![]() ![]() The same month, the Academy Awards formally apologized to Sacheen Littlefeather, a White Mountain Apache and Yaqui model, actor and activist, for abuse she received when refusing Marlon Brando’s 1973 Oscar to protest the treatment of Native Americans in film and TV. It’s also the first movie to offer a complete dub in Comanche. It’s the first-ever franchise movie with a majority Indigenous cast, led by a star-making performance from Midthunder, backed by a largely Indigenous production team, including producer Jhane Myers, of Comanche and Blackfoot heritage. ![]() In August, Prey, a prequel to the Predator franchise, became the highest-rated premiere to date of all film and TV on Disney’s Hulu. The same month, AMC premiered Dark Winds, an ambitious crime drama that endured a winding 30-year journey to screen, starring veteran Lakota actor Zahn McClarnon and shot at the first Indigenous-owned film studio in New Mexico.ĭ’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Devery Jacobs and Paulina Alexis in Reservation Dogs Photograph: Shane Brown/FX Sierra Teller Ornelas became the first Indigenous showrunner with the 2021 premiere of Rutherford Falls, which dropped its second season in June the Peacock sitcom, co-created with Mike Schur (The Good Place, Parks and Recreation) and actor Ed Helms, depicts the fraught relationship between an upstate New York town and a neighboring reservation. There’s Reservation Dogs, FX’s ingenious black comedy co-created by Muscogee and Seminole filmmaker Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, the first mainstream TV show with an all-Indigenous writer’s room, now in its critically acclaimed second season. The past two years have seen a parade of overdue firsts. “This is just shattering so many excuses for so long that have erased Native people,” said Crystal Echo Hawk, a member of the Pawnee Nation and the president and CEO of IllumiNative, an Indigenous women-led research and advocacy organization. Taken together, the summer of 2022 has marked a watershed moment for Indigenous representation in US pop culture, which for decades has slighted or misrepresented Indigenous people, if it acknowledged their existence at all. Bob Raida, president of the roller hockey league, could not be reached for comment Friday.Any one of these options alone would be remarkable, given that as recently as two years ago, there was not a single Indigenous lead character on US television, let alone three series and a hit film predominantly starring Indigenous people. The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Roller Hockey League had used the rink for some of its games. Murrysville SportZone had been managing the property, but that relationship ended earlier this year.ĭavis said he would have liked to have the facility kept as a sports arena, but that was not possible, given the challenges in managing such a facility. The arena has been closed since at least July. ![]() The rinks “will be taken down in the near future” because of “different plans with the building it is in,” according to a Facebook posting that Lewandowski created Wednesday. Lewandowski recalled playing hockey at the arena when he was younger. He is selling them at $25,000 apiece and acknowledged there will be a considerable amount of work in disassembling the rinks and moving them out of the building. He said there has been some interest from people who want to acquire the rinks. With a sales agreement in place and expected to be complete in the next few weeks, Lewandowski is selling the furnishings, including the two rinks, which are 180 feet by 80 feet in size. More people drive that stretch of Route 119 compared to his site off Route 819, and that could result in more business, Lewandowski said. “It’s a great location,” Lewandowski said of the site off the northbound lanes of Route 119. The new location will have about 50,000 square feet under roof, Lewandowski said Friday. Ryan Lewandowski, owner of R&L Supply LLC of Cedar Drive, East Huntingdon, is buying the site, which he said will give him room to expand the business that sells new and used equipment. Pleasant SportZone on Bessemer Drive - also recently known as HotShots - is in the process of being sold, said Tim Davis, who is a partner with Mike Gerger in Davis Gerger Enterprises of Hempfield, which owns the 6.2-acre parcel. Snowplows, salt spreaders and tree cutter supplies will soon fill the building. An East Huntingdon indoor sports arena and entertainment center that had multiple names through almost 20 years and drew hundreds of boys, girls and their families for weekend inline hockey and other tournaments will have an entirely new purpose. ![]()
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