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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Nathan Frankowski’s film “Te Ata,” fully financed by the Chickasaw nation, follows the true story of Broadway actress-turned-storyteller Te Ata, who was born Mary Frances Thompson. In the early 20th ...

Earnest and respectful to a fault, “Te Ata” tells the inspiring true tale of groundbreaking Native American actress and storyteller Mary Frances “Te Ata” Thompson with equal parts grace and unsubtlety ...

The inspiring life of the iconic Native American storyteller is recounted in reverential if clumsy fashion in Nathan Frankowski’s biopic. The life and career of Te Ata, the Native American trailblazer ...

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 ...