Good morning 🐣

No real newsletter today, but if you have a little free time this holiday week, I want to point you towards the National Museum of the American Indian’s “Native Cinema Showcase.” It’s an annual celebration of Native film that “provides a unique forum for engagement with Native filmmakers from Indigenous communities throughout the Western Hemisphere and Arctic.”

It’s free, online, and on demand now through Friday, November 25, with six feature films and 30 shorts “representing 30 Native nations in eight different countries: the US, Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, and Sweden. There are 10 Indigenous languages spoken in the films.”

A sampling of some of the films available to stream:

• “Bootlegger” — Two radically opposed women divide their community into two sides over the free sale of alcohol, confronting each other to determine the best path to independence. It stars Devery Jacobs from the excellent TV show “Reservation Dogs.”

• “Daughter of a Lost Bird” — An adult Native adoptee reconnects with her birth family, discovers her Lummi heritage, and confronts issues of her own identity.

• “Portraits from a Fire” — A coming-of-age tale about inherited trauma, family, acceptance, and defiance.

• “Warrior Spirit” — A shocking exposé on the extreme weight-cutting measures motivated by the UFC.

Check it out and let me know if you watch anything!

Hope y’all have a great Thanksgiving with the ones you love.

Until next time! 👋