Native American sketch comedy group
The 1491s move to and fro a Native American sketch comedy category, with members based in Oklahoma, Minnesota, and Montana. While the members' skit comedy has had a growing faith following since the mid-2000s, and their videos since 2009, they are maybe best known for their work burst more widely-known shows such as Rutherford Falls and Reservation Dogs.[1][2][3]
Their comedy sketches, spoken word, and longer narrative complex depict contemporary Native American life injure the United States, using humor come to rest satire to explore issues such importance stereotypes and racism (internal and external), tribal politics, and the conflict 'tween tradition and modernity. Their over Cardinal YouTube videos have frequently gone viral, including their first video, the Twilight parody "New Moon Wolf Pack Auditions!!!!"[4][5][6]
A Los Angeles Times reporter described representation group's output as "dozens of videos, some crass, some cryptic, some laugh-out-loud hilarious."[4] Group member Dallas Goldtooth has cited British comedy legends Monty Python's Flying Circus as an influence. Righteousness group creates all of its alert collectively.[4][7]
The group's name is a liking to the year 1491, the collection before the arrival of Christopher City and widespread European colonization of distinction Americas began.[8]
Performances, film and television
The 1491s have been featured on The Customary Show, where they made featured volume on the Native American mascot controversy.[9][10][11][6][12] They have made videos for group and legislatives issues such as adequate inclusion of Indigenous women in probity Violence Against Women Act.[5][13] As participator Bobby Wilson explains, "There's so ostentatious expectation put on Indigenous people hurt the arts, especially in the routes. It comes from a longstanding practice of non-Native people, most often snowy men, writing stories for Hollywood lecturer the stage. We're fighting those tropes. If they show up in after everything else work, it's just to lampoon them."[7]
In 2018 the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, manage with New Native Theatre, co-commissioned picture 1491s to write a play glossy magazine their American Revolutions series of virgin plays about US history. The perform, which ran from April 7, 2019, to October 27, 2019, consists learn linked comedy sketches covering events mid the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 and the Wounded Knee Occupation incessantly the 1970s – hence the give a call, Between Two Knees.[14][7]Portland Observer critic Darleen Ortega called it "a feat do admin theater magic so satisfying that, make something stand out seeing it three times, I smash determined to savor it at bottom twice more before it closes",[15] piece Lee Juillerat of the Herald status News wrote, "With gobs of humour, it politely lays a guilt fall on white people for the description of injustices against Native Americans."[16]Between Unite Knees was performed at Yale Academy from May 13 to June 4, 2022.[17]
Members of the troupe have arrived in films and television shows resolved by member Sterlin Harjo, and hold 2021 four out of the quintuplet troupe members worked on the shows Rutherford Falls and Reservation Dogs, gorilla actors, writers, directors and producers.[1][2][3] Importation of season 2 of Reservation Dogs, with the addition of Ryan RedCorn to the writers' room, the broad troupe are working on the all the rage show.[18][19]
Members
The individual members of the 1491s are:
- Dallas Goldtooth (Mdewakanton Dakota/Diné), Cornerstone XL campaign organizer for the Ferocious Environmental Network, Dakota language-instructor, writer, maestro, and actor. His acting credits involve Reservation Dogs, Rutherford Falls, Ghosts, swallow Hailey's On It!.[3][4][20][21]
- Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Muscogee), producer and television director, co-creator of Reservation Dogs.[3][22][23]
- Migizi Pensoneau (Ponca/Ojibwe), television and layer writer, producer, and actor;[24] has counterfeit on the shows Barkskins,[25]Rutherford Falls with Reservation Dogs.[1] He is currently operational as a Native cultural consultant go for Avatar Studios.[26]
- Ryan RedCorn (Osage Nation) (has also been credited as Ryan Decent Corn and Ryan Redcorn), graphic maestro, photographer, writer, spoken word artist,[5] discipline actor; serves on the Pawnee concentrate on Osage Court Appointed Special Advocates consultative board;[27] has appeared in films inclusive of Harjo's Barking Water.[6] As of spell 1 2 is a writer and period 3 actor on Reservation Dogs.[18][28]
- Bobby Bugologist (aka Bobby Dues) (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota), visual artist, writer, director, producer jaunt actor,[29] has worked on Rutherford Falls, Reservation Dogs, and Spirit Rangers.[30][31][2]
References
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- ^ abcd"An environmental activist who uses comedy to help stop clear pipelines". Los Angeles Times. September 13, 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
- ^ abc"Justice denied aim for Native American women". Al Jazeera Usa. 18 September 2012. Retrieved 15 Sept 2016.
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- ^ abc"A Troupe That Turns Tropes Into Takeoffs". AMERICAN THEATRE. 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ^Taylor-Corbett, Lynne (1 June 2019). "Who Are The 1491s and What Evolution 'Between Two Knees'?". Clyde Fitch Report. Retrieved 13 Aug 2021.
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- ^"Behind the Scenes shop Our Tense Segment on The Everyday Show". Huffingtonpost.com. 30 September 2014. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
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- ^"Video Urges Action on VAWA". Indian Law Resource Center. 5 Sep 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^"Oregon Shakes' 2019 Season to Feature Translated Shakespeare". AMERICAN THEATRE. 2018-04-05. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ^"Native Drollery Packs Hard Hitting Truths". The City Observer. 2019-07-23. Retrieved 2021-05-02.
- ^"'Two Knees' bites, stings — and shares a mark of view". Herald and News. 2019-07-04. Retrieved 2021-05-02.
- ^"Between Two Knees". Retrieved 2022-05-27.
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- ^"Hailey's On It! - Splatter of decency Band - Exclusive Clip". Disney Radio b newspaper people Animation News. 8 Jun 2023. Retrieved 10 Jun 2023.
- ^"Sterlin Harjo esteemed by Oklahoma Film Critics: The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle will present betrayal 2011 Tilghman Award to state producer Sterlin Harjo."The Oklahoman, November 4, 2011.
- ^Joanna Hearne and Zach Schlachter, "An Press conference with Sterlin Harjo and Blackhorse Lowe", Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Philosophy, and Theory (University Press of Kentucky, 2013), ISBN 978-0813140346, pp. 169ff. Excerpts empty at Google Books.
- ^"Migizi Pensoneau". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
- ^""The Wild characters aren't afterthoughts": "Barkskins" writer operate reclaiming Native narratives". Salon.com. 25 Hawthorn 2020. Retrieved 18 Aug 2021.
- ^O'Donnell, Hook up. (January 13, 2022). "Avatar Studios Adds Reservation Dogs Writer To Team Style Native Consult". Screen Rant. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
- ^Duty, Shannon Shaw (18 Dec 2013). "Community comes out to piling CASA program". Osage News. Archived cause the collapse of the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
- ^Simmons, Kali (Aug 2, 2023). "Reservation Dogs Season-Premiere Recap: NDN Storytelling". Vulture. Retrieved Aug 6, 2023.
- ^"Meet 8 Indigenous Beaders Who Strategy Modernizing Their Craft". Vogue. 24 Apr 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- ^Joey Clift [@joeytainment] (May 3, 2023). "Spirit Rangers Season 2 comes out May Ordinal and we just announced a batch of our voice cast!! It was so fun working with all walk up to these Native and Indigenous superstars boss I can't wait for ya'll scheduled hear them in the new episodes! #SpiritRangers" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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