The 1491s is a sketch comedy group, based in the wooded ghettos of Minnesota and buffalo grass of Oklahoma. They are a gaggle of Indians chock full of cynicism and splashed with a good dose of ...

UNC Asheville’s Native American Student Association hosts guest speakers and performances as part of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Series, including a visit by sketch comedy group The ...

For better or worse, Native Americans have become part of Thanksgiving lore. Nov. 21, 2012 — -- This week, little boys and little girls around the country will don stereotypical pilgrim and ...

The 1491s sketch comedy group describes themselves as a “gaggle of Indians chock full of cynicism and splashed with a good dose of indigenous satire.” Their name obviously refers to the year prior to ...

Comedian Charlie Hill was the first Native comedian to appear on late night television. The picture is a still shot from his first appearance on "The Richard Pryor Show" in 1977. The book by Kliph ...

SEATTLE — Opening night for Between Two Knees is set for March 8 at Seattle Rep. It's the first play by the intertribal sketch comedy troupe, The 1491s. The group may be best known for the hit ...

It’s 10 in the morning, and eight high school students won't speak. Dallas Goldtooth threatens them: “Someone start talking or I'm going to start calling on you.” A boy fidgets. Two girls giggle and ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The first play by acclaimed intertribal sketch comedy troupe The 1491s-best ...

“Between Two Knees,” coming May 12 through June 4 to the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, isn’t just a fresh, irreverent take on underappreciated (or deliberately misrepresented) chapters in ...

When Sterlin Harjo, the co-creator of “Reservation Dogs,” started writing his first play with the other members of The 1491s, the sketch comedy troupe of which he was member, he and the group began ...

Democracy Now! catches up with Dallas Goldtooth of the comedy group the 1491s, and his father Tom Goldtooth, executive director of Indigenous Environmental Network, at The Place to B, a Paris hostel ...