Behind the buckskin curtain w/ Jana Schmieding (pt. 1)

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Lakota writer, actor, and comedian Jana Schmieding pulls back the buckskin curtain on the politics of Natives in film and entertainment. In the first part of this interview, we review the final episode "Ghost Dance" in the TNT series Into the West (2005). In the second part of the interview, we review the Westworld episode "Kiksuya" (2018).

Ali Nahdee on the "Aila Test": https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-interview-the-aila-test-evaluates-representation-of-indigenous-women-in-media

Find Jana's work here: http://www.janaschmieding.com

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0:00.0	And So today we're here with Jana Schmeting who is a writer and a performer and today we're going to talk about natives and TV.
0:35.0	So, Janet, do you want to introduce yourself?
0:37.6	You have quite the bio.
0:39.5	You probably like the most famous person
0:41.4	that nobody knows on that's ever come to my podcast.
0:44.3	Well you're the most famous person that I mean in terms of like my
0:52.0	worldview you're pretty famous you're up there.
0:56.0	Yeah my name is Janna I am born and raised in Oregon.
1:05.5	I'm both Minakaju and Chichangu,
1:10.5	Lakota.
1:21.3	And I was an educator, public educator in New York City for a decade after college where I studied theater arts and like Theater of the Oppressed and then I moved to
1:30.8	Los Angeles to try a hand at screenwriting and got a job working on the first.
1:40.0	I was also a comedian in New York City.
1:41.4	I was studying a lot of sketch comedy and
1:43.2	improv comedy and solo performance and performing quite a bit and
1:51.1	when I moved to Los Angeles I got hired as a staff writer on the show that is in
1:58.0	production right now called Rutherford Falls.
2:00.6	It is the first native sitcom that has ever been on TV and then I got cast as the lead
2:11.6	with Ed Helms and Michael Gray Eyes.
2:14.0	Yeah, that's me in a nutshell.
2:18.0	So that's why I actually invited you on their show
2:21.0	so that when you become...
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