newspaper_rock has news that the dc vertigo comic "scalped" may be headed for development as a tv series.

Rob is not overwhelmed with this:

If you don't know SCALPED, it's basically The Sopranos on the rez. That means a series drenched in murder, crime, corruption, sex, violence, gangs, drinking, and drug abuse. It's as if the GOON squads of the 1970s now ( Read more... )

Aboriginal director shoots sci-fi film in Tsilhqot'in languageLast Updated: Saturday, July 25, 2009 | 12:06 PM ET ( Read more... )

Quileute Days' 'Twilight' guest helps to set record attendance

Trimble on Saturday acknowledged that the Quileute didn't have enough input on the film adaptation of the LaPush-based tribe ( Read more... )

I don't remember seeing this here, although if I have managed to beat delux_vivens out, I am astonished.

An abbreviated transcript of an interview with Chris Eyre, Native American Director, and Ric Burns, Documentary Filmmaker, who made the film 'We Shall Remain'.

Full podcast here.

"I love the idea that Tecumseh and his pan-Indian movement came within a ( Read more... )

Sherman Alexie on Kindles.

newspaper_rock discusses a book called The Indians Won, a novel written in 1970 by Martin Cruz Smith (who was apparently part Pueblo?). The basic premise is that after Custer's defeat,

the Lakota and Cheyenne had not broken up into traditional hunting bands that winter. Financed by a group of European investors, who were resentful of rising U.S. influence, ( Read more... )

Because of Twilight fame, Quileute Tribe hires a publicist

So. I read Moon Called by Patricia Briggs. It's the first book in a series that is sort of a mix of urban fantasy and romantic paranormal adventure. The lead character, Mercy Thompson, is a shapeshifter who can turn into a coyote (the book uses the terms "skin walker" and shifter). She is also half native. Which is where things get sticky ( Read more... )

The Healthy Aboriginal Network is doing an educational comic series about First Nations children sent to residential schools in Canada called Lost Innocence; black and white sketches and the narrated story are up for preview in ( youtube vids. )

interview.

via newspaper_rock.