Vickie Ramirez

Brewster’s back after almost a decade and things have changed. He's recovered from his addictions and has become very successful working for a large Corporate Food Company in their bottled water division. Brews is proud of his success and wants to share it with the people of his Rez. Afterall, it's been a bad year. Several jobs have disappeared from the area and there has been a rash of teen suicides. Brews believes a bottled water factory will solve these problems. If the Council allows his Company to build on tribal land and market "Pure Native, waters from the heart of NDN Country", they will offer infrastructure support, small business loans, scholarships and profit-sharing. To Brews this is a great opportunity for the Rez to create their own industry and sustain itself. To his old love Connie, it's a betrayal of everything the Haudenosaunee stand for. Connie believes Brewster is self-colonizing, and that the bottled water factory will destroy the culture, the environment and betray the Seventh Generation. As Brewster works hard to win over the Council and the rest of the Tribal Members, Connie fights to protect tradition and culture. Who will win?

A travel writer who's afraid to leave her neighborhood and a "psychic" shrimp boat captain meet by the River one day. A song ensues - written for the 52nd Street Project and Venecia Escamilla (age 11)

"A Native American woman and a Black man walk into a bar taking refuge from the “die-in” protests at Grand Central over police brutality. With the pub deserted and bartender strangely absent, these two strangers have their run of the place. But as the liquor starts to flow, so do some inconvenient truths. “

When a Native-American land-claim protest in upstate New York gets out of hand, Private
Thomas Lee Doxdater, a Tuscarora member of the National Guard, turns his gun on his mentor
and commanding officer. Now a fugitive from the government and a liability to his own people,
Doxdater must decide whether to make a run to the border or face his actions and take a stand

Smoke is the story of Connie Farmer, a Christian Tuscarora woman and her struggle to connect with the traditional people of her reservation. Connie and her brother are considered outsiders by her people, because her mother converted to Christianity. Traditionally, Clan and tribal membership are identified through the mother, so the entire family (except for her father) are considered outsiders. Connie tries everything (good and bad) to force the people of the Rez to accept her, including seducing one of their leading sons. It doesn’t work. When the play opens she is almost resigned to her fate until her brother returns from his posting in Afghanistan, and announces his engagement - to the sister of the man that Connie seduced. Then, when the most sacred place on the Rez, the Longhouse itself, burns down after a suspicious fire - all eyes turn to Connie.