The film “You’re No Indian” calls attention to a modern- day crisis and a rarely told story of identity, belonging and accountability within native communities across the United States. Screenings of the independently filmed documentary were shown from Jan. 24-25 at Regal Fresno Riverpark.
Executive-produced by Academy Award winners Wes Studio and Tantoo Cardinal and directed by Ryan Flynn, it follows several native individuals from across the western U.S. and their struggles after going through a process known as “tribal disenrollment.”
Tribal disenrollment involves stripping an individual of their tribal citizenship and barring them and any of their future descendants from accessing the benefits of belonging to a tribe. When this happens, often entire families can be ousted from their tribe due to just one relative, dead or alive, being disenrolled…