The Tallgrass Artist Residency announced the groups of artists who will be visiting the great plains of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve this summer.
Non-profit news outlet Retro Report recently released a short film, , about the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island, which sparked a wave of Native American activism in the 1970s. Native News Online sat down with the film’s producer, Colleen Thurston (Choctaw Nation), to discuss how the occupation of Alcatraz was the beginning of the modern Indigenous rights era, what inspired her to create this film, and what she would like Native and non-Native audiences to gain from watching.
Shannon Spencer believes the right movies can be “food for the soul.” The Ndee (White Mountain Apache) and Diné (Navajo) member always dreamed of getting into the film business but