‘Reservation Dogs’ Star D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai on the Show’s ‘Bittersweet’ End, Telling Accurate Native Stories and Hopes for Bear’s Future 

Of all the feel-good stories this Emmy season, none feels better than the overdue recognition of “Reservation Dogs,” the FX coming-of-age comedy that earned four nods for its third and final season after the first two installments failed to break through. One of those nominations went to D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, the 22-year-old Canadian actor who plays protagonist Bear, a member of the namesake crew of Native teens in Okern, Oklahoma.

Bear begins the series devastated by the recent suicide of his best friend, Daniel (Dalton Cramer), and schemes with the rest of the Dogs to abandon their home for California. He ends the show with the blessing of his dubiously

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