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, ...

“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 ...

Actress Sarah Podemski sees much kinship between indigenous communities and the Jewish people, particularly when it comes to humor. She would know, after all: she was born in Canada to an Anishinaabe ...

In a dramatic moment of the “Reservation Dogs” pilot, a car with tinted windows rolls up on the Dogs, a crew of four teenage petty thieves living on a Native American reservation in Oklahoma. In slow ...

THE shaggy background of our country is gradually edging into the foreground. Writers and anthologists —all very busy, ingenious, and inspired have put the neon to the homespun, and we are asked to ...

Native American writer-director Taietsarón:sere “Tai” Leclaire (Mohawk/Mi’kmaq) has several reasons to celebrate this year’s Sundance Film Festival. For starters, he’ll be debuting his film Headdress ...

Pawnee and Choctaw rappers Lil Mike and Funny Bone — known together as Mike Bone — rap their song “Rain Dance” at NSO Entertainment’s third sold-out Native Comedy Jam Saturday, Feb. 5, at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...