In what may be one of the most powerful and stirring episodes of the entire run of FX’s “Reservation Dogs,” the series this week took on the horror of assimilation “Indian boarding schools” — and a…
In what may be one of the most powerful and stirring episodes of the entire run of FX’s “,” the series this week took on the horror of assimilation “Indian boarding schools” — and attempt by the government in the 19th and 20th centuries to erase Native culture from the country.
In flashbacks, the Native kids are seen being forced into the school, while not understanding what their captors are saying in English. Harjo says he was inspired by 1970s horror film motifs to set up the scenes., who directed the episode, says reading the script “hits you with so much force, what the episode is about and what happens in it.
“That’s actually what Sterlin had written into the script,” Goulet says. “Because the gibberish is there in the script, and he said, ‘It’s like the Charlie Brown teachers but scarier.’” Meanwhile, Michael Podemski-Bedard, the young actor who plays Koda in the flashbacks, is the son of Jennifer Podemski, who plays the mother of Willie Jack on the show.A language consultant was also on hand to help the young actors with the Kiowa language. “Michael, who isn’t Kiowa, he did those beautifully in a language that was completely foreign. And I was just so proud of them,” Goulet says. “The first take that they did in the language, it was just such an emotional moment.
Back in the modern storyline, Deer Lady finds the old boarding school guard’s house, and eventually kills him.
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