'Little House on the Prairie' Reboot Reframes Through Indigenous Eyes

Showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine, star Meegwun Fairbrother, and cultural consultant Julie O'Keefe tell IndieWire how thoughtful ...

“Little House” Showrunner Gets Candid About Importance of Including Osage Perspective in New Series (Exclusive)

We wanted to portray the Mitchell family as fully realized characters that the audience would know and love,” Sonnenshine ...
The Georgia Straight

At Talking Stick Festival, Meegwun Fairbrother's play Isitwendam tracks residential-school fallout

Back in 2008, when actor-playwright Meegwun Fairbrother was finishing his final year of theatre at York University, he was avoiding watching Stephen Harper’s formal federal apology to ...
The Globe and Mail

Review: In Isitwendam at Native Earth, a government official investigating a residential-school claim finds himself

Being Ojibwa means never having to say you’re sorry. While he was writing his new play inspired by and set immediately after the 2008 Government of Canada apology to residential-school survivors, ...
Woman's World on MSN

Meet the new characters of 'Little House on the Prairie'

Netflix’s upcoming Little House on the Prairie series is introducing new characters, including Rebecca Amzallag, Warren ...
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Canadian 'Little House on the Prairie' actors talk Indigenous representation in Netflix retelling

Actors in Netflix's upcoming "Little House on the Prairie" series say the latest adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's book ...
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Isitwendam ambitiously tackles the legacy of residential schools

ISITWENDAM (AN UNDERSTANDING) by Meegwun Fairbrother (Native Earth/Bound to Create). At Aki Studio (585 Dundas East). Runs to March 31. $15-$30. 416-531-1402. See listing. Rating: NNN Meegwun ...
CBC.ca

Burden of Truth's Meegwun Fairbrother on how he learned to embrace his Indigenous identity

Meegwun Fairbrother is an actor of Ojibway and Scottish origin who stars as Owen Beckbie, the tough, smouldering chief of police on CBC's legal drama Burden of Truth. This season he also joined the ...
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Meegwun Fairbrother

Meegwun Fairbrother is of Ojibway and Sottish origin, from Grassy Narrows First Nation. He is a graduate of York University's Acting Conservatory. In addition to being an award-winning actor, Meegwun ...