy today!

Our 4th annual Halloween Episode brings the bats! But not the Lou Diamond Phillips ones, the Nick Mancuso one.

Join us as we cuss and discuss the confusion and decide for yourself if this is one to add to the Halloween rotation schedule! And Happy Spooooky Halloween!

So tradish! Jason Asenap and Sunrise Tippeconnie look back at 2026 SWAIA Indian Market with its fashion and films. The Lords of the Plains discuss sling bags, riding your bike thru the Rio Grande and traveling to Tucumcari to attack tourists. Tune in for the fun!

First-time author Joey Clift shares why he wrote We've Been Here The Whole Time! and how writing a book is weird. Thanks for hanging out with us and remember to keep it Reel!

This week, playwright, actor, producer, and proud Diné Rhiana Yazzie sits down with Sunrise and Matt to talk theater, films, and being a cool person.

Zoe Leigh Hopkins joins Sunrise and Angela to talk about her career, starting with acting, then to editing and now to directing episodes of the award-winning Netflix series North of North. She talks about the importance of learning her language and all of the power that comes with it.

Back to deadCenter for the next round of interviews! We mix it up with Icon Loren Waters, Tulsa filmmaker Keith Daniels, and fashion icon Peshawn Bread, who lays down the law about AI. And remember, narrative sovereignty is the goal! #sunrisen #filmfestival #indigenous

Actor, writer, director, producer, graphic designer, but funny? Let's find out this week when Tai Leclaire visits with us.

Fresh off King of the Hill, we talk Rutherford Falls (!), the Best Holiday of the Year (Halloween, duh) and his upcoming film Cheyenne!

Meegwun Fairbrother has come a long way from Butterhead to playing an Osage family man in the new Little House on the Prairie series dropping on July 9. Charles Ingalls just got a new neighbor!

He joins us this week to talk about working with Sydney Freeland, learning Osage, and his upcoming projects.

It's deadCenter 2026 Part 1 - The Reckoning!

First, we got Blake Pickens and Caleb Vesely, who worked with Brenda Fisher and Chief Marchand Rice to share Chief's story of his life sentence and his journey into reconnecting with his heritage in a moving documentary that won Best Indigenous Festure at dC2026.

Next, we got Josiah Jones, whose documentary short Stankface Standing Soldier follows DJ and Mato Wayuhi, known for his work on Reservation Dogs. It can be seen on PBS In the Making American Masters Short Docs online.

Spend the next hour with Noetta, Angela and Sunrise flying their geek flags as we discuss the different types of conventions, their own convention experiences, cosplaying and the importance of being Native in these spaces. What cons have you gone to?

deadCenter Film Fest programmers Sunrise and Paris share their knowledge of the upcoming OKC film festival, with some pretty amazing films screening in Oklahoma City!

Lots of info on the films and how to see them this week!

Steven Paul Judd, director, writer, artist, currently writing and directing Dark Winds, finally joins us on the podcast this week. Special appearance by Ghost Will Sampson and the Bricktown IHOP (RIP).

We are thrilled to welcome Banchi Hanuse, Qwaxw Siwallace, and Q'umulha Schooner to the pod this week. They were nice enough to sit down with us at SXSW for a chat before winning the SWSX Documentary Audience Award!

The history of North America is littered with centuries of imperialism, and scars run deep. In Bella Coola, this story is even more harrowing than most. The Nuxalk Nation has seen attempts to wipe them out with smallpox, genocidal acts to steal their land, and now, the disappearance of the ooligan has been a major hit to the local customs. Ceremony tells the story of a people and a land, highlighting the ways that culture and the land remain as ingrained as ever.

Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale, citizen of the Navajo Nation, joins us this week to talk Dark Winds Season 4, from her Dine perspective. Dr. Denetdale is chair and a professor of American Studies at University of New Mexico, and brings her unique point of view to our ongoing discussion of this fan favorite show.

How many Indians are nominated for the 2026 Oscar Awards? More than we thought, but still, we are losing some steam on this front.

Our hosts debate who will win, who should win, and more this week!

Last year in Utah! And Sunrise went to say goodbye to all the Park City Pals. Matt joined virtually, and we got the scoop on the 2026 Final Park City Sundance!

February is made for love, and no one loves a love story more than our hosts. Which ones made the top of the list?

Our hosts watched the 1997 Shining so you don't have to, followed up by 2019's Doctor Sleep. And yes, Angela watched one with the sound muted.

Pod favs Cliff Curtis and Zahn McClarnon join the cast of Doctor Sleep to finish out Danny Torrance's story for an interesting addition to the King Universe.

How tropey does Derry get? Our hosts have all the feels about the new series on HBO Max. It takes us all back to the 60s and how Pennywise became the clown we all know and love?