Lessons from Trickster: Story, Humor and Survival

About this episode

Julian Brave NoiseCat discusses his book 'We Survived the Night', exploring themes of survival and storytelling.

What does it mean to survive—and who carries the story afterward? When writer and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat talks about survival, he does not begin with abstraction. He begins with a story. On this episode of All My Relations, Julian joins us to discuss his new book, We Survived the Night, a father–son narrative shaped in the tradition of a Coyote story—layered, funny, painful, and exacting in its truths. The book traces Julian’s relationship with his father through ancestral structure ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Matika Wilbur, Temryss Lane

Guest: Julian Brave NoiseCat

Topics covered

• survival
• storytelling
• father-son relationship
• Coyote stories
• humor
• cultural narratives

Keywords

• survival
• story
• humor
• father-son
• Coyote story
• Julian Brave NoiseCat
• We Survived the Night

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: We Survived the Night

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