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Rez Ball
''Rez Ball'' is a 2024 American sports drama film directed by Sydney Freeland, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sterlin Harjo, based on the nonfiction sports novel ''Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation'', by ''The New York Times'' journalist Michael Powell. LeBron James served as one of the producers. The film features an ensemble cast, including Kauchani Bratt, Jessica Matten, Julia Jones, Amber Midthunder, and Kiowa Gordon. The Chuska Warriors, a Native American high school basketball team from Chuska, New Mexico, is competing for the state championship title while contending with losing their star player. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2024, and was released on Netflix on September 27, 2024. Plot For the first time in years, the Chuska Warriors, a Navajo reservation Native American high school basketball team from Chuska, New Mexico, starts the season with a good chance to compete for the state ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Freeland
Sydney Freeland (born October 29, 1980) is a Native American filmmaker. She is a citizen of the Navajo Nation. She wrote and directed the film '' Drunktown's Finest'' (2014), which garnered numerous acclaims after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Her second film, '' Deidra & Laney Rob a Train'', debuted at Sundance and was released on Netflix in 2017; her third, '' Rez Ball'', released in 2024. Early life Freeland was born in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1980 to a Navajo father and a Scottish mother, and she was raised on a Navajo Reservation. Freeland attended Academy of Art University in San Francisco and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in computer animation and a Master of Fine Arts in film. She is a 2004 Fulbright scholar, who focused her scholarship on a field study of Indigenous peoples in Ecuador. Freeland received a 2007 Disney Scholarship and was a 2008 Disney Fellowship semifinalist. Freeland is also a 2009 Sundance Institute Native Lab fellow. Career Prior to ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyramid Lake Paiute
The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Reservation () is an Indian Reservation in northwestern Nevada, approximately northeast of Reno, in Washoe, Storey, and Lyon counties. It is governed by the federally recognized Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, which represents two Northern Paiute bands, the larger Kuyuidökadö (Cui Yui Ticutta) ("Cui-ui-Fish-Eaters") and the smaller Tasiget tuviwarai ("Those who live amidst the mountains"). The reservation lies almost entirely in Washoe County (99.88%), with small amounts of land in the other two counties (at the southern end, near the city of Fernley). In 1993, the population of the reservation was 1,603 individuals. At that time there were 2,253 enrolled members of the tribe. The 2000 census reported a population of 1,734 on the reservation. Together with the Walker River Paiute tribe (two Northern Paiute bands: ''Aga'idökadö (Agai Ticutta)'': "Cutthroat trout Eaters", and ''Pakwidökadö (Pugwi Ticutta)'': "Chub carp Eaters"), in 2016 the Py ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samson Cree Nation
The Samson Cree Nation, () also known as the Samson First Nation, is one of four band governments in the area of Maskwacis, Alberta, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun .... Indian Reserves Three Indian Reserves are governed by the band: * Samson Indian Reserve No. 137 *Samson Indian Reserve No. 137A * Pigeon Lake 138A Pigeon Lake IR No. 138A is shared with the Louis Bull First Nation, the Montana First Nation and the Ermineskin Cree Nation References External linksOfficial Samson Cree Nation Website {{Authority control First Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cody Lightning
Cody Lightning (born August 8, 1986) is a Cree actor and filmmaker from Edmonton, Treaty 6, Alberta, Canada. He is the son of film director and actress Georgina Lightning and brother of actors Crystle Lightning and William Lightning. He was a Young Artist Award nominee in 1999 for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actor, for ''Smoke Signals'' (1998), and won the American Indian Film Festival award for Best Actor in 2007 for ''Four Sheets to the Wind''. In 2023 he wrote, directed and starred in his directorial debut film '' Hey, Viktor!'', a mockumentary in which a fictionalized version of himself struggles to reestablish his faded career as an actor by creating his own sequel to ''Smoke Signals''. In 2024 he received two Canadian Screen Award nominations for his work on the film, for Best Lead Performance in a Comedy Film and Best Original Screenplay, at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards The 12th Canadian Screen Awards were presented by the Academy of Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hualapai
The Hualapai ( , ) are a federally recognized Native American tribe in Arizona with about 2300 enrolled citizens. Approximately 1353 enrolled citizens reside on the Hualapai Reservation, which spans over three counties in Northern Arizona ( Coconino, Yavapai, and Mohave). The name, meaning "people of the tall pines", is derived from , the Hualapai word for ponderosa pineThe Hualapai Tribe Website Accessed 2020-01-16 and "people". Their traditional territory is a stretch along the pine-clad southern side of the and the with the tribal capital at [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mdewakanton Dakota
The Mdewakanton or Mdewakantonwan (also spelled ''Mdewákhaŋthuŋwaŋ'' and currently pronounced ''Bdewákhaŋthuŋwaŋ'') are one of the sub-tribes of the Isanti (Santee) Dakota (Sioux). Their historic home is Mille Lacs Lake (Dakota: ''Mde Wákhaŋ/Bde Wákhaŋ'', Spirit/Mystic Lake) in central Minnesota. Together with the Wahpekute (''Waȟpékhute'' – "Shooters Among the Trees"), they form the so-called ''Upper Council'' of the Dakota or Santee Sioux (''Isáŋyáthi'' – "Knife Makers"). Today their descendants are members of federally recognized tribes in Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska of the United States, and First Nations in Manitoba, Canada. History Tradition has it that the Mdewakanton were the leading tribe of ''Očhéthi Šakówiŋ.'' Their Siouan-speaking ancestors may have migrated to the upper Midwest from further south and east. Over the years they migrated up through present-day Ohio and into Wisconsin. Seven Sioux tribes formed an alliance, which they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Goldtooth
Dallas Goldtooth (Mdewakanton Dakota/Diné, born May 3, 1983) is a Native Americans in the United States, Native American (Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, Sioux) environmental activist and performing artist. He is a co-founding member of the 1491s, a Native American sketch comedy group and a member of the cast of the television series ''Reservation Dogs''. He is a Dakota language-instructor, writer, artist, and actor. Personal life Dallas Goldtooth was born on May 3, 1983. He is Dakota people, Dakota, Navajo, Dine, Ho-Chunk, Hochunk and German. He is an enrolled member of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, Lower Sioux Indian Community and a descendant of the Navajo people. His father is Tom B.K. Goldtooth (Diné). His mother is Hope Ann Two Hearts, née Neis. His stepfather was Galen Drapeau Sr., Ihanktonwan Dakota, a medicine man and Vietnam veteran. Dallas grew up on the Yankton Sioux Tribe, Yankton Sioux and Lower Sioux Indian Reservations, and spent summers i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puyallup Tribe Of Indians
The Puyallup Tribe of Indians ( ; ; commonly known as the Puyallup Tribe) is a federally-recognized tribe of Puyallup people from western Washington state, United States. The tribe is primarily located on the Puyallup Indian Reservation, although they also control off-reservation trust lands. The Puyallup Tribe was established in 1936 after the Indian Reorganization Act, although the reservation was established in 1854 in the Treaty of Medicine Creek. Currently, the tribe has approximately 4,000 citizens. Its membership is descended from the aboriginal Puyallup peoples, as well as other non-Puyallup peoples who were moved to the reservation. Other Puyallup citizens are descendants of other tribes. The population of Puyallup citizens who reside on the reservation is 2,500, which is 3.2% of the reservation's 41,000 total population. The tribe's government is enshrined in its constitution, and is composed of an elected government, the Puyallup Tribal Council, and the three tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diné
The Navajo or Diné are an Native Americans in the United States, Indigenous people of the Southwestern United States. Their traditional language is Navajo language, Diné bizaad, a Southern Athabascan language. The states with the largest Diné populations are Arizona (140,263) and New Mexico (108,305). More than three-quarters of the Diné population resides in these two states.American Factfinder United States Census Bureau The overwhelming majority of Diné are enrolled in the Navajo Nation. Some Diné are enrolled in the Colorado River Indian Tribes, another federally recognized tribe. With more than 399,494Becenti, Arlyssa [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smudging
Smudging, or other rites involving the burning of sacred herbs (e.g., white sage) or resins, is a ceremony practiced by some Indigenous peoples of the Americas. While it bears some resemblance to other ceremonies and rituals involving smoke (e.g., Indigenous Australian smoking ceremony, some types of saining) from other world cultures, notably those that use smoke for spiritual cleansing or blessing, the purposes and particulars of the ceremonies, and the substances used, can vary widely among tribes, bands, and nations, and even more so among different world cultures. In traditional communities, Elders maintain the protocols around these ceremonies and provide culturally specific guidance. The smudging ceremony, by various names, has been used by others outside of the Indigenous communities as part of New Age or commercial practices, which has also led to the over-harvesting of some of the plants used in ceremonies. Indigenous people in the US and Canada have argued against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
