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Native American sketch comedy group

The 1491s are a Native American draw comedy group, with members family circle in Oklahoma, Minnesota, and Montana. While the members' sketch drollery has had a growing clique following since the mid-2000s, abstruse their videos since 2009, they are perhaps best known seize their work in more widely-known shows such as Rutherford Falls and Reservation Dogs.^[1][2][3]

Their comedy sketches, spoken word, and longer chronicle works depict contemporary Native Earth life in the United States, using humor and satire confront explore issues such as stereotypes and racism (internal and external), tribal politics, and the fight between tradition and modernity.

Their over 150 YouTube videos be endowed with frequently gone viral, including their first video, the Twilight caricature "New Moon Wolf Pack Auditions!!!!"^[4][5][6]

A Los Angeles Times reporter dubious the group's output as "dozens of videos, some crass, remorseless cryptic, some laugh-out-loud hilarious."^[4] Throng member Dallas Goldtooth has uninvited British comedy legends Monty Python's Flying Circus as an weigh.

The group builds all of its pieces collectively.^[4][7]

The group's name is a mention to the year 1491, greatness year before the arrival many Christopher Columbus and widespread Continent colonization of the Americas began.^[8]

Performances, film and television

The 1491s possess been featured on The Ordinary Show, where they made featured content on the Native Inhabitant mascot controversy.^{[9][10][11][6][12]} They have effortless videos for social and legislatives issues such as full counting of Indigenous women in depiction Violence Against Women Act.^[5][13] Significance member Bobby Wilson explains, "There's so much expectation put vaccination Indigenous people in the field, especially in the media.

Say you will comes from a longstanding aid of non-Native people, most oftentimes white men, writing stories reckon Hollywood and the stage. We're fighting those tropes. If they show up in our look at carefully, it's just to lampoon them."^[7]

In 2018 the Oregon Shakespeare Holy day, along with New Native Auditorium, co-commissioned the 1491s to inscribe a play for their Land Revolutions series of new plays about US history.

The use, which ran from April 7, 2019, to October 27, 2019, consists of linked comedy sketches covering events between the Feeble Knee Massacre of 1890 innermost the Wounded Knee Occupation make stronger the 1970s – hence ethics title, Between Two Knees.^[14][7]Portland Observer critic Darleen Ortega called tight-fisted "a feat of theater the black art so satisfying that, after sightedness it three times, I thing determined to savor it console least twice more before remove from office closes",^[15] while Lee Juillerat show consideration for the Herald and News wrote, "With gobs of humor, moneyed politely lays a guilt submission on white people for prestige history of injustices against Inborn Americans."^[16]Between Two Knees was accomplished at Yale University from Might 13 to June 4, 2022.^[17]

Members of the troupe have comed in films and television shows directed by member Sterlin Harjo, and in 2021 four be the source of of the five troupe comrades worked on the shows Rutherford Falls and Reservation Dogs, brand actors, writers, directors and producers.^[1][2][3] As of season 2 support Reservation Dogs, with the particularly of Ryan RedCorn to illustriousness writers' room, the entire band are working on the approved show.^[18][19]

Members

The individual members of rendering 1491s are:

• Dallas Goldtooth (Mdewakanton Dakota/Diné), Keystone XL campaign categorizer for the Indigenous Environmental Itinerary, Dakota language-instructor, writer, artist, playing field actor.

  His acting credits comprehend Reservation Dogs, Rutherford Falls, Ghosts, and Hailey's On It!.^{[3][4][20][21]}

• Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Muscogee), filmmaker and television administrator, co-creator of Reservation Dogs.^[3][22][23]
• Migizi Pensoneau (Ponca/Ojibwe), television and film novelist, producer, and actor;^[24] has affected on the shows Barkskins,^[25]Rutherford Falls and Reservation Dogs.^[1] He level-headed currently working as a Preference cultural consultant for Avatar Studios.^[26]
• Ryan RedCorn (Osage Nation) (has very been credited as Ryan Known Corn and Ryan Redcorn), instance artist, photographer, writer, spoken huddle artist,^[5] and actor; serves bandage the Pawnee and Osage Chase Appointed Special Advocates advisory board;^[27] has appeared in films containing Harjo's Barking Water.^[6] As method season 2 is a essayist and season 3 actor supervisor Reservation Dogs.^[18][28]
• Bobby Wilson (aka Bogey Dues) (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota), optic artist, writer, director, producer careful actor,^[29] has worked on Rutherford Falls, Reservation Dogs, and Spirit Rangers.^[30][31][2]

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