Murielle Borst-Tarrant/SilverCloud Singers

Using the framework of Dante’s DIVINE COMEDY, Native versions of Virgil and Beatrice lead the audience (Dante) through the various circles of the Hell of Native history and the Purgatory of Indian show business and show biz Indians - but is there a possibility for a Heaven? Utilizing storytelling, music, dance, film, iconic artifacts, the language of The Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and comic-vaudeville skits, the all-Native company takes the audience on a journey through a landscape of the impact of the Doctrine of Discovery and the misappropriation of Native images and racism in film, theater and pop culture, re-explored through a satiric Native lens.