(Re)Imagine Indigenous Theater with Seattle Rep
Seattle Rep is hosting a free online panel discussion about the future of Indigenous theater on Thursday, November 19th at 5 p.m. What would theater look like in the United States if it was shaped by indigenous communities and upheld tribal sovereignty? How are storytelling, land, and community linked when led by indigenous knowledge, expertise, and tradition? Get ready for the conversation with these related books, videos and websites in the Library's collection and beyond.
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Native American Playwrights Practicing Public History: New Wave History Plays
In this post, Laurie Arnold (Sinixt Band, Colville Confederated Tribes) describes how Indigenous playwrights are remaking American theater with historical narratives that general audiences have either forgotten or never learned.
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Native American Tribal Theatre -- Barbara Greenwald Memorial Arts Program featuring William Yellow Robe, Jr.
On Dec. 5, 2013, William Yellow Robe, Jr (Assiniboine) discussed producing and creating a new relationship between a colonial art medium and Indigenous Tribal nations from his perspective as a Native playwright, director and actor.
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Native American Women Playwrights Archive
The Native American Women Playwrights Archive is a collection of original materials by Indigenous women playwrights of the Americas. It is housed in Walter Havighurst Special Collections at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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A Native Drag Artist Wants Land Acknowledgments To Matter -- Crosscut
Seattle-based Indgiqueer drag performer and fiber/visual artist Hailey Tayathy (Quileute) discusses their work and the importance of meaningful land acknowledgments in this interview with local news nonprofit Crosscut.
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Native Land Mapping Project
Learn whose land you inhabit with this interactive virtual map that shows the traditional lands and territories of Indigenous peoples worldwide. This website is run by Native Land Digital, an Indigenous-led nonprofit based in Canada.
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Native Seattle
This history of Seattle’s Indigenous communities documents the experiences of the Duwamish and other Native inhabitants of this land from before white settlers arrived to the present day. Includes an atlas mapping over 100 Indigenous place names.
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Native Theatre in America: From OSF to Broadway at the 2018 National Theatre Conference
This panel discussion at the 2018 National Theatre Conference featured prominent Indigenous theater artists including DeLanna Studi (Cherokee), Jake Hart (Blackfeet/Cherokee), Tanis Parenteau (Cree/Métis), and Muriel Miguel (Kuna/Rappahannock).
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Red Eagle Soaring
Since 1991, Red Eagle Soaring has mentored hundreds of Native youth, staged over 170 productions, and supported youth access to the healing power of Native cultural traditions which promote social, physical, and intellectual engagement.
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Salmon Is Everything
After a devastating fish kill on the Klamath River in 2002, members of the Yurok, Hoopa Valley, and Karuk tribes and playwright Theresa May collaborated on a play to give voice to the central spiritual and cultural role of salmon in tribal life.
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Sovereignty
Sovereignty, the latest work from playwright and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee), reflects on Indigenous nations' struggles to enforce their own laws on their own land.
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