In this week’s edition of Longviews, the podcast brought to you by NAICA online, editors du jour Maria Colon & Renee Gick lament the absence of their young grasshopper, Katie Henner; extoll the virtues of congressman Rick Renzi; discuss this season’s historical bloodletting-Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee-brought to everyone’s cable induced T.V. by HBO; review the western noir film Kill Me Again by John Dahl (featuring Val Kilmer’s best wooden indian impression to date!); and discuss the National Museum of the American Indian’s premiere of Toa Frasier’s Naming Number Two.

We will return next weekend when we will feature an interview with director Bennie Klain, regale you with tales from Tribeca (and Austin), discuss censorship, iconoclasm, and Indian princesses with several surprise guests.

Katie will return with Ask an Indian and the Dallas Gick report will become the Gick Repoire.

Stay tuned!

Shenanigans abound in this our sixth installment of Longviews, brought to you by NAICA online.
Heather Locklear is not Native yet has received awards for being Native

mixed-Cherokees may no longer be included on the federally recognized roll but they can always apply to be a Cherokilmer

Cody Lightning speaks ’til dawn

Russell Means offers herbal advice for infected cooters (though Longviews and NAICA do not support the use of the suggested herb)

Nathan Arcand’s character in Black Cloud really didn’t die

Katie shows her age and her latent Viking roots

(and much, much more)

Dearest Longviews Listener,

if you’re thinking of going to see this film because you’re excited to see your favorite Native actor, or you’re simply interested in seeing how a mainstream film will depict a largly unidentified Native tribe, save your time and your money. It’s not worth it. All you need to do is listen to the following interviews with Jay Tavare and Russell Means to know that your time need not be wasted nor your eyeballs seared with too fast action, poor blocking, cloying musical orchestration, simpy dialogue, poorly lit fight scenes, and the sight of a ruddy skinned and lumbering Karl Urban. How anyone thought this guy could carry a film is beyond me. Worse still, is employing a cast of (actually) talented actors (save the Maxim chick) and not doing anything with them.

Tsk tsk. Now let this be a lesson, for no studio should give a music video director free reign over thirty million for any kind of feature length movie, especially not a music video director whose list of credits includes the name, Amy Grant. No really, I kid you not. But the film’s release did offer us the opportunity to speak with the ever gracious Jay Tavare and the original wandering bear, Russell Means.

This week on Longviews’ Easter edition:
Katie and Maria ramble even more than usual with Movies We’ve Watched Over the Weekend.
A chat with video artist Shelley Niro inspires the crew to change their incoming call tone to something less invasive.
The Dallas Gick report reveals a need for theme music and announcements inspire more emotional ramblings.
(Too much caffeine and feeling the Jesus spirit are to blame for incoherencies and missed calls.)
To find out more about Shelley’s past and present works please visit the following links:

An insightful interview with Larry Abbott: http://www.britesites.com/native_artist_interviews/sniro.htm
Screen a clip from Honey Moccasin: http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/reservation_x/eXtras/media/feverB.htm
Track the Requickening Project on their official Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/requickeningproject
Oboro Gallery, Montreal Quebec: www.oboro.net/

This week on Longviews:

-Movies We Watched Over the Weekend. NAICA’s editor has a penchant for basketball movies, documentary Chiefs by David Junge
-The Dallas Gick Report: sorta live from the AFI International Film Festival where Red States rules prohibit laughing at WTC and Osama Bin Laden candles.
-Ask An Indian: burning question goes unanswered.
-A sexy Salish Kootenai gets her degree wedged between a camel and naturo-pathic boobies.

Plus,
Val Kilmer’s reservation hug-in and,
we debut the term “Chero-kilmer” the qualifying quantum by which all Hollywood types claiming Indian blood shall forever be measured.

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I would like to say we can stick to a stringent schedule but as artists and performers sometimes we just don’t feel the inspiration, not to mention experiencing difficulty scheduling guests for segments. But never fear, if you missed our ramblings and sexy squeaky voices never fear for we will have a delciciously cheeky ‘cast for you this evening, late in the evening when, in your lonely quiet hour, you need to hear friendly squaws, I mean squawks, we will be in the ether for you.

just for you.

stay tuned!

This week on Longviews we have plenty of debuts: our new theme song, our upcoming interviews and features, goings-ons or lack thereof (even Anna Nicole left us high and dry!), The Dallas Gick Report with Renee Gick, and Ask an Indian! where co-host Katie Henner, representing mainstream America, asks the questions they all want to know.

(you can write us hate mail at info@thenaica.org)

Enjoy!

In our weekly podcasts, hosted by NAICA editor Maria Colon and pop culture scholar, Katie Henner, we will discuss the past week’s cultural events and provide updates on various about-to-be happenings/currently-goings-on as pertaining to Indigenous arts, film, and image in mainstream culture. Ahh mainstream culture. What would we have to discuss without it? These half hour offerings will air every Sunday evening ’round abouts 10pm (EST). We like to look back, sometimes in anger, but more often with a winking eye. So here is our first ever Longviews podcast. In this episode we discuss:

So, welcome to it, NAICA’s Longviews (the meaning will become apparent), where all things are not considered and a good microphone is most needed.

Enjoy.