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@Jade Bahr I have never seen Yellowstone or Twilight, so I cannot comment on their indigenous portrayal. Your questions are complicated ones just due to the sheer vastness of the North American continent and how many separate indigenous people live in North America (US, Canada, Mexico). In the US alone there are 574 federally recognized tribes and hundreds more that are not federally recognized. I live in the state of Oklahoma which has 67 tribes, 39 of those are federally recognized. You cannot compare tribes to each other. They have different language, culture, histories, and colonization traumas. I myself have the same questions as you do. I have never seen or experienced the “reservations” they talk about in the movies. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist somewhere. The may exist in North Dakota or Arizona or Montana, but those states are thousands of miles from where I live and I have never visited them. The “reservations” portrayed in movies do not exist and have never existed in Oklahoma. In Oklahoma, the word reservation is just another word for territory, boundary, or jurisdiction. A person traveling around Oklahoma would have no idea which tribe’s boundary they were in unless you have a map that gives you that specific information. The entire state of Oklahoma is Indian Territory, so if you are in the state of Oklahoma, you are in some tribe’s boundary/reservation. For example, Pawhuska and Fairfax are in Osage territory/reservation. Part of Tulsa is in Cherokee territory and the rest of Tulsa is in Creek territory and at the same time Pawhuska, Fairfax, and Tulsa are in Oklahoma State territory. The boundaries are used in the same way county or town boundaries are used. Any Native person can live wherever in the world they want to. We are not different than any other human being. I understand your question though, and no there is no law dictating where or how we live. We attend all the same schools, universities, hospitals, eat at all the same restaurants, go to all the same movie theatres, sporting events. Just like in KOTFM, the white people and the native people lived in the same neighborhoods, went to the same bars, played in the same pool halls, shopped in the same stores, walked up and down the same streets, participated in the same parades, rode the same trains. I live within the boundaries of Cherokee Nation. In fact, I live in Tahlequah which is the capitol of Cherokee Nation. On the street where I live, there are White, Black, Asian, Puerto Rican, Cherokee, Creek, Osage, and Ponca people living in the houses, just like anywhere else in the US. Below are a couple of maps of the tribal boundaries in Oklahoma. The first one hangs in my house. I included the second one just because it is easier to read. I live in Cherokee Nation which covers 14 counties in northeastern Oklahoma, which is the size of the state of Vermont.

The Pawhuska Library is closed on weekends, and the Osage Museum didn’t have it and if even they did, you can’t take photos or video inside the museum. However, we went to a shop in Fairfax and I bought a few items including a signed copy of KOTFM book and I took the below pictures. I will go back to Pawhuska on a day the library is open and try again for pictures of the Behind the Scenes book. .

I will be in Pawhuska/Fairfax this weekend and was going to try and see if I could get some pix of the KOTFM behind the scenes book. However, it appears the two places that have it may be closed this weekend. I’ll still give it a try.

I’m so excited for this. Not many people get to experience this live and in person.

I grabbed a still shot where you can see the camera crew in the back.

The “Why We Wear Red” movement is used to bring awareness to the lack of Native women in film and media and is also linked to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

Videos of Leo filming in Sacramento. RPReplay_Final1708834032.mov RPReplay_Final1708834032.mov

Leo at the Superbowl. Tobey is there too. RPReplay_Final1707707610.mov

Extensions? lol

They really need to stop trying to make Austin happen. It’s not going to.

😅 I meant his prominent widow’s peak, but yeah that too. 😂

It’s a wig. We all know that’s not what his hairline looks like. And this is the length of his hair now.

I thought they were in their 20’s??? If they were supposed to be teenagers, they needed to hire different actors, younger actors 😬

Couple of videos from the set. RPReplay_Final1706835062.mov RPReplay_Final1706835023.mov

I love when we get a sighting of his reading glasses. 🤓

Thanks Lucky Girl for the new pics and video. He has a child’s sparkly pink backpack. Another clue as to which role he is playing.

Isn’t Eureka, CA featured in the book Vineland?

Yes. That’s the one. https://tulsaworld.com/life-entertainment/local/music/killers-of-the-flower-moon-song-created-by-oklahomans-makes-oscar-shortlist/article_873c8760-b572-11ee-bda4-a78e9259fc89.html

They both absolutely deserved it! I wish it was based on the performance and not on how much promotion you do. Also, this is pretty cool as well! However, I do not believe the Academy will allow any Native American to actually win in this category or in Best Actress, but one can hope.

This award season has made me admire Leo even more. He knows him being nominated and winning awards is inconsequential for his career. He will get whatever roles he wants with or without them. The fact that he recognized that the white man needed to step aside when the movie/story wasn’t about him is admirable. 🥰

When I’m in Pawhuska again, I’ll take pics of it if they allow it.

Yay!!!

I couldn’t remember the name when I originally posted, but they just emailed another casting call. It’s called Keep Quiet

They are currently casting a lot of indigenous people here in Oklahoma for something that involves Lou Diamond Phillips.

This was very interesting. Thanks for sharing.