Native Media

Don't know where to start with watching, listening to, reading, buying or supporting Alaskan Native, Native American, and Native Hawaiian peoples? This running list has media that is written, hosted, directed, or stars Native people, and Native accounts. It will change and update over time but my hope is that it serves as quick reference for individuals unsure how to get started!

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Last updated on 10/09/23

Movies / Documentaries / Series

  • Basketball or Nothing (TV series 2019)

  • Blood Quantum (2019 Horror)

  • The Canary Effect (2006 History/Documentary)

  • Chambers (TV series 2019)

  • Mikko (2015 Drama/Thriller)

  • Reservation Dogs (TV Series 2021)

  • Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017 Music/Documentary)

  • Rutherford Falls (TV Series 2020)

  • Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation (2017 Documentary)

  • Trickster (Canadian TV series 2020)

Books

  • As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock - Dina Gilio-Whitaker

  • Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • The Break - Katherena Vermette

  • Christi Belcourt Book -Christi Belcourt

  • Everything You Know about Indians is Wrong - Paul Chaat Smith

  • Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers - Jake Skeets

  • Fire Keeper’s Daughter -Angeline Boulley

  • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee - David Treuer

  • Heart Berries - Terese Marie Mailhot

  • A History of My Brief Body - Billy-Ray Belcourt

  • The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America - Thomas King

  • IRL - Tommy Pico

  • Jonny Appleseed - Joshua Whitehead

  • The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline

  • Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice

  • Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science - Kim TallBear

  • Native Fashion Now - Karen Kramer, Jay Calderin, Madeleine M. Kropa, Jessica R Metcalfe

  • The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones

  • Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance - Nick Estes

  • Pollution is Colonialism - Max Liboiron

  • The Power of Style - Christian Allaire

  • The Red Deal - The Red Nation

  • Son of a Trickster [The Trickster trilogy] - Eden Robinson

  • There There - Tommy Orange

  • When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz

Music Artists

  • Frank Waln

  • Sage Cornelius

  • A Tribe Called Red

Podcasts

  • A Smudge for Your Thoughts

  • All My Relations Podcast

  • Anishnaababes

  • Breakdances with Wolves: Indigenous Pirate Radio

  • The Indigenous Futures Podcast

  • Kobo in Conversation episode - Season 3: Billy-Ray Belcourt

  • Love To Sew episode:

    • Beadwork & Design with Kat Brown Akootchook

  • MEDIA INDIGENA

  • Medicine Talkers

  • The Modern Art Notes Podcast episode:

    • Dyani White Hawk, Si Lewen

  • NDN Science Show

  • “Ologies” episodes:

    • Bryology (MOSS) with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer

    • Indigenous Cuisinology (NATIVE COOKING) with Mariah Gladstone of Indigikitchen

    • Indigenous Fashionology (NATIVE CLOTHING) with Riley Kucheran

    • Indigenous Pedology (SOIL SCIENCE) with Lydia Jennings

  • Red Nation Podcast

  • Synergy-Cast episode - Beading is My Therapy with Elias Jade Not Afraid

  • This Land - Rebecca Nagle

  • Venture Out by EntrepreNorth

  • Well for Culture

Artists on Instagram

  • Adam Garnet Jones (@adamgarnetjones)

  • Alli Matchett (@allimatchett.beadwork)

  • Alutiiq Angels (@alutiiq_angels)

  • Sophia Rose (@bead.down.to.earth)

  • + Native Made Beadwork + (@beadifullight)

  • BeadsAgainstFascism (@beadsagainstfascism)

  • Blake Lepine Tlingit Artist (@blake_lepine_art)

  • Catherine Blackburn (@catherinebjewellery)

  • VB (@coppercanoewoman)

  • CrazyHorse Classics (@crazyhorseclassics)

  • Elias Jade Not Afraid (@eliasnotafraid)

  • LAUREN GOOD DAY (@laurengoodday)

  • Sarah Agaton Howes (@heartberry.co)

  • Inaadiziwin (@inaadiziwin)

  • indigo fox crafts (@indigofoxcrafts)

  • Sarah Ayaqi Whalen (@inkstitcher)

  • J A M I E O K U M A (@j.okuma)

  • JaDa Xbiyee (@jadacreations)

  • Jared Tso (@jaredtsopottery)

  • Jennifer Younger (@jennifers_copper_silver)

  • Joe Big Mountain (@joe.bigmtn)

  • JD Creations.House of Quills (@jordandraps)

  • JShine Designs (@jshinedesigns)

  • Kiani Brahmer (@kiiwiikine)

  • Garett Etsitty (@krng_1n3)

  • Jeremy dial (@longwhiskerbrass)

  • Makade Makwa Ikwe (@makwa.ikwe.designs)

  • Molina Parker (@molina_jo_parker)

  • Kianga Lucas (@mskianga)

  • Nalakwsis (They/Them) (@nalakwsis)

  • Jon David (@nativeanthro)

  • Nehiyanahk (@nehiyanahk_creations)

  • Niio Perkins (@niioperkinsdesigns)

  • Geo Soctomah Neptune (@niskapisuwin)

  • Nusmata (@nusmata)

  • Renae Al-Fdeilat (@penawapskewi_designs)

  • Matika Wilbur (@project_562)

  • Ryan RedCorn (@redcorn)

  • Beadwork by SKYE PAUL (@runningfoxbeads)

  • Ruby Asiinikwe Hendrickson (@swanberrydesigns)

  • Heather Steward (@sweetgrass_beads)

  • Danica Freeborn (@swtgrssbackup)

  • Tania Larsson (@tania.larsson)

  • The Beads Knees (@the.beads.knees)

  • Tiyóšpaye Beadwork (@tiyospaye_beadwork)

  • Jaymie Campbell (@whiteotterdesignco)