This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross.

Today we continue our series featuring some of our favorite interviews of the year

with Sterling Harjo, the co-creator of the FX series Reservation Dogs,

season one and two are streaming on Hulu.

Here's the interview we recorded in September.

If you haven't seen the hit TV series Reservation Dogs,

the title should give you a sense of it.

Set on an Indian reservation in Oklahoma,

it's about a group of teenagers and the people surrounding them.

The quirky way some of the characters constantly quote pop culture

and use it as reference points seems to owe a debt to Quentin Tarantino films.

The series is part comedy and part drama,

about teenagers wanting to break away from the reservation

and all the seeming dead ends it represents,

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,

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 cliches.

My guest Sterling Harjo is the showrunner and a writer and director on the series,

which he co-created with Taiko YTT.

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