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Reservation Dogs
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  Reservation Dogs American television series Actions Share Share Share to social media Facebook X URL https://www.britannica.com/topic/Reservation-Dogs Share Share Share to social media Facebook X URL https://www.britannica.com/topic/Reservation-Dogs Written by Nick Tabor Nick Tabor is a freelance journalist and the author of Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created. Nick Tabor Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Last Updated: Sep 11, 2024 • Article History Table of Contents Reservation Dogs, comedy-drama television series that ran on the network FX from 2021 to 2023. It follows the lives of four Native American teenagers who live on a reservation in Oklahoma. It was the first American series written and directed entirely by Indigenous people, and it had a mostly Indigenous cast and crew. It won a Peabody Award and two Independent Spirit Awards, and it was widely praised by critics. The show was created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi. Harjo, who is a member of the Seminole Nation and also has Muscogee ancestry, directed several feature films that portrayed ...(100 of 779 words)

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