In January, Ryan Flynn’s documentary “You’re No Indian” was abruptly removed from the 2025 Palm Springs Film Festival lineup because of “scheduling errors.” Six months later, the film, about the controversial practice of removing Indigenous people from tribal roles called tribal disenrollment, will finally debut at the Dances With Films Festival on June 28.
In the film, Flynn explores how tribal disenrollment has stripped over 11,000 Native American people of their tribal membership, thereby erasing their identities, rights and connections to their communities. Fueled by casino profits, political power and personal vendettas, some American tribal governments, according to the doc, are using fear, violence and legal loopholes to erase
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