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New Book Offers Historical Look at Native Americans in Stand-Up Comedy

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"Laughter is so important to our communities, but you would never know from the way we've been portrayed," says Seminole Nation filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, one of the voices in comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff's new book, We Had a Little Real Estate Problem (Simon & Schuster, $27), titled after a reliable punchline by late Oneida Nation comic Charlie Hill about the loss of homelands.

THR spoke with Nesteroff about his deeply reported account of Native Americans in stand-up as well as wider representation in Hollywood.

Harjo, one of the contemporary Native talents who’s very present in your book, talks about the “rehumanization” underway right now, but also that this push is not new.

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