Joanelle Romero and Sivan Alyra Rose are both Apache, actresses and have become firsts in the entertainment industry including Native Women in FILM and Television.

Joanelle Romero is best known for her first lead role in the first contemporary American Indian Woman’s story, produced in 1977 and was the first time an American Indian actress carried a leading role in ‘The Girl Called Hatter Fox (C.B.S. Television Movie) including Ronny Cox, Conchata Ferrell.

Its taken Hollywood 42 years to produce another TV production where an American Indian woman stars, this time its a series.

Sivan Alyra Rose becomes the first American Indian to play a lead role in a series Netflix’s ‘Chambers’ includes Oscar-nominated actress Uma Thurman and actor Tony Goldwyn.

‘The Girl Called Hatter Fox’ was ground-breaking television viewing in 1977. It was in the talks that C.B.S. was thinking about producing this TV movie as a series however it never happened. “In 1996, I produced and starred in the first all American Indian TV pilot “Home, Home on the REZ’ shot in Taos NM, included Elaine Miles (Northern Exposure); Larry Sellars (Dr, Quinn Medicine Woman), we all had high hopes back then. An executive producer Justin Falvey (BULL) and at the time worked for Steven Spielberg told me, ‘Joanelle you are 20 to 25 years ahead of your time,’ he was right,” quotes Joanelle Romero, “My production company Red Nation Films is now in meetings to have the series picked up this year”.