This is Fresh Air, I'm Tanya Mosley.

Reservation Dogs, the critically acclaimed hit TV series set on an Indian reservation in Oklahoma,

has returned for a third season.

We're going to listen to an interview Terry recorded last year

before the writers and actor strike with Sterling Harjo,

the co-creator and writer and director on the series.

He co-created the show with New Zealand filmmaker Tyka YTT.

The series is part comedy and part drama

about teenagers wanting to break away from the reservation,

while also finding reasons to stay.

The characters face generational differences on the reservation,

and the confusion of growing up caught between traditional culture and pop culture,

as well as the spirit world and rap music.

The series shows the importance of native traditions,

while also mocking how tradition can be turned into sanctimonious pop culture clichés.

Harjo is Native American,

and has made independent films and documentaries about Native Americans in Oklahoma,

where he grew up and continues to live.

Reservation Dogs is the first and only TV series

where every writer, director and series regular is indigenous.

Season three of the effect show is now streaming on Hulu.

When Terry spoke with Harjo last year,

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