The life and career of Te Ata, the Native American trailblazer who celebrated her people’s culture through performance and, in doing so, helped educate the country about Native traditions, is ...
Last month, actor Adam Beach wrote an important guest column about what Native Americans have gone through in this country over the past 200 years and the historical trauma of having your culture ...
A search is underway in the Albuquerque area for Native American actors to star in a tribally-produced feature film that shares the story of a trailblazing Native American entertainer.An open casting ...
Though it often resembles an innocuous Hallmark movie, the biographical drama “Te Ata” proves an illuminating, sometimes moving intersection of history, family conflict and the sort of rising, ...
Overcoming racial prejudice to become a popular storyteller, Native American performer Te Ata Fisher — who died in 1995 at age 99 — led an inspirational life. How ironic, then, that the biopic “Te Ata ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, together with the Chickasaw Nation and Oklahoma City University, present “Te Ata,” a play based on the life of Chickasaw storyteller Mary ...
Te Ata is about the true story of Mary Thompson Fisher, a Chickasaw storyteller who was born and raised in the Chickasaw Nation. She became one of the greatest Native American performers ever. The ...
Nathan Frankowski’s film “Te Ata,” fully financed by the Chickasaw nation, follows the true story of Broadway actress-turned-storyteller Te Ata, who was born Mary Frances Thompson. In the early 20th ...
Q'orianka Kilcher of 'The New World' plays the title role in 'Te Ata,' a biopic about the famed Native-American performer. By Frank Scheck That it was produced by the Chickasaw Nation signals that the ...
Last month, actor Adam Beach wrote an important guest column about what Native Americans have gone through in this country over the past 200 years and the historical trauma of having your culture ...
The inspiring life of the iconic Native American storyteller is recounted in reverential if clumsy fashion in Nathan Frankowski’s biopic. The life and career of Te Ata, the Native American trailblazer ...