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Rick Desautel, flanked by his daughter and his wife, Linda (right), celebrates his acquittal of illegal hunting charges outside the provincial courthouse in Nelson, British Columbia, in March 2017.

Canada says the Sinixt tribe is extinct. The tribe’s American descendants disagree.

Justice

What do you do when a country has officially declared your people extinct? One descendant of the Sinixt tribe went on an illegal elk hunt.

Intentional Flaws

Arts, Culture & Media

Special Guest: Sherman Alexie

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Robby Romero

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The National Museum of the American Indian

Arts, Culture & Media

Sherman Alexie

Arts, Culture & Media

Sherman Alexie stays up all night too. The author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and the new novel Flight says it all started when he was a kid when he would stay up waiting for his father to come home. Produced by Trey Kay.

In the Land of the Headhunters

Arts, Culture & Media

Edward Curtis is known for his early 20th-century photos of Native Americans, but he also made a silent movie with an all-indigenous cast, called “In the Land of the Head Hunters.” The film is being shown again now, accompanied by a live orchestra – this time, the musicians are all Native. Produced by Trent Wolbe.

Stevie Salas

Native American musicians and the ‘Rumble’ beginnings of rock

Arts

A new documentary traces the long influence of Native American artists on the American music landscape.

Spur Steak Ranches is a chain of Native American-themed restaurants popular in South Africa.

South Africa’s ‘Native American’ fetish is a very strange thing

Culture

The theme of South Africa’s most popular restaurant is an unabashedly clichéd take on “Native American.”