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Alta Branch library will be live streaming in the Alta community room, the first speaker in the Brainstorm series, Dallas Goldtooth.
Teton County Library, The Center, and the Jackson Hole News and Guide are proud to present the Brainstorm Speaker Series, to ignite conversation and curiosity.
Dallas Goldtooth is a writer, actor, playwright, film producer, poet, and comedian. He is Dakota from the village of Cansayapi within the territory of the Oceti Sakowin people. Dallas is currently in production on the upcoming Apple+ series The Last Frontier. He is most known for writing and acting on groundbreaking FX series, Reservation Dogs. He recurs on Peacock’s Rutherford Falls, Marvel’s Echo and Amazon’s upcoming series Fall Out. He has also performed on CBS’ Ghosts, Comedy Central’s Drunk History and the BBC. He can next be seen in the Netflix feature Rez Ball and the independent feature Seeds.
He is the co-creator of the Indigenous comedy group, The 1491s and their play Between Two Knees is currently running off-Broadway at PAC NYC. He’s built a dedicated following on TikTok and Instagram of over half a million followers where he educates and inspires his audience with daily musings of his life and activism in the Indigenous community. Dallas is also a climate change activist with his non-profit The Indigenous Environmental Network.