by Jessie Atkin | Feb 12, 2024 | Press Coverage
The documentary film-maker Ben West hails from Washington DC, and thus grew up rooting for its football team. He wore the gear, watched the games, cheered on an organization named for a slur against Native Americans. Even as a kid, West, who is Cheyenne, felt the...
by Jessie Atkin | Feb 12, 2024 | Press Coverage
As hundreds of thousands of football fans descend on Las Vegas for the Super Bowl this weekend, many Native American football fans will be bracing themselves for a familiar scenario they know, well, all too well — that is, tomahawk chops, plastic feather war bonnets...
by Jessie Atkin | Feb 12, 2024 | Press Coverage
As fans cheer on the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, another group will also gather at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas to make their voices heard: Not in Our Honor, a Kansas City coalition dedicated to ending the cultural...
by Jessie Atkin | Feb 6, 2024 | Breaking News, Press Coverage
Directed by Aviva Kempner (The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg) and Cheyenne filmmaker Ben West, Imagining The Indian is a comprehensive look at the movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many Native Americans and their allies find harmful,...
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