Movies: Michael McDermit

The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas have forced the Tri-Council of Cherokee tribes to declare a State of Emergency for the language in 2...

Fifty years ago, Tim McDermit fell 40 feet from his college dorm roof. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and was diagnosed with aphasia, a language disorder which left him unable to speak. Though 2 million others in the U.S. suffer from aphasia, f...

Each day at the Oklahoma National Stockyards, the hypnotic chants of cattle auctioneers fill the exchange floor from dawn into the night. Livestock buyers gather from all around the country to outbid each other in a time-honored ritual that is just a...

Every 17 years like clockwork, the skies of the northeastern United States are filled with millions of cicadas singing passionate songs of romantic longing. Amorous swarms of Brood X, the largest group of periodical cicadas on earth, emerge from deep...