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Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A one-act satirical comedy about four white people trying to devise a politically correct First Thanksgiving play for Native American Heritage Month to be done in the schools. The director, Logan, hires a Native American actor to be their cultural compass. As Logan, Jaxton, and Caden defer to her for guidance, it is revealed that she is white and only plays Native American when she isn't playing other ethnicities. Without the Native voice, these four...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A collection of six plays, uses a melange of voices to invoke the myths and realities of modern Native American life. The author intermixes poetry and prose to address themes of gender, generational relationships, acculturation, myth, and tensions between Christianity and traditional Native American belief systems.
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In The Thanksgiving Play, a group of well-intentioned white teaching artists scramble to create an ambitious "woke" Thanksgiving pageant that also celebrates Native American Heritage Month. Amidst their eagerness to put on the most culturally sensitive show possible, things quickly begin to devolve into the absurd, showing how even those with good intentions can be undone by their own blind spots. Inspired by historical interest in the KKK's collaborations...
16) Little Bird
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
17) Wind River
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation." --
19) Yellow Rock
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Five men ride into the eerie town of Yellow Rock, hoping to rescue a family member and his lost boy. They must fight wild animals, the elements, and eventually each other, as the dangerous journey unfolds.
20) Flaming star
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Set in west Texas in the years after the Civil War, this is the story of a half-breed who's mother is an Indian and whose father is white who is torn between two worlds. After an Indian uprising, his problems mount as he is feared by the whites, mistrusted by Indians and hunted by both.
