‘Remaining Native’ Review: A Native American Takes Inspiration From Ancestors While Training for a Long-Distance Scholarship in Absorbing Doc

‘Remaining Native’ Review: A Native American Takes Inspiration From Ancestors While Training for a Long-Distance Scholarship in Absorbing Doc

In recent years, there have been a number of dramas and documentaries detailing the appalling mistreatment of Native American children forcibly held in church- and state-run Indian Boarding Schools — ranging from the Taylor Sheridan-produced “1923” to the Oscar-nominated “Sugarcane” — for such historical overviews to comprise a subgenre. Such eye-opening depictions of 19th and 20th-century atrocities, much like the contemporary accounts on the i…

A Runner’s Odyssey Through History: ‘Remaining Native’ at SXSW

(PHOTO: She Carries Her House) At this year’s SXSW, Remaining Native emerged as a powerful documentary that intertwines personal ambition with historical legacy, a film that dares to ask what it means to run—not just toward a finish line, but toward a future shaped by the past. Directed by Paige Bethmann, a filmmaker of Haudenosaunee (Mohawk/Oneida) descent, this absorbing portrait follows Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old from Nevada’s Yerington Paiute…