Reservation Dogs Finale: An interview with Sterlin Harjo
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Indian country is collectively mourning after the 10th and final episode of Season Three of Reservation Dogs hit the streaming waves.
It all started a little over three years ago amid the COVID crisis when Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi created what would become a huge smash hit for HULU.
For those unfamiliar with Reservation Dogs, it is the story of Reservation life in Oklahoma. It follows the exploits of four teen Native youths by the names “Bear Smallhill,'' portrayed by D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, “Elora Danan,” portrayed by Devery Jacobs, “Willie Jack,” portrayed by Paulina Alexis; and the youngest of the group “Cheese,” portrayed by acting newcomer Lane Factor.
Many people don’t realize Sterlin Harjo, the director of numerous episodes and showrunner and executive producer, also portrayed the ominous red-eyed Bigfoot. I learned this fact several years ago with my first interview with Harjo.
In an interview with Native Viewpoint, Harjo explained his profound love for the show and characters, the community of the #RezDogCrew, which became family, and why he decided the show had to end…at least for now. 
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Now let’s have the Willie Jack spin off! Skoden!!❤
Heck yes! Thanks so much for watching... Stay tuned for more content
"Willie, Medicine Woman"
@@VinceSchilling "Willie, Medicine Woman"
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So much story in the end needed a s4
This show carried me through many hard days. As a teen from Thailand this show really made me love all the characters in the show while dealing with personal issues we all go through. It was really heartfelt, I felt like this show could have gone on for a few more seasons but ending it here on a high is probably for the best. I already see the kids in bigger things, such as seeing the Cheese actor in that Spielberg movie really made me optimistic. One of the best shows ever.
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I loved the finale. Bummed that it's over, but it's good that it stayed fresh. The scene when Elora told Bear she was leaving was so beautiful and touching. Bear's growth in the show was great to see.
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I'm from pine ridge a young 61 growing up wake and funerals were a big part of our community glad to know his portrayal of community still exist out there.
That is too true Dwight. Thanks so so much for watching my friend. Thanks for representing Pine Ridge! I'm just letting everyone in the comments section know about my latest video: #ReservationDogs: 12 Possible Spin-Off Shows! If you like, you can check it out here - ruclips.net/video/JSi1wti4_vU/видео.html
Sterlin is one of the native American officers that I read during my native American literature course back a few years ago when I was going through some continuing education. I really enjoy hearing native stories from their perspective and it's very rare to get any historical information because there was so little written down on paper. I'm really looking forward to this interview. Thank you Sterlin! And thank you to Vince Schilling as always! Peace and love!
Well I wish I could cross all that out now but I'll leave it just so you know I'm not a complete fool. It was actually joy Harjo who I was studying in native American literature.
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@@VinceSchilling Yeah I've got that one queued up just waiting for a good time to freak away from household things to get to it. I always watch your stuff! Peace!
The way I saw this, especially the Deer Lady episode, but really, the whole series, is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that Native people never got. They did this in South Africa at the end of apartheid. Victims could confront their abusers. It was a time of great healing. With 500+ years of genocide on this continent, Native people do not get a chance to confront their abusers. This series was that, for me. I am so grateful to Sterlin, to the cast, the crew, everyone involved, and everyone who viewed the episodes and who ever *will* watch the series, because the healing has started.
I'm part of the Reservation Dogs Facebook Fan Group, and you'd be pretty surprised to see how many people had never heard of the things -- like for instance boarding schools -- this series addresses.
So glad you went with just plain telling the truth, Sterlin. Thank you from the bottom of my heart -- mine, and my ancestors'.
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"We told the truth" such a powerful statement, and you can feel it right through the screen. Great interview!! The series lasted as long as it needed to, and ended in such a loveable way. So we can all love it and wonder where they are now. Such an amazing job by Sterlin and the entire cast and crew. I love this show. So glad it came to be and I got to watch this for so many weeks. Thank you.
I really loved this interview Maggie. If you are interested - I'm just letting everyone in the comments section know about my latest video: #ReservationDogs: 12 Possible Spin-Off Shows! If you like, you can check it out here - ruclips.net/video/JSi1wti4_vU/видео.html
Smoke Signals was awesome.Many other shows with Native American's seem to be saying similar things. I do agree more Native Directors and writers need to be on video or in the movies. The thing about ReZ Dogs is that not all Elders have all the best advice or teachings as the younger generation. It took the young kids to get Max out.
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Sterling, thanks for letting us be a part of a wonderful community that is so authentic…in that way❤
I miss Rez Dogs already, what a great show.
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thx Vincent Schilling ❤
i have been watching you for years now and so appreciate your reporting
She:kon! (Thanks) so much Alro. I am so honored to have your excellent support! I'm just letting everyone in the comments section know about my latest video: #ReservationDogs: 12 Possible Spin-Off Shows! If you like, you can check it out here - ruclips.net/video/JSi1wti4_vU/видео.html
Siyo i need a support group now that the shows over. Ty I'm cherokee Oklahoma born n raised. This was something we needed to happen. I didn't expect as many other ppl other than indigenous to even watch or care. But they loved it as they should ❤ my kids love it and now they can see themselves in the characters we've come to love aho wado
It may sound strange but... to put this in a personal context, coming from an ethnic minority background in Central Eastern Europe, having been formerly oppressed by a dictatorial regime, I found that the entire series manages to convey truly universal human truths *whilst* also conveying so many phenomenal details about a specific community & its history & traditions. And when it comes to history, distant or recent, a truthful and honest writing manages to create many points that connect very strongly with people scattered around the globe.
This is an absolutely astonishing achievement, because normally the specific hinders the universal messages that transcend time, geography, and cultures - or the latter universal "messages" hinder what the writer & actors try to convey about specific culture(s). Reservation Dogs, through its absolutely phenomenal writing & acting, manages to do both - and people, like myself, coming from geographically, ethnically, culturally so different backgrounds can find themselves resonating with every second of every episode at a level that they may never have expected when sat down to watch this series.
Perhaps the key secret of this is exactly what is said in this video: if you write and depict the truth, then that can seamlessly expand into something that doesn't just speak about specific cultures - because it touches on universal human truths, placed in a certain context, that everyone around the globe can connect with.
I really appreciate that Sterlin had the strength of character to stay true to his story. To begin and end the arc like he discussed is part of what makes Reservation Dogs different from other television shows which in many ways are just filling space in a TV schedule. This show had a vision for the individual shows and for the overall show.
We're all going to miss the show but that's better than someday saying, "Remember when Reservation Dogs used to be good?"
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I loved the series. I don't know that a lot of ppl understand how we use humor to process hurt. How sentimental we are as a people. How we have dealt with oppression and still triumph.
This series really was fantastic Kendra, She:kon (Thanks) - If you like, check out my newest video - #ReservationDogs: 12 Possible Spin-Off Shows! - ruclips.net/video/JSi1wti4_vU/видео.html
So sad that this show is going away. Even though I never saw full episodes because I'm in India. What little I do see from YT clips has carried me through some lonely moments in life, since I am deaf and struggle to learn Hindī and Sanskrit, which makes it hard to communicate in the language my friends in north India best speak and understand. Participating in festivals, especially at the family level, here in India makes up for some of this hardship of being a deaf person with mixed ancestry. This sense of connection is so, SO important to me. THAT is what I see in these videos from the American side.
BUT I understand why it's best to end on a high note. It's not like "That's it. It's over. That was the last Native American-based TV show of the 21st century. Whiten up, folks. Leave it." No. I look forward to whatever projects he comes up with. I'm starved for whatever NA movies and shows I can find because my Native American ancestry is bound up with Indian ancestry through the one family line I inherited these from, and that gives me a sense of some connection that I cannot ignore. There is PLENTY, I mean PLENTY of material from India, the movies, the TV shows, the serious videos about culture, geopolitics of India with the rest of the world, our internal as well as our geopolitical enemies that go way back. I just want to see more of the Native American side of the story.
I sure will get a Hulu account if I'm back in America so that I can watch this series in full (can't see it outside of the US). Looking forward to more NA videos and movies. Thank you for the interview with Sterlin Harjo so that I feel assured that there will be a continue Native presence in this light.
Wonderful show, respectful and appreciative of who our First People are today-well done!! ❤
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I loved series and am sad to see it go away. It was fun having an escape to a world that's right next door to mine but that I've never seen myself. We need to give back the land! Peace and love!
Sterlin is a wise man and i saw myself in all these characters. From growing up in a small south texas town to wanting to leave , and eventually finding out that i am happy where i am and i am needed here too. It helped me more like cornered me into having to mature and finding closure and accepting the me who i am and being happy with that . I finally accepted my own role in this world. Awesome show!
There could be a whole spin off with the Deer Lady. Uncle Brownie, Spirit Guide, Uncle Kenny, and Bucky should also live on.
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Always leave us wanting. Mvto, Uncle nephew Sterlin & co
Thank all of the people involved in making an awesome native American TV series. I think it will be a timeless classic. You've not only pulled the curtain back on yourselves but, you've made a connection with all of us nonnative Americans because we all share all the oddities in our lives even if we try and hide it.
Nia:wen so much my friend!
This may be my favorite comedy based tv series ever. Its so well done.
I was really glad that they chose my hometown to film a lot of the scenes in and around.
im bummed that we only got 3 seasons
im in love with the entire cast
Amazing show. Deserves more attention.
There are so many good fiction books written by Native people. I'd love to see a hit movie from a great book. I hope you can be front and center making more movies
Biggest fan!❤ You are glorious Sterlin!
Hulu just upped my charges when the only reason I had it was for reservation dogs. I'm so bummed but I get it. I'm grateful for the amazing seasons and the cameos.
Just watched the finale and you guys stuck the landing. Perfect ending.
Incredible show!!
TBH, I'm bummed the show is over but at the same time, I'm glad it went out with a great, finished storyline. I'd love to see a spin off, regardless which direction. Just as long as we get cameos of original cast members.
I hope that this inspires other shows staring some of the actors and actresses from Rez Dogs. They were fantastic and I really hope this show releases on a physical format as well. NDN4L!
Not native, but that ending touched me on a spiritual level. Thats gonna stay with me always.
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Natives and many whites loved this show. I do feel the story did come to it's conclusion even though I wanted more
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So many great characters and possible spin-offs! I’d love to see more of the Elders back in the ‘70s. Or Elora in college with guest appearances from her dad and Debbie!
Definitely! Thanks for watching Aman!
Just in time, it'll take me up to the next...last...episode time.
😂 MikeBone in every show! 👏 Brilliant!
loved this interview, thank you
Now we need a William Knifeman spinoff. 😆
It left me wanting more so it ended at a good time
When will the Reservation Dogs box set be available?
I love that shirt
Providence
To stay
bright as
if just
thought of
earth requires
only that
nothing stay
A.R. Ammons
I liked Barking Water also
Real Medicine , native gathering natural remedies and herbs as they do house calls on horse back .
A'ho
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I didn’t like season 3 but season 1 and 2 were great
Sterlin not everything you do will be a commercials success. You take the good with the bad.