Long Con with Sterlin Harjo and Cannupa Hanska Luger

Long Con: Sterlin Harjo & Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ep 11

Long Con is a series of conversations between Director Sterlin Harjo and Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger about life, art, film, history and everything in between - informally shared from the lens of two contemporary Native American artists and friends actively participating in the record of the 21st century. Sterlin Harjo is an award winning Seminole/Muscogee Creek filmmaker who has directed three feature films and a feature documentary all of which address the contemporary Native American lived experience. Harjo is a founding member of the five-member Native American comedy group, The 1491s. Sterlin’s latest project Reservation Dogs, is a television show created in collaboration with Taika Waititi, now available to watch on FX [https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/reservation-dogs].  Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multidisciplinary artist who creates monumental and situational installations and durational performance and often initiates community participation and social collaboration. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota descent.

Long Con: Live at SITE SANTA FE with Sterlin Harjo & Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ep 10 - October 2025

Long Con is a series of conversations between Director Sterlin Harjo and Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger about life, art, film, history and everything in between - informally shared from the lens of two contemporary Native American artists and friends actively participating in the record of the 21st century. SITE SANTA FE celebrated the book launch of SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by hosting a special conversation between the author Cannupa Hanska Luger and filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, moderated by curator Brandee Caoba. They delve into the themes explored in the book and expand into broader reflections on 21st-century Indigeneity.  Sterlin Harjo is an award winning Seminole/Muscogee Creek filmmaker who has directed three feature films and a feature documentary all of which address the contemporary Native American lived experience. Harjo is a founding member of the five-member Native American comedy group, The 1491s. Sterlin’s latest project Reservation Dogs, is a television show created in collaboration with Taika Waititi, now available to watch on FX [https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/reservation-dogs].  Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multidisciplinary artist who creates monumental and situational installations and durational performance and often initiates community participation and social collaboration. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota descent.

Long Con: Sterlin Harjo & Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ep 9, Featuring Pierre Barrera

Long Con is a series of conversations between Director Sterlin Harjo and Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger about life, art, film, history and everything in between - informally shared from the lens of two contemporary Native American artists and friends actively participating in the record of the 21st century. Sterlin Harjo is an award winning Seminole/Muscogee Creek filmmaker who has directed three feature films and a feature documentary all of which address the contemporary Native American lived experience. Harjo is a founding member of the five-member Native American comedy group, The 1491s. Sterlin’s latest project Reservation Dogs, is a television show created in collaboration with Taika Waititi, now available to watch on FX [https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/reservation-dogs].  Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multidisciplinary artist who creates monumental and situational installations and durational performance and often initiates community participation and social collaboration. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota descent.

Long Con: Sterlin Harjo & Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ep 1

ARCHIVE EPISODE FROM 7/1/2021 Long Con is a series of conversations between Director Sterlin Harjo and Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger about life, art, film, history and everything in between - informally shared from the lens of two contemporary Native American artists and friends actively participating in the record of the 21st century. The conversation takes us into the beginning of Harjo’s relationship to Native art rom childhood, through experiences within the Native art market with his peers and into Harjo’s experience in meeting up with Luger in Plymouth, UK to film. We also hear about Harjo’s poetic and visionary approach to the choices he made for Love & Fury’s aesthetic and storyline and Harjo talks about his upcoming exciting TV series with Taika Waititi, Reservation Dogs. Sterlin is an incredible storyteller and we are grateful to share his perspective with you here. We hope you enjoy listening in to this conversation as much as we enjoyed having it. More info: https://www.sttlmnt.org/projects/love-and-fury [https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sttlmnt.org%2Fprojects%2Flove-and-fury&token=548a28-1-1619310768837] About the film Love & Fury: Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo follows Native artists as they navigate their careers in the US and abroad. The film explores the immense complexities each artist faces of their own identity as Native artists, as well as, advancing Native art into a post-colonial world. DIRECTORS NOTE: “The film is a conversation that I’ve wanted to have for a long time. Native art has been shackled to history by a false vision of what Native people are through the settler gaze of our current reality. I wanted to make something bold and in your face, directly putting up a finger to the shackles of the art world and historic representation of our people. We are diverse, we are dark, we are beautiful and so is our artwork. We are human beings.” - Sterlin Harjo LOVE & FURY DIRECTOR  - Sterlin Harjo  EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Robin Ballenger   RUNTIME - 93 minutes

Long Con: Sterlin Harjo & Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ep 3

ARCHIVE EPISODE FROM 9/13/2022 Cracked Open: Sterlin Harjo & Cannupa Hanska Luger In this conversation Sterlin Harjo and Cannupa Hanska Luger reflect on the process and outcome of Sterlin’s journey in creating the hit television series Reservation Dogs, now in its second season. They also talk about creating through a pandemic, lifting up independent filmmakers, swinging for the fences, the actors from Reservation Dogs and their character breakdowns, the latest custom hat by Cannupa, Indigenous film crews, with a little cameo by Sterlin’s son Ayo and so much more. Sterlin Harjo is an award winning Seminole/Muscogee Creek filmmaker who has directed three feature films and a feature documentary all of which address the contemporary Native American lived experience. Harjo is a founding member of the five-member Native American comedy group, The 1491s. Sterlin’s latest project Reservation Dogs [https://www.hulu.com/series/reservation-dogs-5a310c23-e2db-4c9f-a66c-27c2fee43d92], now streaming on Hulu.  This is the third conversation between Sterlin & Cannupa for the podcast - check our archive to listen to the first two conversations. Also check out Sterlin’s podcast ‘The Cuts [https://open.spotify.com/show/7i4VjYcITr9yrK0Eu2Y7SX?si=34d3fdf2591e4554]’ where Sterin chats with the creative team from Reservation Dogs and many other creative peers, including Taika Waititi.