Native American COMEDY, indigenous comics

Xochitl, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; FNX.org/comedy; NPR; Indigenouscomiccon.com

FNX presents: Custer's Last Standup

Why nobody-can-depict-me rules?

FNX will be filming a new television series featuring Native American and World Indigenous comedians as well as some of the biggest names in stand-up comedy. The community is invited because what's a comedy show without an audience? See you there! More + VIDEO

• Custer's Last Standup (Dec. 17th, Jan. 14th, 21st)
• San Bernardino Valley College (SBVC) Auditorium 
• 701 South Mt.Vernon Ave., San Bernardino, CA 92410

Easy to get to from Los Angeles and Orange County by going east on the I-10 Freeway.

How we gonna keep them upstart Injuns in their place at work? More jobs.

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"Indigenous COMIC CON," New Mexico

Native Americans tell their own SUPERHERO stories at Indigenous Comic Con

(Nov. 26, 2017) • The second annual Indigenous Comic Con was held in Albuquerque, N.M., in November. It brought together indigenous comic book creators, game designers, actors; and even an astronaut.

• COMEDY: indigenous comic con . com

An American Secret: The Untold Story of Native American Enslavement

Rhaina Cohen, Maggie Penman, Tara Boyle, and Shankar Vedantam (Nov. 20, 2017) • From the time of Columbus until the 1900s, as many as five million Native Americans were enslaved. This week, we explore that history, and the psychological reasons it stayed hidden in plain sight.

Native Americans react to cuts to Bears Ears National Monument

(Dec. 4, 2017) • The Trump administration has decided to shrink the Bears Ears National Monument. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Shaun Chapoose, one of the Native American tribal leaders who fought for the monument's protections in the first place.

National Congress of American Indians reacts to Trump's "Pocahontas" comment

(Nov. 28, 2017) • At an event on Monday honoring Native American veterans, President Trump mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren, saying "They call her Pocahontas." NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Jacqueline Pata of the National Congress of American Indians about the reaction in the room.

 

Native Americans feel invisible in U.S. health care system

Eric Whitney (Dec. 12, 2017) • About a quarter of Native Americans report experiencing discrimination in health care, according to a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
 

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Forum: Examining discrimination against Native Americans

Joe Neel (Dec. 12, 2017) • How do Native Americans experience discrimination in daily life? Experts in Native American issues discuss the results of an NPR poll showing widespread discrimination across the nation.
 

Top Stories: Alabama Senate election; Native Americans' views on health care

Korva Coleman (Dec. 12, 2017) • Also: The latest on southern California wildfires; France hosts a world climate summit and President Trump isn't invited; and "The Endless Summer" surf film Director Bruce Brown dies at 80.

 

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For many Native Americans, fall is least wonderful time of year 

Savannah Maher (Nov. 23, 2017) • "Fall is the annual middle finger this country gives Native Americans," says one member of the Oglala Lakota Nation.

 

Job corps Public Law 477 (Dylan Johnson/NPR)

You, Me, and Them: Experiencing discrimination in America

As Native Americans face job discrimination, a tribe works to employ its own

Graham Lee Brewer (Nov. 18, 2017) • About a third of Native Americans say they have experienced discrimination in the workplace when seeking jobs, or when getting promotions or earning equal pay, according to a new poll by NPR.

 

Welcome! Blue Gap/Tachee Chapter (Laurel Morales/KJZZ)

For some Native Americans, uranium contamination feels like discrimination

Laurel Morales (Nov. 14, 2017) • KJZZ-FMIn the Navajo Nation, waste from old uranium mines has proved to be an insidious health hazard. Even spring water has become radioactive. More from NPR