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The inspirational story relates how Te Ata took her people’s stories from her small community in Indian Territory all the way to Franklin Roosevelt’s White House. The Chickasaw Nation, which produced this biopic, tapped indigenous actress Q’orianka Kilcher (Quechua–Huachipaeri of Peru), known for her roles in 'The New World,' 'Yellowstone' and 'The Alienist,' to portray its trailblazing storyteller. Tulsa filmmaker Kyle Bell (Creek-Thlopthlocco Tribal Town), who has been mentored by none other Academy Award winner Spike Lee, delivers an up-close and personal short doc of Judd as a dynamic 21st-century renaissance man. Honorary Oscar-winning Cherokee actor Wes Studi ('The Last of the Mohicans'), who hails from Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, stars as a tough guy with a mean hangover who ends up babysitting his neighbor's two children in this short from Norman filmmaker and artist Steven Paul Judd, who is Kiowa and Choctaw. A Sundance Film Festival selection, it was named Best Oklahoma Feature at Oklahoma City's 2019 deadCenter Film Festival. Scott Momaday, whose 1969 Pulitzer Prize win for his novel 'House Made of Dawn' marked a breakthrough for Native American literature. Jeffrey Palmer directed this biography of fellow Oklahoma native and Kiowa tribal member N.

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