#thelowdownedit

At the beginning of the finale, Chutto [Mato Wayuhi] tells Lee that his family doesn’t care about getting their land back from the Washbergs, and Lee struggles to understand why. Can you talk about that moment? // Land becomes so much about individual ownership, and that’s not the point. Whenever Native people say, “We would like our land back,” it’s not because they want to individually own it. It’s because land is there for community. It’s there for food; it’s there for shelter; it’s a basic human need. And it’s caused so much pain in this country because people have this idea that they need to own it. It’s made people sick, it’s made people fight, and it’s making many people die. - Sterlin Harjo interviewed by the AV Club

So I was thinking maybe we should just make things easy and I'll live with Mom. // Just listen to me, all right? I'll bet you anything in the history of daughters and dads that this kind of conversation has happened a lot. All right? And I know that not one daughter ever actually wanted their father to say, "Okay, cool." I know dads leave. My dad left. I mean, dads leave. But I don't leave. Got it?

THE LOWDOWN Chapter One: The Sensitive Kind

I've taken them so many times. If you take it with a beer, it goes great.

He could use a ribbon shirt though, right?

You don't seem to like anything anymore. Not even me.