Indigenous Performance Productions

Help us manifest our new storytelling project:  "Stories from the Warrior Society", a project featuring storytelling from Native American Veterans.

We are seeking your support to help fund the residency to develop this project including:  live storytelling events for two public high schools, storytelling workshops for community and youth and a live storytelling event.  All these activities will become the core of a feature length documentary that will be made over the next year.

What is "Stories from the Warrior Society"?

Presented by Indigenous Performance Productions in partnership with Washington Center for the Performing Arts.  The project residency will occur on January 19-24, 2026.  The project hope to offer a narrative of home - focusing on the importance of connection to community and culture to help combat isolation, trauma and 'othering'.

The live storytelling show will feature six Native active duty or veterans.  Rooted in oral tradition, stories will be preserved as a cultural resource for Native and intercultural communities.  Warrior Societies, traditionally rooted in hunting, protection of community and the vulnerable - have existed long before the creation of the United States.  Rooted in place, memory and collective experiences, Stories from the Warrior Society honors the continuity of tradition.  We seek to reclaim the definition of the Warrior as a role that is connected, answerable and supported by community and that exists to serve the greater good.

Here is a work sample from a ongoing project, "The Aunties" for context of what IPP does:

Filming "The Aunties"	Film Crew
Filming "The Aunties"	The Aunties school Show