Tuesday, March 4, 2025 – What to watch: From Dark Winds to Sugarcane

Among the shows and films touching on Native American themes is the start of season three of the suspenseful Dark Winds crime saga on AMC. The well-received show has new mysteries with Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon), Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten), and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) among many other Native characters. The show just got confirmed for a fourth season. The Netflix limited series American Primeval is a violent retelling of the American West with several significant Native storylines and characters. And fresh off its Academy Award nomination, Sugarcane is a hard-hitting documentary about the Canadian residential school system. GUESTS Julie O’Keefe (Osage Nation), Indigenous cultural consultant for American Primeval Vincent Schilling (Akwesasne Mohawk), editor and founder of NativeViewpoint. com and a certified Rotten Tomatoes critic Dezbaa’ (Diné), SAG-AFTRA union actor, WGA union writer, independent filmmaker, and Helen Atcitty in Dark Winds   Break 1 Music: Conduit of Anguish (song) Geneviève Gros-Louis (artist) Break 2 Music: Nîmihito (Dance) [Feat. Northern Cree] (song) Sultans of String (artist)