“To the heart, she led them there”

HowlRound Theatre Commons: As recounted in her 2016 TED Talk, theatre director Madeline Sayet, a member of the Mohegan tribe, sought vocational guidance early in her career from a prominent elder of the Native theatre movement, Assiniboine playwright and actor William Yellow Robe, Jr. Yellow Robe advised Sayet that in order to have a “really strong Native theatre movement,” Native theatre artists need to “use words from our own languages for what we are doing.”