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Actress Sarah Podemski sees much kinship between indigenous communities and the Jewish people, particularly when it comes to humor. She would know, after all: she was born in Canada to an Anishinaabe ...

Let's say you're watching a documentary about Native Americans, or reading a book about Native Americans, or attending an art exhibit about Native Americans. Here's what you likely won't be doing: ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.6.2.0285 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/studamerhumor.6.2.0285 Copy URL JOHN WHARTON LOWE is Barbara Lester Methvin ...