About this Event
Comedian Joey Clift presents his book We’ve Been Here the Whole Time!: A Not So Sacred Guide to All Things Native America, alongside Matika Wilbur, photographer for Project 562 and founder of Tidelands. The evening will open with a comedy and music set from dk. This event is co-presented by Potlatch Fund.
Potlatch Fund is a Native-led intermediary that supports Native individuals, Native-led and serving organizations, over 50 Native nations, and over 225 Alaska Native Tribal communities on the traditional and ancestral unceded territories of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
Registration is not required, but helps us anticipate audience size.
Native comedian Joey Clift takes you on a hilarious journey to discover the largest population you don't know in this sharp debut for fans of Michael Harriot and Phoebe Robinson.
Put away the construction paper: this contraband book contains everything your high school refused to teach you about Native American history, people, and culture—illustrated in an irreverent textbook-meets-notebook style by Diné artist Julie Fiveash.
Comedian Joey Clift (Cowlitz tribe) walks you through a wide range of misconceptions, weird questions, and even weirder assumptions, covering everything from Pocahontas and sports mascots to ancestry claims and the Land Back movement.
- A hilarious, NDN-approved guide to Native America
- Great gift for history buffs, teachers, and comedy fans
- Interact with satirical flowcharts, quizzes, and more
- Joyfully defiant illustrations by Julie Fiveash
- Foreword by Shane Hawk (Never Whistle at Night)
- Includes a trove of Native resources for allies
- Perfect fans of The Daily Show's America (The Book) and F*cking History
Pick up this conversation-starting book and turn your boring Thanksgiving into a fun “You're Welcome” dance party!
Joey Clift is a Los Angeles-based, Peabody and Emmy-nominated comedian, TV writer, director and enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Joey attended college to become a local TV weather person because he didn’t see any Native American comedians on television as a kid, and that made him believe he wasn’t allowed to work in comedy. He has since proven otherwise, writing for critically acclaimed TV series like Spirit Rangers on Netflix, Molly of Denali on PBS, Smartypants on Dropout and Paw Patrol on Nickelodeon. Joey created Gone Native, a Webby-winning Comedy Central Digital series and his short films have screened everywhere from Just for Laughs to the Smithsonian Museum.
Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) is one of the nation’s leading photographers, based in the Pacific Northwest. She earned her BFA from Brooks Institute of Photography where she double majored in Advertising and Digital Imaging. Her most recent endeavor, Project 562, has brought Matika to over 300 tribal nations dispersed throughout 40 U.S. states where she has taken thousands of portraits, and collected hundreds of contemporary narratives from the breadth of Indian Country all in the pursuit of one goal: To Change The Way We See Native America.
Gracing rooms full of unsuspecting white folk since 2017, comedian and multi-instrumentalist performer dk is more than happy to make you uncomfortable. A firm believer that the stitch in your side is best accompanied by a twist of the knife, a punchline from dk may knock loose a few settler teeth. An indigik’were kitkehaki born and raised in Alaska, dk is a phd in white mans ways, and is happy to teach the less informed with their signature grin.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, United States
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