BATS! BATS! THE WRONG BATS! S4E14

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Green Feather Book Company, Words of the People, and Reel Indigenous Podcast presenting a live recording at the Native-owned bookstore in Norman, OK, featuring authors Chelsea Hicks and Joey Clift! A Calm & Normal Heart and We've Been Here The Whole Time! are available at your favorite indie book store! Support Creative Natives and buy your copy today!

Our 4th annual Halloween Episode brings the bats! But not the Lou Diamond Phillips ones, the Nick Mancuso one. Join us as we cuss and discuss the confusion and decide for yourself if this is one to add to the Halloween rotation schedule! And Happy Spooooky Halloween!

So tradish! Jason Asenap and Sunrise Tippeconnie look back at 2026 SWAIA Indian Market with its fashion and films. The Lords of the Plains discuss sling bags, riding your bike thru the Rio Grande and traveling to Tucumcari to attack tourists. Tune in for the fun!

First-time author Joey Clift shares why he wrote We've Been Here The Whole Time! and how writing a book is weird. Thanks for hanging out with us and remember to keep it Reel!

This week, playwright, actor, producer, and proud Diné Rhiana Yazzie sits down with Sunrise and Matt to talk theater, films, and being a cool person.

Zoe Leigh Hopkins joins Sunrise and Angela to talk about her career, starting with acting, then to editing and now to directing episodes of the award-winning Netflix series North of North. She talks about the importance of learning her language and all of the power that comes with it.

Back to deadCenter for the next round of interviews! We mix it up with Icon Loren Waters, Tulsa filmmaker Keith Daniels, and fashion icon Peshawn Bread, who lays down the law about AI. And remember, narrative sovereignty is the goal! #sunrisen #filmfestival #indigenous

Actor, writer, director, producer, graphic designer, but funny? Let's find out this week when Tai Leclaire visits with us. Fresh off King of the Hill, we talk Rutherford Falls (!), the Best Holiday of the Year (Halloween, duh) and his upcoming film Cheyenne!

Meegwun Fairbrother has come a long way from Butterhead to playing an Osage family man in the new Little House on the Prairie series dropping on July 9. Charles Ingalls just got a new neighbor!He joins us this week to talk about working with Sydney Freeland, learning Osage, and his upcoming projects.

It's deadCenter 2026 Part 1 - The Reckoning!First, we got Blake Pickens and Caleb Vesely, who worked with Brenda Fisher and Chief Marchand Rice to share Chief's story of his life sentence and his journey into reconnecting with his heritage in a moving documentary that won Best Indigenous Festure at dC2026.Next, we got Josiah Jones, whose documentary short Stankface Standing Soldier follows DJ and Mato Wayuhi, known for his work on Reservation Dogs. It can be seen on PBS In the Making American Masters Short Docs online.