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 ...

For filmmaker Erica Tremblay, “Fancy Dance” has already achieved the highest of honors. After screening the film for an audience of Cayuga-language speakers in Toronto this past year, one of the ...

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 ...

Join us this Friday, February 23rd, for an exclusive Live Native Bidaské episode that delves into the captivating world of film, storytelling, and Indigenous representation. In this episode, Native ...

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 ...