Rutherford Falls

But, um, I feel like it still gets shared on social media constantly.

And, um, I fortunately had a lot of really great voice actors on that show that, you know, helped out, like Janice Speeding voiced a character in it, you know, from Reservation Dogs in Rutherford Falls.

Ty LeClair, who voices a character on the King of the Hill reboot.

John Timothy, who was one of the stars of Spear Rangers.

Because I have this picture, you, Karen and Zoe, Jana and Lily.

Dustin was on Rutherford Falls with Jana.

World lighting.

I mean.

...

Rutherford Falls and Reservation Dogs.

It's crazy.

It's so crazy, man.

I just think the...

I wanna say it's, it's almost the, the luxury of trust in terms of how these different, you know, companies and these different kind of things that were gatekeeping for a long time are trusting Native and Indigenous voices.

And it takes something like, like a Rutherford Falls or like a Rez Dogs to kind of be the, I don't know, to be the impetus to get things to be started.

And yeah, it's super, it's, it's super dope and I love it and yeah, it's just really, it's a great thing.

Mm-hmm.

Um, we were having a conversation the other day about how it's interesting that you have, you've produced, uh, Rutherford Falls, which is about Native American history.

Mm.

Now you're part of Smudge the Blades, which is about a, another indigenous story about an indigenous hockey team in, in Canada.

Is there something going on with you and your production company that these are the kind of stories you're interested in amplifying, or is it a coincidence or?

Um, you know, Rutherford Falls was, was, uh, w- was an e- entry point for me into, uh, the Native American, uh, filmmaking community, and it started out as, uh, a sort of, uh, a way to tell the stories that we wanted to tell in that show Now, the terms of the deal were laid out in this document.

One of those terms was to honor the exact location the deal was made, which is why, a century later, both parties came together and erected a statue of old Lawrence, affectionately known today as Big Larry.

Question

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I have just learned about Rutherford Falls, a show that you created.

Do we know he created it?

Co-created.

Say again, we don't know that much about you.

Again, we don't know m- that much about you, but right now we are sure about Rutherford Falls.

No, we say-

We've invented an idea of you.

That's like the hyper tech version of it, it seems like.

That's that scene in Rutherford Falls where she's, you know.

talking on facebook live and everybody's putting those comments and she's reading the comments she's like oh yeah well what about you oh my

gosh oh yeah this

Of Navajo ancestry, Sydney Freeland is a filmmaker, writer, and director whose work spans film and television.

Her feature films include Drunk Town's Finest and Rez Ball, while her television credits include Reservation Dogs, Rutherford Falls, Grey's Anatomy, Echo, and The Walking Dead.

Freeland made her Star Trek directorial debut with The Serene Squall, the seventh episode of Star Trek Strange New World's first season.

Now let's get into the synopsis, shall we? Yes.