Julian Brave Noisecat: Surviving the Night, Becoming a Father, and Faith

❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, ⁠⁠⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠⁠⁠. 🎉 It’s Julian Brave Noisecat week on the podcast! 👉🏽 ⁠ NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. He is the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award and the first Indigenous North American author to ever write about healing from intergenerational trauma by getting stoned with his dad for The New York Times Magazine.During this conversation we talk at length about his first book, We Survived the Night, a portrait of Indigenous life beginning with the familial and expanding outwards from there through a contemporary retelling of the Coyote epic. When it released in 2025, it was an instant national bestseller in Canada and an indie bestseller in the United States. In addition to being a bestselling author, Julian's first documentary, Sugarcane, directed alongside Emily Kassie, follows an investigation into abuse and missing children at the Indian residential school NoiseCat’s family was sent to near Williams Lake, British Columbia. Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where NoiseCat and Kassie won the Directing Award in the U.S. Documentary Competition. ✅ Follow Julian on Instagram.✅ Buy a copy (or two!) of We Survived The Night.✊🏽 Join the Let’s Give A Damn community on ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠!👕 ⁠⁠⁠Buy some of our merch⁠⁠⁠!🔥 Follow Let’s Give A Damn on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠.✉️ Sign up for our weekly ⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠.📱 Reach out anytime: [email protected].​​❤️ Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y’all!