Smoke Signals (1998): "It's the United States." / "That's as foreign as it gets!"

Smoke Signals (1998).

[@danuabitdelulu]

As an indigenous person, I can confirm that we are exactly like this

[@forgeconway1388]

Me and my family all love coke so possibly

[@hybrid5568]

And alot of us do say ENIT alot hehe. ENIT danu? Hehe

[@leighannstumblingbear2380]

Damn straight. I had friends just like Lucy & velma. When I was a kid I had such a crush on a boy. His family moved back to the Rez. He looked like Thomas. Eeey!✊

[@the3rdkind216]

As an Indian I know this well eh

[@hugofarias9150]

Im a bolivian-brazilian with native decendence, c'mon, first at all we are people, we are human beings, just like John Trudell have sayed.

[@Shamnez7367]

“All the hippies were tryna be indians anyway”😭💀

[@Zoie3x8]

well, its true, isn't it ? :P

[@MsKathleenb]

'Pleaded down to Being an Indian in the 21st century.' Love this movie so much!

[@melaniecravens7240]

I could listen to him tell stories forever. His part is so cute

[@melaniecravens7240]

The car going backwards is priceless

[@jonmacdonald5345]

It's a Rez car!

[@wwefuture01]

Why was the car going backwards?

[@dylanhenry2010]

@@wwefuture01 it was just stuck in reverse

[@silvernez-perry8793]

@@wwefuture01 that’s the only gear that works!

[@umartra7452]

My brother in law did this in California but his car could go forward! He's not indigenous either, to this day I'm not sure why he did that.

[@mjmartinejohn]

"Plea bargained that down to being an Indian in the 20th century." What a line!

[@stone1488]

Watched this movie today in class and ngl it was such a good movie

[@ailisfaleiro3963]

Cool! What class was that?

[@matthewkincanon9674]

Got to meet Evan Adams (Thomas) once. He's super down to earth and kind. Just a remarkable individual. I've heard Elaine Miles (the woman driving the car) is very friendly too.

[@misscheer4eva]

I've got to meet Irene Benard and Adam beach bc both are family friends and Adam played one of my family members in wind talkers

[@AZperson25]

The radio broadcasts in this movie are everything

[@TheRedcat14]

1:30 her little face and then returning to driving; like she nailed this character 😂

[@shannono8397]

Such a good movie, haven't seen it in years. So many good lines~

[@a.printup8811]

Fine example of the oral tradition!

[@tmmaston]

Fun fact: Both Irene Bedard and Michelle St. John are the voices of Pocahontas and Nakoma.

[@whosthat7967]

That's awesome

[@zoecavill8166]

This comment just made this scene so much better

[@briarrose7584]

And Adam Beach played Squanto for Disney.

[@PrincessTama2003]

I love Lucy and Velma sm. They're such aunties.

[@nikkihall8844]

Lucy (Elaine Miles) who was driving the car played the wife of Graham Greene’s character from The Last of Us.

[@clebert6655]

This whole clip is hilarious.

[@keywestconch8]

All of the expressions on Victor's face goes through the 5 stages of wtf

[@PatrickJDylan]

This film should have won Oscars.

[@Guitcad1]

OMG! I have to watch this movie again!

[@ynwben576]

I should get a car that drives backwards😂😂

[@kevinsPEACHYlife]

Just put the gear in reverse and voila

[@alexanderaguirre5566]

I love this movie

[@TerlinguaTalkeetna]

Sherman Alexie great book, his screenwriting and Chris Eyre's direction made a real breakthrough movie in '98 with an amazing indigenous cast of fine players and of course some good nonnative cast as well. At the time it was one of the finest and truest fictional movie made about our first nations and their lives.

[@Userqwerty349]

"What should we do today?" "Let's get in the car and drive in reverse." "Great! We do that every day anyway."

[@Mayito_Tamps]

Thomas Should Of Been A Marvel Writer 🤣

[@tmmaston]

1:16 Here you go, Lucy Goosy. Have a Coke, eh?

[@JuliaLargo-k6m]

lol

[@FabledHeroes3351]

I need to find this damn movie

[@discovery56]

Me too 😂

[@goteem9118]

In the beginning where the radio host says some ones name from "desmet" not spelled like that, but that is a real place. My family is from there. The REZ.

[@Xxyyxx-gc9kq]

We are him and him is us

[@EricGray-zr2es]

This movie is special.

[@Songdaddy]

I remember seeing this for the for the first time in Flagstaff AZ. My wife and I let to get there early to get the best seat. Before you know every seat was filled. My wife looked around and said, "We're surrounded by Indians." I said, "What do you mean WE white woman." Everyone heard this and laughed.

[@raph3156]

Best movie ever 💖🙌💎

[@tmmaston]

Velma and Lucy remind me of 2 Latina girls, even though they are both Native American.

[@doody244]

That makes sense. There are different ethnic groups that have interchangeable personalities. A lot of people say Jews and Italians are very similar in some ways. I have a close friend who is a pizza bagel ( half and half). Her mother did convert to Judaism but she still spends Christmas, Easter, etc with her big Italian family. You know who else is a pizza bagel... Fran Drescher aka The Nanny.

[@yadirarivera2387]

Well Latina girls are indigenous they are just more colonized with European etc. So technically Latina girls remind you of Native girls.

[@delwynmarcoux1523]

@@yadirarivera2387 Right!? The comment really illustrates how much latinx culture has been mentally separated from native culture but is still really the same. Cause yknow, its the same. more similar to plains natives than west coast natives are.

[@CrazyToxicChild666]

Im gonna watch this movie tonight 😆

[@mauricewahtomy3289]

Thats right ennit? Fuck gimme a coke

[@wildmike85]

The look he gives him at 3:08 hahaha.

[@ProphetessLalla-RookhSky]

Weather report 👍🕊️✝️🎼🌹🎼🕊️✝️🦅✝️ AMAZING HOLY SPIRIT 🌹🎼🎼👍👍

[@melaniecravens7240]

He told the tale well he's a doll

[@deforestcarterMVA]

That’s right ennit…. Said every native ever lol

[@Mayito_Tamps]

I hear that in South Texas all the time

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

My favorite scene in the whole movie

[@skccho2943]

I read the book in high school and loved it. So much better than other crap we had to read like joy luck club

[@melaniecravens7240]

I want me a Thomas. Sweet

[@rukeyser]

Saw film when it came out - car & driver were the indelible message I took away.

[@ericanguamea5714]

Love this scene

[@olvinyldude]

This Movie is Priceless ... I had a car like that in early 70's ... Now, with the new Commander in Thief, we ALL will have one... Enjoy!

[@christeigen3119]

This movie rocks

[@Nativetrick]

I showed my co-worker ts, and everything in this scene flew over her head, haha ah shyt xD the backwards car kills me

[@RIZEorDIE]

Rez dogs prequel

[@peachgarden5549]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mickibelcourt7539]

best movie ever

[@SG-MT]

"Indian time". 😉👍

[@briarrose7584]

I love the fact that Pocahontas, Nakoma, and Squanto are all in the same movie together!

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

It's like The Net when the master hacker says "In real life" when seeing IRL on the screen.

[@dannypalmer7701]

We had no reveres! Lol

[@ProphetessLalla-RookhSky]

🕊️🔥🌹🔥🕊️

[@AmbitousStylez]

Lol they plea bargained that down to being a native in the 21st century

[@drprunejuice9654]

This is like my tribe

[@Zbezt]

Hahahahahahahahahahaaahahaaahaaa i love these films XD so fucken good~

[@tmmaston]

Anyone know the song that was playing on Lucy's car radio that Velma said she loved?

[@xuwennn]

road buddy by dar williams, hope this helps!!

[@tmmaston]

​​@@xuwennnhank you! It did help. I knew it sounded like Road Buddy but it's been forever since I've seen this movie.

[@terrenceharris-hughes4436]

Why does she only drive backwards

[@EmmaGoldmanlovesyou]

Velma is like the Indigenous version of Pauly Shore

[@effyrolo]

Why haven’t we changed one bit 😂

[@tmmaston]

1:16 Here you go, Lucy Gucy! Have a Coke, eh?

[@2fiftez578]

2022: Hope you two got your vaccinations.

[@Darmacappraisals]

O the irony

[@ihopethispops]

They look like my cousins lol

[@Userqwerty349]

Elaine Miles is great.

[@irismonnier2023]

Où puis-je voir le film en entier?

[@Sheershepard]

I grew up on this movie and it always bothered me how much these two girls look exactly like two of my sisters. Like exact doppelgangers. I started to think it was my childhood imagination, but nah i still struggling to tell the difference between my sisters and them

[@linkdavid]

Got Stoic?

[@ttscatter6891]

Hey victor heard your dad left

[@zachhardin5954]

Make love not war lol

[@chiefchepa187]

Damn you gotta love to be Indian

[@Chiefer1991]

Hola. 😂

[@Userqwerty349]

Lester Fallsapart.

[@chamboyette853]

Love the last part. One thing that pisses me off is how history books underplay the fact that the westward expansion issue was a huge reason for the revolutionary war. The British wanted to respect the boundaries at the Appalachian mountains and the Americans wanted to go west and drive the natives off of their lands. Had the British won the natives would have clearly been better off, like in Canada. People get so moralistic about the Confederate flag saying it was for slavery, but I would wager that the average soldier fighting the British thought much more about westward expansion than the average confederate (who was usually to poor to have slaves) about slavery.

[@YCt37689]

Good point!

[@chamboyette853]

@@YCt37689 Thanks. Wish many SJWs against the Confederate flag would recognize this. If they want to condemn it they can go ahead, but at least to be consistent in their judgment of the American flag.

[@Rzo139]

"...better off, like in Canada." So, the many missing and dead Indigenous women are "better off"?

[@distanctive4768]

@@Rzo139 shitty and horrible but better than how it is for natives in the states. Saying that as a Native American who lives in Canada. But even tho it’s better, doesn’t mean it’s great, or that it devalues the lost indigenous women.

[@apolinarhowell7783]

Aho

[@sykokiitty]

Ick not even