The Pow Wow Princess legacy lives on in the Peters (Costa) family lead by brothers Jermaine (AKA “Quahog”)( & Christine) and Randy III. Jermaine’s beautiful Dasia gave up the crown to her cousin Amiyah (2022-2023) the daughter of Randy, whose sisters Chenoa and Ketura wore the crown previously. Amiya performed a lovely traditional blanket dance for her exhibition.
The ladies maternal great-grandmother Natalie Costa is a much loved Elder of one of the Mashpee Wampanoag’s oldest families, the Cowets. They are smart, talented and beautiful representatives of our people. Good luck Amiyah!
SHOWS ABOUT NDN’S YOU GOTTA WATCH
People are fascinated with Native Americans and for the first time in decades a slew of TV series and movies produced with Native actors by Natives and are digging into what that Native Life is for real.
Dark Winds—Is an excellent mystery suspense with an all-Native cast on a Navajo
reservation centered around a small tribal police force trying to resolve murder robbery that heaps tribal revenge on the “colonizing demons,” spells, the FBI and all the social problems Native people experience in the workplace and at home.
AMC Sunday 9pm
Reservation Dogs- Oklahoma reservation this comedy is full of characters found in every tribe. It centers on a crew of diverse hustling young Natives with big dreams that are hard to fulfill. Watch for the ghost …the funniest guy in the show. Catch up on Season 1 on Hulu or FX.
HULU Season 2 — August 3
RUTHERFORD FALLS--A comedy that closely resembles us in that the tribe is in northern New York,
still lives on their land surrounded by Whites. Their reservation and government are functioning ” the Indian way.” Unlike us they have a casino and they’re branching out with a marijuana business, lots of land to give away and a cultural center etc. It also has a transgender Native character. Maybe we can learn something. It is funny. Got a new word for those nuts we run into all the time...”PRETENDYINS”
Catch up on the 2 seasons on Peacock
We could make millions on a Mashpee show. We wouldn’t have to make anything up.