‘American Primeval’ Team on Portraying the Brutal History of America’s Westward Expansion: “The Truth of This World Is Violent”
Director Peter Berg, executive producer Eric Newman, Indigenous Consultant Julia O’Keefe, stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, ...
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Author finds deep and disturbing history of violence against Native American women in ‘Searching for Savanna’
who wrote a book about this (Deer is a Native American lawyer, professor, and author of “The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America”). I did try to educate ...
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The Violence Against Women Act
Despite the history of respecting women within Native American culture, today many Native American women face the harsh reality of domestic violence and abuse. Native American elders claim that this ...
American Primeval and the bloody truth about the Mormon massacre of 1857
It’s one of the most harrowing scenes in Netflix’s grim Western. But is its depiction of the Mountain Meadows atrocities ...
What the tired tropes of ‘American Primeval’ get wrong about Brigham Young, early Latter-day Saints
The Netflix miniseries is a false depiction that draws on negative stereotypes, writes Matt Grow, managing director of Church ...