Indigenous Stories with Joe Yates of Molly of Denali

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

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5 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this episode, we're joined by writer & producer Joe Yates, who is part of the Yawk'laanaas tribe. We discuss the PBS award-winning show 'Molly of Denali', the importance of TV that reflects very complicated realities around representation and finding common threads across audiences. If you're not familiar with the show 'Molly of Denali', it is an animated children's show created by Dorothea Gillim and Kathy Waugh. The series is the first American nationally distributed children's show to feature an Alaska Native as the lead character. You can learn more about Joe's work at alaskanfilms.com Support this podcast by becoming a Patron at: https://www.patreon.com/PoorProlesAlmanac

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0:00.0	Hey, folks, welcome back. This is Andy with the Port Pearls Almanac.
0:19.1	Today we have a special guest, Joe Yates. If you have kids,
0:22.5	you're probably familiar with the show Molly of Denali, which runs on PBS. A story of an
0:28.1	indigenous child in Alaska focused on highlighting the importance of carrying on tradition
0:33.0	and the role of tradition in the modern world. Well, Joe's a writer for that show,
0:38.3	as well as a producer for a number of other projects.
0:41.3	Take a listen and let us know what you think.
0:47.3	Joe, thank you so much for coming on to talk about some of your work.
0:49.3	First, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
0:51.3	Yeah, I'm a question,
0:53.3	so you're going to go to Aung.
0:55.6	Watestiyya, Henedi Kiyang, Joe Yates,
0:57.5	I just want to say it's an honor to be here.
1:01.7	Thank you.
1:02.9	My name is Watis Deyei.
1:04.4	My English name is Joe Yates.
1:05.7	I'm from Southeast Alaska, residing in Anchorage, Alaska right now.
1:09.9	I am a writer from Molly Denali, also a
1:13.1	producer and editor for Life Below Zero for Stalaskans.
1:16.8	Awesome. It was super cool when I came across Molly of Denali the first time. Being an outdoors
1:22.2	person, like there's not a whole lot of stuff for kids that's like really accessible.
1:26.0	There's like a nature cat and
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