Te Ata is about the true story of Mary Thompson Fisher, a Chickasaw storyteller who was born and raised in the Chickasaw Nation. She became one of the greatest Native American performers ever. The ...

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 ...

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, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Provided by Paladin-Chickasaw Nation Productions Q'orianka Kilcher stars as Te Ata, who grew up in Indian Territory and eventually performed for a U.S.

When Q’orianka Kilcher was a budding actor of 6, an interviewer asked her what roles she dreamed of playing. She couldn’t ...

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 ...

In Chickasha, formerly Indian Territory, but now Oklahoma, the life and world of Te Ata, born Mary Frances Thompson, came back alive last weekend in the world premiere of the play "Te Ata." Staged in ...

A search is underway in the Albuquerque area for Native American actors to star in a tribally-produced feature film that shares the story of a trailblazing Native American entertainer.An open casting ...

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 ...