You've got to see these Oklahomans on the big screen

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I'm Moran Elwell, features editor at The Oklahoman, which affords me a front row seat to the latest news coming out of Oklahoma's entertainment world courtesy of reporter Brandy McDonnell. This week, she took a look at the growing amount of Native American representation in film and tv shows. The titles she writes about are gaining critical and popular acclaim and most of us will probably find several on our must-watch lists: "Prey," "Reservation Dogs," "Dark Winds," and "Rutherford Falls" to name a few.

It's a list Indigenous actors, filmmakers and entertainment workers say they are proud of. Brandy talked to Osage artist and "Reservation Dogs" writer Ryan RedCorn, who says he's amazed his daughters will grow up in a world where this level of representation is normal.

Joanna Hearne, a Native American media scholar at the University of Oklahoma, said her classes used to be hard to teach due to a lack of materials. Now, she said, there are so many options available her students just have to subscribe to a streaming service.

Read Brandy's story to find out more about these shows and about how producer Jhane Myers, a Comanche and Blackfeet artist, dancer and filmmaker who hails from Oklahoma, played a vital part in incorporating realistic Native American aspects in the new "Predator" prequel "Prey." The movie not only incorporates Comanche words in the story, but a version of "Prey" fully dubbed in the Comanche language also is available on Hulu.

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: You've got to see these Oklahomans on the big screen