Even as “Reservation Dogs” and “Dark Winds” have brought Native American stories to television, Indigenous films have remained scarce. But Erica Tremblay, who is a member of the Seneca Cayuga Nation, ...

Making inroads. Fostering change. Authenticity in storytelling. These are the words that come to mind after viewing Fancy Dance, a film focused on Native Americans, a community sorely underserved and ...

5:38 p.m. June 24, 2024: An earlier version of this article stated that “Fancy Dance” premiered at the 2021 Sundance festival. It premiered there in 2023. For filmmaker Erica Tremblay, “Fancy Dance” ...

In the AppleTV+ family drama “Fancy Dance,” 13-year-old Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) asks her aunt Jax (Lily Gladstone) what the Cayuga language word for “aunt” is. It’s a variation on the word for ...

Fancy Dance puts us in the middle of the action right from the get-go; after her sister’s disappearance, Jax (Gladstone) takes care of her niece Roki (Isabel DeRoy-Olson) on the Seneca–Cayuga Nation ...