The hosts look back on the year that was 2023. It was quite the year. Strikes and award noms; series ends and box office gold. We list our top three from 2023 and ask the question: will this momentum continue? What were your Top 3 moments in Indigenous media?

Happy holidays from our crew to yours! We celebrate the season with a look at 2001's Christmas in the Clouds, featuring Graham Greene, Sheila Tousey and Wes Studi. It's a fun little Christmas mistaken-identity romp through a snow-less ski resort. Full of quirky characters and a vegan chef, Christmas in the Clouds has some problems, but overall is a fun watch.

Our hosts discuss The Band, Robbie Robertson, Martin Scorsese and more. Which Woodstock was the muddy one? Which Robertson album is the best? Tune in as we pay tribute to this legend.

link to concert mentioned in episode:

https://youtu.be/B5reZbdkRto?si=BjXNy1Q6dAXXu8Ak

https://youtu.be/mKbX4q5IbR8?si=9SoCTtcBU5h5VQ8n

thanks for listening. And remember so t just keep it real, keep it

REEL INDIGENOUS

Mohegan theater-maker Madeline Sayet joins us for an intimate visit about her one-person show traveling with the Folgers's Shakespeare, her pink hat, how she has no idea how to self-care, and what it's like to be the lone Native in the theater space, fighting to be heard. She even shares a scene from Where We Belong, the story of her travel to England, retracing her Mohegan ancestors visits there during the early days of colonialism.

Learn more about Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program by visiting yipap.yale.edu.

We are so excited to welcome the director of the hottest film on Netflix right now: Frybread Face and Me. Billy Luther shares about his first feature film, how they found the actors, and how the Navajo crew was a total game-changer for creating this beautiful world.

This week we talk about the HBO Documentary "Navajo Police: Class 57," that follows real-life Navajo recruits as they learn what it takes to be law enforcement on the largest reservation on the continent. Do you have what it takes to make it?

We're doing our thing and talking about the new trailer for the Marvel series Echo.

She's Choctaw, and she's a bad a, and she's a villain. And the Choctaw Nation is joining the world of Nation-specific media that is capturing the attention of the nation. Aho!

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Our resident Osage citizen Candice Byrd-Boney leads the group in a discussion of the feature film Killers of the Flower Moon, the epic directed by Martin Scorsese and filmed in Oklahoma with the Osage Nation as consultant.

We have thoughts.

Reel Indigie Book Talk Time with award-winning author Oscar Hokeah. His debut novel spans a lifetime and gives us one of the most Oklahoma NDN stories ever.

Oscar even treats us to a reading during this interview with Candice, Angela and Monica. Enjoy!

Sunrise, Matt and Angela look at the final episodes of Reservation Dogs and discuss the impact this groundbreaking series will have on the future of Indigenous media. Our lives have forever been changed because if it.