AMERICAN THEATRE: While going through a series of notes meetings on a TV show she had with a network, Lakota playwright and MacArthur Fellow Larissa FastHorse jokes that she came up with “the worst drinking game in the world,” to wit: “If I took a drink any time they said ‘tone’—as in ‘I don’t understand this tone’—I would just be dead.”
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This is the first time I can recall seeing an article about indigenous people within the theater scene. Which I feel shows a lot in terms of the lack of indigenous people within the theatrical industry, and how their voices are continuously diminished, especially compared to that of their white peers. So when I read this article, I was happy to see that Larissa elaborated on how her writing as an indigenous person is made for those within her community. That sense of being able to write about your experience and who you are, and have other people relate to this is such an important thing to have especially within the theater realm. I felt like Larissa FastHorse’s satirical play on thanksgiving is very funny and interesting. By using thanksgiving a holiday, that misrepresents what happened to the indigenous people of America specifically. It brings forth a plethora of themes, and topics that need to be discussed surrounding the attempt of erasing indigenous history and voices.
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