A creator can BECOME an employer that appropriates someone’s labor, but that’s not being a creator in itself is. Us making passive money on book rights does not make us principally like the exploiting class in any sensible class analysis.

Native musicians! (Personal recs, there are more, please weigh in!)
Halluci Nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=232L...
Black Belt Eagle Scout www.youtube.com/channel/UCas... /9

Speaking of NOT ALL SAD, some native comedy:
Bad Indian, with Joshua Emerson /8 www.westword.com/arts-culture...

Unspoken (also a doc series) www.pbs.org/video/unspok...

(If anyone has more not-bummer podcasts, do chime in. Native life is NOT ALL SAD.)

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Podcasts! (Apologies for true crime emphasis, it's not all sad!)
Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
Return to Thunder Bay www.canadaland.com/shows/thunde...
All My Relations www.allmyrelationspodcast.com
@rebeccanagle.bsky.social's crooked.com/podcast-seri... /6

Even Welcome to Derry, which amends a big "magical Indian" problem in the Kingverse with native cast, directors and a historical consultant www.facebook.com/powwowscom/p... /4

Echo (Marvel but thoughtful)
Mohawk Girls (Like, uh, "Girls," sort of????)
Basketball or Nothing (Doc about a Mohawk h.s. team)
Prey (Great AND the best dog actor since The Thing)
Pow! (Animated short about a native nerdy teen, linked above by accident) /3

We're lucky enough to see a boom in indigenous pop culture. So you could watch:
Reservation Dogs (You've heard of this one)
Dark Winds (Native noir, so good)
Molly of Denali (You know, for kids!)
Rutherford Falls (New England indigenous rep!)
Spirit Rangers (Kids!)

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