Native activists are using comedy to fight cultural invisibility and structural oppression. Native comedy has been around since, well, the beginning. The roots of Native humor are deep and ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Trish Cook is an Anishinaabe comedian. She is premiering her sold out show "Death, Grief and Dying: Indigenous Humor While Crying" at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. EMILY BRIGHT: Well, maybe you ...

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, ...

Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi — the co-creators of “Reservation Dogs” — met in the mid-aughts, and though Harjo is from Oklahoma and Waititi grew up in New Zealand, they immediately bonded over ...

When Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper in the 1490s, he probably didn’t foresee that, centuries later, a Native American artist would appropriate this piece of the collective consciousness to ...

Yellow Springs resident Joel Moss Levinson, a Dayton native and head of content at Rize Education, was a source of fun during his March 17 appearance on “Jeopardy!” In the interview segment, host Ken ...

This new dark comedy, created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, upends the usual Hollywood clichés about Native Americans, not least by having Native writers and actors tell the story. By Stuart ...