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Once-lost language back to life.Rutherford Falls 2021–Photo Courtesy Greg GaynePeacockNBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images“Dont judge this comedy by its Ed Helms cover — its much more than just that,” Asks Patricia Puentes writes of Rutherford Falls, Peacocks latest sitcom. Although it has the support of Michael Schur Parks and Recreation behind it, this witty series centers on Reagan Wells comedian, writer, and podcast host Jana Schmieding, a member of the Minishonka Nation.Reagans white friend, Nathan Rutherford Helms, can trace his roots back to the areas earliest colonizers, and.


After folks in the town request that a statue of Nathans ancestor is taken down, tension and LOB Directory hilarity ensues. This landmark sitcom boasts a majority Indigenous writers room and, as Jen Chaney of Vulture puts it, “skillfully braids discussions of serious sociocultural issues with character-based comedy in ways that seem neither forced nor overly didactic.”Reservation Dogs 2021–Photo Courtesy Everett CollectionThis brilliant FX series comes from the minds of Sterlin Harjo Mekko, a Seminole and Muscogee filmmaker, and Taika Waititi Jojo Rabbit, a Te Whānau-ā-Apanui writerdirector, so you know its going to be stellar.





Reservation Dogs follows four Indigenous teens living on a reservation in Oklahoma and traces their misadventures as they try to save enough money to make it to California.The humor here not only challenges the harmful, stereotypical representations of Indigenous peoples and cultures but, as Harjo puts it, “brings non-Natives into the joke and saying, Hey, this is what you think we look like, and were gonna let you laugh at it with us.” With an impressive young cast and an all-Indigenous writers room, Reservation Dogs is one of the best shows of 2021.Rumble The Indians Who Rocked the World