Julian Brave NoiseCat
11th Hour Fellow, 2022
Julian Brave NoiseCat, 11th Hour Fellow, is a writer and filmmaker. He is the author of the forthcoming We Survived the Night, which will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in North America, Profile Books in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Albin Michel in France, and Aufbau Verlag in Germany. He is concurrently co-directing his first documentary, SUGARCANE, alongside 2023 New Arizona Fellow Emily Kassie. SUGARCANE will follow the search for and excavation of unmarked graves at the Indian residential school NoiseCat's family attended in Williams Lake, British Columbia.
Selected Work
- : A story about Cheyenne Brady, former Miss Indian World, and her quest to count residents of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in the 2020 census for Snap Judgement.
- : An overview of the impacts of Secretary Deb Haaland鈥檚 cabinet nomination for POLITICO Magazine.
- : A story about how Indigenous narratives test the limits of journalism in Columbia Journalism Review.
- : A story about the Ouj茅-Bougoumou Cree鈥檚 journey to find a permanent home in the midst of Canadian mining in Canadian Geographic.
- : A history of collisions of genocide and climate disasters at Wounded Knee for 贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚.
Fellowships
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I Told a Native Story That Earned an Oscar Nomination. There Are So Many More to Tell.
Behind the Lens: Filmmakers Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat on Sugarcane