Long Con: Live at SITE SANTA FE with Sterlin Harjo & Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ep 10 - October 2025

Long Con is a series of conversations between Director Sterlin Harjo and Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger about life, art, film, history and everything in between - informally shared from the lens of two contemporary Native American artists and friends actively participating in the record of the 21st century.SITE SANTA FE celebrated the book launch of SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by hosting a special conversation between the author Cannupa Hanska Luger and filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, moderated by curator Brandee Caoba. They delve into the themes explored in the book and expand into broader reflections on 21st-century Indigeneity. Sterlin Harjo is an award winning Seminole/Muscogee Creek filmmaker who has directed three feature films and a feature documentary all of which address the contemporary Native American lived experience. Harjo is a founding member of the five-member Native American comedy group, The 1491s. Sterlin’s latest project Reservation Dogs, is a television show created in collaboration with Taika Waititi, now available to watch on FX. Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multidisciplinary artist who creates monumental and situational installations and durational performance and often initiates community participation and social collaboration. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota descent.