Trish Cook is an Anishinaabe comedian. She is premiering her sold out show "Death, Grief and Dying: Indigenous Humor While Crying" at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. EMILY BRIGHT: Well, maybe you ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. -- Comedians Rob Fairbanks, aka the Rez Reporter, and Jon "Jonny R" Roberts decided one day in May they were going to be famous. Fairbanks and Roberts have since collaborated with ...

Humor in Native North American literature and culture: survey -- Reimagining nativeness through humor: concepts and terms -- Expressing humor in contemporary native writing: forms -- Humor at work in ...

Pawnee and Choctaw rappers Lil Mike and Funny Bone — known together as Mike Bone — rap their song “Rain Dance” at NSO Entertainment’s third sold-out Native Comedy Jam Saturday, Feb. 5, at the ...

Actress Sarah Podemski sees much kinship between indigenous communities and the Jewish people, particularly when it comes to humor. She would know, after all: she was born in Canada to an Anishinaabe ...

THE shaggy background of our country is gradually edging into the foreground. Writers and anthologists —all very busy, ingenious, and inspired have put the neon to the homespun, and we are asked to ...

Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi — the co-creators of “Reservation Dogs” — met in the mid-aughts, and though Harjo is from Oklahoma and Waititi grew up in New Zealand, they immediately bonded over ...

“Native humor can be dark and raunchy — and it’s weird,” says Tazbah Chavez, a writer, producer and director on “Reservation Dogs,” the off-kilter show that follows Native teenagers navigating their ...

Whether in a somber National Portrait Gallery performance or in her wry takes on Native humor, Anna Tsouhlarakis follows her heart Anna Tsouhlarakis was a self-described “math and science nerd” in ...