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Bear Grease

Ep. 247: Sterlin Harjo - Seminole Filmmaker

Bear Grease

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.87.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Bear Grease podcast, Clay Newcomb invites you to meet Sterlin Harjo, a Muscogee Creek and Seminole Filmmaker who co-created the award-winning show "Reservations Dogs." His ability to convey the cultural nuance of what it means to be native to a wider audience is what has made him successful. Listen along as Sterlin tells the story of his life: growing up, hunting, and filmmaking, all with the unique perspective, challenges, and benefits of being an Oklahoma-born Native American.

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0:00.0

Are you looking for some great listening material for car rides this summer?

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0:10.1

discoveries, revelations, and near misses.

0:13.2

There are stories here about gunshot wounds, wild archaeological discoveries,

0:18.1

getting lost for days hunting turkeys in a tornado,

0:21.1

and getting an accurate premonition about a 24 point buck in a dream.

0:26.0

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0:30.0

And as always you can write into campfire stories at the meat eater.com

0:36.7

if you'd like to share one of your own.

0:38.9

It's meat eater's campfire stories,

0:41.6

discoveries, revelations, and near misses narrated by me, Stephen Ronella.

0:47.0

I didn't know we were sneaking. I just thought we're hanging and so we would go over there and we would hunt. I didn't know right at first but at some point I realized it wasn't our land.

1:01.0

I was like, who's laying is he? My dad's like some Texas

1:04.4

ranchers but they're never here. We're gonna hunt it you know so we would go

1:07.4

over there and we'd hunt it. On this episode we're traveling to the big city of Tulsa, Oklahoma to meet its most famous

1:15.2

filmmaker, a member of the Muskogee Creek and Seminole Nation, Sterling Harjo.

1:21.6

He's 44 years old, a lifelong resident of Oklahoma, and has risen to the top tier of his

1:27.5

craft taking an unconventional path. After taking a big swing at the Hollywood filmmaking scene, he ditched it and went home to

1:36.2

Oklahoma to make honest movies about his people, and it ended up being the best thing he could

1:41.5

have ever done. His work has recently risen to

1:44.5

national prominence receiving multiple awards, even nominated for an Emmy, and

1:49.4

it seems there's only more to come. I'd say he's a unique guest for Bear Grease and say you might,

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