Naturally Native
1998, PG-13, 107 min.
Directed by Valerie Red-Horse, Jennifer Wynne Farmer, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman, Max Gail, Valerie Red-Horse, Irene Bedard, Kimberly Norris, Pato Hoffmann, Mary Kay Place.

Three Native America sisters start their own cosmetics line – Naturally native – but confront complicated issues of racism in the business world and personal identity. The film was totally financed by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation.

This article appears in November 1 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.