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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Last year’s Hidden Figures introduced the world to three underrecognized women of color who changed American history; now the film Te Ata is bringing another to light. The biopic tells the story of ...

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 ...

Te Ata, the feature film that stars Q’orianka Kilcher and tells the true story of the renowned Chickasaw storyteller who entertained at the White House, befriended the First Lady, performed for ...

Native American Heritage Month is celebrated each November to provide a platform for Native people in the United States to share their culture, traditions, music, crafts, dance, and ways and concepts ...