TELEVISION
Reservation Dogs, FX | Co-Executive Producer, Season 2 & 3 / Producer, Season 1
Accused, FOX | Writer / Director, Season 1
Rutherford Falls, Peacock | Producer, Season 2 / Story Editor, Season 1
Resident Alien, SYFY | Staff Writer, Season 1
ad campaigns
"The Original Athlete" for Nike N7 | Script Writer
"Millennia" for Byellowtail Collective | Script Writer / Poet
ARTICLES
NÜÜMÜ POYO: A STORY OF RECLAMATION ON A WELL-LOVED TRAIL | Writer
Published by REI’s Uncommon Path Magazine
NÜÜMÜ POYO: A STORY OF RECLAMATION ON A WELL-LOVED TRAIL
At the Kearsarge Pass trailhead in the high alpine outside Independence, California, we smudge ourselves with sage and prepare for our 12-mile journey. The sun is already high in the sky, and the desert air feels thin as we hoist our 40-pound packs and start walking down the dusty path.
It’s late August 2018, and I’m one of a handful of people carrying a resupply of dehydrated food, moleskin and sunscreen for a group of Indigenous women who have been trekking through the Sierra Nevada. The group is due at Bullfrog Lake in 10 hours, where, as night falls, we’ll hand off the reserves we carried and pray for the final 30-mile leg of the women’s trip before they take off for the southern terminus of the John Muir Trail (JMT). (click below to continue reading)
HOW TO HONOR NATIVE PEOPLE WHILE TRAVELING | Writer
Published by How Not to Travel Like a Basic Bitch
HOW TO HONOR NATIVE PEOPLE WHILE TRAVELING
My travels have taken me all around the world and in all of the places I have been there is one predictable thing that happens.
I am asked, “What kind of name is that?”
It seems simple enough but the question sends a sigh through my body as I begin to answer Native, Indigenous, Native American, or as a last resort Indian. I try to be tribally specific but most people go blank or think I’m talking about a country, and in someways, I am. Once I have found the term for my identity that they understand, their responses are one of the following: . . . (click below to continue reading)