A Rez Tale: A Novel
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‘A Rez Tale’ is the story of Michael Redshade and Jason Harvey, two childhood best friends living on the Wind River Indian Reservation whose lives are sent on opposing trajectories when an event changes their lives. As the story unfolds, the ideals of mythology and truth, of heritage and history unwind as the two former friends meet up after ten years apart.
As their paths diverge, we see how life has treated these former friends. As one schemes, the other drifts. Both are hurt by the wreck that ended their friendship. As their paths are forced to cross again, unexpected forces and events set them on their paths on a larger stage."A Rez Tale" is the upending of myth, the exploration of love and friendship, and the examination of tribal politics which fuse the story and adds texture as the rez tale unfolds to its startling conclusion.
Told in an unmistakable voice ,"A Rez Tale" is a story that questions the typical representation of reservation stories. As Michael and Jason discover their roles in life, we hear the unmistakable voice of Ernest M Whitman III (The Autobiography of Blue Woman Volume One), a Northern Arapaho tribal member writing from his experiences and perspective.
Ernest M. Whiteman III
Ernest M. Whiteman III is a Northern Arapaho filmmaker, artist, writer, media educator, and former child superhero. He graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film/Video Directing in 2004.Ernest is still in production on a full-length, full-text feature film contemporary adaptation of HAMLET that will feature a full cast of Native American actors. He works on a couple of online series on YouTube, has completed a western genre screenplay, "Nameless: A Western", and is working on an urban Indigenous zombie script.As a writer Ernest has completed a novel-length unpublished manuscript, "Once Upon a Time on the Rez" in 2003, and has self-published a collection of short stories entitled "The Autobiography of Blue Woman". He continues to add to the world of Blue Woman. He has completed and published to Smashwords his second novel manuscript "A Rez Tale".As an artist, he is working on a ledger art project, “NAMELESS: The Authentic and Magical Ledger Art of EW3” which has had a preview showing at the Citlalin Gallery in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago and is currently featured on the book arts website Affinties. He continues to randomly draw stuff.Ernest serves as the Director of First Nations Film and Video Festival, Inc. a 501c3, non-profit film festival dedicated to supporting Native American directors of all skill levels and working to find them a venue to express their views and screen their works, and works hard at securing venues and film and promotions for two annual film festivals.Ernest works as a Teaching Artist for several organizations, such as Chicago Arts Partners in Education and the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. Ernest teaches an upper-level course “Native Americans in Media” at the University of Wisconsin Parkside where he develops curricula based on Native American first-voice and self-representation in media, media literacy, his concepts of the Authorship of Expertise and how it pertains to authority, expertise and representations of Native American culture and media.Ernest has Associates degrees in both Native American Studies and Radio/TV Broadcasting from Central Wyoming College in Riverton, WY. He was selected as part of the Illinois Humanities Roads Scholars Speakers Bureau for 2021-22. He currently lives in Skokie, IL. Not bad for a nameless Arapaho from Wyoming."As an artist your greatest enemy, is your own history." Brian Eno 2011
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