American Folklorist

Peter Keane, Not a Singer-Songwriter

"...What the 33-year-old Cincinnati native and Austin resident is, however, by both acclamation and..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Music Feature by Brian Berger

Austin Sol Makes Its Home Debut in the American Ultimate Disc League

"...Austin Sol makes its home debut in the 26-team American Ultimate Disc League. ..."

April 8, 2016 Sports Feature by Mark Fagan

Mexican-American Talents Overlooked by Film Festival

"...group are noticeably missing. There seems to be no Mexican-American writers and producers revealing our experiences here in Texas...."

March 17, 2011 Postmarks

American Exceptionalism Is History With Blinders On

"...the curriculum. Several spoke about promoting the theory of American exceptionalism. This nationalist propaganda declares that the U.S. is..."

Jan. 26, 2010 Postmarks

Top Books of 2018 for American Road Tripping

Two novels set on the open road and two accounts of life in Trump's White House all made for journeys deep into America today

"...road novel of a totally different sort is Panhandle native Randy Kennedy's excellent debut Presidio (Touchstone), a noirish tale..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

American Independents

Shirley Clarke and Ornette Coleman's common ground

"...new arts and entertainment facility in Fort Worth, Texas. Native son Ornette Coleman, who had not been back to..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Best of the Best Two

"...track them down at the out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere home of Rhee's Native American grandmother (just how Rhee's character -- an Asian..."

March 12, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Trudell

John Trudell, the Native American rights activist and spoken-word artist and musician, is the subject of this reverential biographical portrait that feels more like a press package than a full-fledged biopic.

"...Directed by: Heather Rae. John Trudell, the Native American rights activist and spoken-word artist and musician, is..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wind River

Crime and punishment on a Wyoming reservation

"...in the snow the frozen body of a young Native American girl – barefoot, bloodied, and apparently raped. Ben..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Christmas in the Clouds

This Native American romantic comedy, which won the Audience Award at the 2001 Austin Film Festival, arrives in theatres four years late but seasonally right on time.

"...Jonathan Joss, Rita Coolidge and Lois Red Elk. This Native American romantic comedy, which won the Audience Award at..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Local Struggle

Native American veterans take on ETP in Austin

"...a national victory for anti-pipeline activists, a group of Native American veterans from Texas wasted no time celebrating, instead..."

Dec. 9, 2016 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Map of the Human Heart

"...Avik, an Eskimo and Albertine, whose father was an Native American. The film begins in 1930, when young Avik..."

May 14, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Clearcut

"...clearcutting forests, this Canadian film about the struggle of Native Americans to preserve their land and their culture warns..."

Sept. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

A Lost Silent Film Is Found

Daughter of the Dawn starred Quanah Parker's kids

"...only film of the silent era with an all Native American cast...."

Jan. 23, 2015 Screens Post by R.U. Steinberg

Smoke Signals

This voyage of discovery based on Sherman Alexie's novel tells a story about friendship and father-and-son knots among Couer d'Alene Indians, a tale that resonates on the reservation and off.

"...as the first film written, directed, and co-produced by American Indians, but hanging it on the indigenous hook does..."

July 17, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Darkness

Supernatural horror film from the Blumhouse scare factory

"...seemingly somnambulistic Mazouz) begins to commune with an unseen Native American spirit-being oddly named Jenny, staring at his bedroom..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Bone Tomahawk

Hybrid Western/horror film starring Kurt Russell is a brutal delight

"...and end up attacked by unseen – but presumably Native American – killers. That desecration leads directly to the..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Meek's Cutoff

The epic and the elementary combine in Kelly Reichardt's Western survivalist tale that stars Michelle Williams.

"...a bone-dry, vast expanse pocked with at least one Native American carefully tracking their trudge through territory uncharted by..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Remember Me

Robert Pattinson gets to sink his teeth into something more than posturing in this refreshingly rendered love story.

"...and the appealingly brusque de Ravin are working with non-native American accents (he's British; she's Australian), which lends their..."

March 12, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Female Misbehavior

"...forthright interview with Max Valerio, a heterosexual lesbian and Native American in the process of undergoing a female-to-male sex..."

April 9, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Children of the Corn Ii: The Final Sacrifice

"...for our leads and, oddly enough, a sage old Native American university professor, who seems to be the only..."

Feb. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Two Towers, Six Years, and 16 Millimeters

The remarkable journey – and uncertain toll – of Steve Bilich's 'Native New Yorker'

"...they do in Austin filmmaker Steve Bilich's 13-minute short "Native New Yorker," which took home the Best Documentary Short..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Blood Brothers

Bringing James Welch's novel of Native life, 'Winter in the Blood,' to the screen

"...and around his mother's Gros Ventre tribe. As a Native American student studying writing at the University of Montana,..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Screens Feature by Paul Stekler

Thunderheart

"...the period between 1971 and 1978 when AIM (the American Indian Movement) found itself in a war with that..."

April 10, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Day Trips: “Peace Circle,” Grapevine

Statues depict meeting between Native Americans and Sam Houston

"...Sam Houston's efforts to foster peace and friendship with Native American tribes...."

July 1, 2022 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

MACC Mommy

Managing the busy new Mexican American Cultural Center is inspiring work for Amparo Garcia-Crow

"...has been no shortage of activity at the Mexican American Cultural Center. Perched like a bright-white origami figure on..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

Another distorted salvo from Dinesh D’Souza

"...World Without Her, he denied that there was a Native American genocide, here he allows for it, but only..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Louis Black

Flags of Our Fathers

The first half of the film continues Clint Eastwood's ongoing deconstruction of America's hero myths but then detours into some uncharacteristically sentimental mulch.

"...hero myth into a repetitive road tour of the American home front that merely marches in place while adding..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Work

Doc on a powerful Folsom Prison therapy group

"...is the hulking Dark Cloud, a member of the Native American Brotherhood who’s serving decades for almost chopping a..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wonder Woman

The origin story of Diana, princess of the Amazons

"...one says it aloud), the bullet-deflecting, Lasso of Truth-whipping, not-entirely-American – yet utterly feminist – heroine created by writer..."

June 2, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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