Q'orianka Kilcher of 'The New World' plays the title role in 'Te Ata,' a biopic about the famed Native-American performer. By Frank Scheck That it was produced by the Chickasaw Nation signals that the ...

Though it often resembles an innocuous Hallmark movie, the biographical drama “Te Ata” proves an illuminating, sometimes moving intersection of history, family conflict and the sort of rising, ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, together with the Chickasaw Nation and Oklahoma City University, present “Te Ata,” a play based on the life of Chickasaw storyteller Mary ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. During November, the Friday Film Club at Camden Public Library is honoring ...

Last month, actor Adam Beach wrote an important guest column about what Native Americans have gone through in this country over the past 200 years and the historical trauma of having your culture ...

Te Ata (TAY' AH-TAH) is based on the inspiring true story of Mary Thompson Fisher, a woman who traversed cultural barriers to become one of the greatest Native American performers of all time.

Overcoming racial prejudice to become a popular storyteller, Native American performer Te Ata Fisher — who died in 1995 at age 99 — led an inspirational life. How ironic, then, that the biopic “Te Ata ...

The life and career of Te Ata, the Native American trailblazer who celebrated her people’s culture through performance and, in doing so, helped educate the country about Native traditions, is ...

The inspiring life of the iconic Native American storyteller is recounted in reverential if clumsy fashion in Nathan Frankowski’s biopic. The life and career of Te Ata, the Native American trailblazer ...