Larissa FastHorse, a Santa Monica based playwright from South Dakota, ignored several calls from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation because she thought they were spam.
The MacArthur Foundation eventually sent her a text asking to talk with FastHorse. She thought that the meaning of the call would be to contract her consulting firm, Indigenous Direction, which helps organizations and artists create culturally appropriate material about Native communities.
The call, however, was to