‘Spirits Rangers’: New Kids Series Celebrates Indigenous People and Cultures - Netflix Tudum

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    New Kids Series ‘Spirit Rangers’ Celebrates Indigenous People and Cultures

    “I love my culture, I’ve just never really seen it represented on-screen,” showrunner and creator Karissa Valencia says.

    By Jolie A. Doggett
    Oct. 11, 2022

Kodi, Summer and Eddy may seem like average kids living and working in a national park with their family. But the siblings have a secret: They have the ability to transform into spirits and enter the Spirit Park, where they help protect the natural environment they call home. Together, they make up the Spirit Rangers, and they’re heading to screens to celebrate Indigenous cultures in a whole new way.

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Coming to Netflix on Oct. 10, which is also Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the United States, Spirit Rangers offers preschool-age kids a chance to learn about and explore the cultures, traditions and homelands of Native American communities, through the story of the three siblings.

According to series creator and showrunner Karissa Valencia, Spirit Rangers aims to give much-needed representation to Indigenous kids — a thing Valencia says she did not herself have growing up.

“I just remember that feeling as a little Native kid and just feeling absolutely invisible,” Valencia tells Netflix. "I love my culture and I’ve just never really seen it represented on screen.”

Spirit Rangers also boasts an all-Native writers’ room and a largely native voice cast. cast members are voiced by Native actors. Valencia says that everyone involved in the writers’ room has had an opportunity to tell a story from their own nation or tribe.

“Something I’m really proud of is [that] it is very Native-led,” Valencia says of the Spirit Rangers cast and crew. “There’s a Native voice at every step of the way, and it’s all come from a Native perspective. I just cannot wait for the next generation of Native kids to see more Native content and for people to meet a modern Native family and learn some really cool Indigenous traditional stories.”

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day with your family by watching Spirit Rangers, now streaming on Netflix.

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