5 years, 5 months ago

With Alaskan Native Lead, 'Molly Of Denali' Breaks New Ground

NPR

With Alaskan Native Lead, 'Molly Of Denali' Breaks New Ground SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: And finally today, a new show on PBS is breaking new ground in the world of children's television. "Molly Of Denali" is the first nationally distributed children's series to showcase an Alaskan Native lead character. I mean, Qyah's a very diverse place, and we really wanted to show the world that our rural communities in Alaska are very diverse. MCCAMMON: That's Princess Johnson, the creative producer of "Molly Of Denali," the first nationally-distributed children's series with an Alaska Native lead, and Dorothea Gillim, the show's executive producer.

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4 years, 9 months ago

Native Americans have long been Hollywood outsiders. That’s changing in New Mexico

LA Times

Looking out of his office window out to the big sky and Sangre de Cristo mountains that surround New Mexico’s Tesuque Pueblo, Timothy J. Although New Mexico’s native people have been captured on film since the 19th century, tribal leaders felt that native people haven’t always benefited from Hollywood. Television How ‘Molly of Denali’ helps Native American children feel seen …

5 years, 2 months ago

Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse is taking down white wokeness

LA Times

Playwright Larissa FastHorse is sorry for ruining your Thanksgiving. “The Thanksgiving Play” has been slated for Tampa’s Jobsite Theater, the Lyric Stage Company of Boston and Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, S.C., among others, making FastHorse the first Native American or indigenous playwright to appear on the list. “They were very much watering things down to a point that I just …

5 years, 2 months ago

How ‘Molly of Denali’ helps Native American children feel seen

LA Times

From white people in brownface to the “noble savage” — or just plain savage — the portrayal of Native Americans in mainstream TV and movies has long been one-dimensional and stereotypical, if they’re even shown at all. One of the show’s goals is to spread Alaska Native values such as “living in balance with the land,” said creative producer and …