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 July 2026

Graham Greene wasn't supposed to make it. A reserve kid from Six Nations who dropped out at 14 and spent 15 years welding steel and laying carpet before he ever stepped on a stage. In 1990, Kevin Costner cast him as Kicking Bird in Dances with Wolves — a role that required him to study Lakota 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, in a language that wasn't his. That performance earned him an Oscar nomination, making him only the second indigenous actor in history nominated for Best Supporting Actor. But Hollywood didn't roll out the red carpet. Directors told him his race disqualified him from roles. Casting directors handed him scripts where he was expected to grunt and look stoic. He told one director about his four dead uncles who served on submarines in the Pacific — and never flinched.  Graham Greene went on to log over 180 film and television credits, from Thunderheart to Die Hard with a Vengeance to The Green Mile to Wind River. He won a Grammy, earned the Order of Canada, ...

TULSA, OK-   by Tim Landes August 4, 2026 Navajo author June Beck reads his story from the Indigenous anthology "From the Heart of our Nations" at 101 Archer on July 31, 2026. Next to Beck are contributing writers Raelee Fourkiller, Hannah L. Henry and A.J. LeBeau. Kashona Notah  Credit: Tim Landes / Tulsa Flyer An audience of more than 100 spent Friday evening time traveling to the year 2276 through the writings of a new generation of Indigenous authors who are featured in a new anthology “From the Heart of Our Nations.” The event, held at 101 Archer, featured a keynote conversation with award-winning author Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaan/Yuma and Laguna Pueblo), readings by anthology contributors and a book signing in partnership with Magic City Books. Catering was provided by NATV. “From the Heart of Our Nations: An Indigenous Futures Anthology of Short ...

  CBC 7/29/2026 CBC Wed, July 29, 2026 at 4:00 a.m. EDT 4 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Add Yahoo on Google Scott Olsen organized Indigenous Books for Indigenous Kids, with the hopes of getting books from Indigenous authors into the hands of Indigenous students at the high school he teaches at. (Submitted by Scott Olsen - image credit) A high school teacher in greater Edmonton is making sure Indigenous students at his school are seeing themselves reflected on the page.  Scott Olsen, a member of Saddle Lake Cree Nation who was raised in Edmonton, launched Indigenous Books for Indigenous Kids after waking up one Sunday morning with a simple thought.  "Man, I think I could do more," he said.  Olsen is a writer and teacher at Memorial Composite High School just outside of Edmonton, attended by students from nearby Paul First Nation. He started reaching out to Indigenous authors for donated books...

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  "Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, also known by her Ojibwe name Bamewawagezhikaquay, (Woman of the Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), is considered by many to be one of the first Native American literary writers. "She was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.  Her mother, Ozhaguscodaywayquay, also known as 'Susan,' was the daughter of Chief Waubojeeg.  Jane's father, John Johnston, was an Irish fur trader. "Jane Johnston married Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, a geographer, geologist, ethnologist, and Indian agent. He encouraged her to write and likely influenced those writings." Michigan Women Forward , a nonprofit organization dedicated to the economic empowerment of women and minorities, digs deeper into Schoolcraft's rich history: Schoolcraft (1800 – 1842) is considered by literary scholars and historians to be the first known Native American writer. The granddaughter of the revered Ojibwe chief Waubojeeg, she began as early as ...

LISTEN: https://redcircle.com/shows/97996083-5fe9-41d5-824e-f069a412ed76   Shane Hawk on Meet Your Maker 43m | Jul 13, 2026 Brian and Jeff welcome Shane Hawk, a Cheyenne and Arapaho horror writer and editor, creator of the Native Horror Index, and contributing editor at Counterpoint Press acquiring and editing Indigenous North American writers. Hawk explains how horror can produce joy through safe distance, catharsis, and the chance to rewrite grim histories by letting Native characters survive and resist stereotypes. He recounts early influences (Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark, a childhood Halloween scare), returning to intense reading in adulthood, and self-publishing Anoka in 2020 before COVID led him to spearhead Never Whistle at Night with co-editor Ted Van Alst, evolving from a Discord/Twitter idea to a Vintage deal and major sales. He discusses horror community support, the anthology’s themes of revenge and community, his comfort centering Native perspec...

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“Do Indians Still Exist?” On Intergenerational Trauma and Indigenous Resilience Blair Palmer Yoxall Remembers the Family History That Inspired His Debut Novel Treat Them as Buffalo fertilized when I was five, riding in the backseat of my mom’s blue minivan along Cowboy Trail in the Alberta foothills. “Do Indians still exist?” I’d seen Indians in Westerns and comics and TV. They frightened me. From the rearview mirror, my mom seemed embarrassed when she chuckled. I knew my mom and I were Indigenous because her dad was. But the Indians I’d seen in movies dressed nothing like the people in my mom’s family. The Indians in Westerns had war paint and whooped like savages. The Indians in my family were all cowboys and cowgirls. Then when I was thirteen, my maternal grandfather passed away. My mom remembers my grandpa having an uncomfortable relationship with his mother. But I was close with my mom. Why couldn’t grandpa be close with his? By that point...

Cherokee science-fiction author Daniel H. Wilson blends ancient tales about extraterrestrials with up-to-date speculation about alien visitations in a new novel called "Hole in the Sky." Hole in the Sky: A Novel Indigenous knowledge meets science fiction in this creative page-turning thriller by New York Times bestselling author Daniel H. Wilson. March 2, 2026 In May and June 2026, the Science Friday Book Club will read “ Hole in the Sky ” by Daniel H. Wilson. “First contact imminent.” Thrilling from the start, “Hole in the Sky” takes readers on a science fiction adventure set in the heart of the Cherokee Nation. It’s up to an unlikely crew–a single dad, an astrophysicist, and a threat forecaster for the military–to decode a cryptic message and prepare for an unidentified object heading directly for Earth. You can get your copy from your local bookstore or on Bookshop.org . There are so many ways to dive in and participate! You...

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