TULSA — Cherokee Nation ‘s efforts to grow the TV and film industry in northeast Oklahoma are paying off, with several incentive-supported productions premiering this fall.

These productions helped usher in more than $3.6 million in spending within the Cherokee Nation Reservation and supported the hiring of 149 Native Americans for the projects’ development, pre-production, production and post-production phases.

Cherokee Nation was the first tribe to offer its own film incentive, which launched in 2022, and can be combined with the state of Oklahoma’s film incentive, as well as additional support from the Tulsa Office of Film, Music, Arts and Culture.

“The purpose of our film incentive is to help bring film and TV productions to our region, to utilize our resources and to hire our

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