What Were the Filming Locations for Reservation Dogs?

May 2024 · 3 minute read

'Reservation Dogs' Season Three is right here. The tale facilities round four Indigenous teens in need of to flee Oklahoma. Was the display filmed there?

Katherine Stinson - Author

Season 3 of FX's hit comedy series Reservation Dogs premiered Aug. 2, 2023. So a long way, the display targeted round 4 Indigenous teens seeking to make sense in their lives in rural Oklahoma after the death of considered one of their friends.

The show was co-created by way of Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi.

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The teenagers in query — Elora (Devery Jacobs), Bear (D'Pharoah Woon-A-Tai), Cheese (Lane Factor), and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) — convince themselves that they are going to discover a better life in California than Oklahoma in Season 1. They in finding their very own methods of raising the money for the move.

So, was once Reservation Dogs in reality filmed in Oklahoma? Here's what we know.

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Where was 'Reservation Dogs' filmed?

The Reservation Dogs manufacturing fashion designer Brandon Tonner published in an interview with Conde Nast Traveler that almost all of Season 1 used to be filmed in the the town of Okmulgee, Okla.

Brandon defined that Okmulgee "has a large Indigenous community and the tribal authority administers the land there, so it actually was kind of a stand-in for Sterlin's hometown, which is just about two hours away from Tulsa."

Taika acknowledged (by the use of a Salon file) all the way through a Television Critics Association panel that Reservation Dogs was truly Starlin's tale to inform. Taika said, "I really believe people need to tell their own stories and especially from whatever area they are from."

He endured, announcing that, "It just wouldn't have been appropriate if I had come in and been, like, 'Let's Taika‑fy this show.' It's stealing the story. It's [Sterlin's] town."

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Speaking of Sterlin, the inventive Reservation Dogs visionary posted some behind-the-scenes footage on his Instagram when he used to be on location filming the 2nd season.

He tagged one Reservation Dogs Season 2 filming location at the Muscogee Creek Nation Reservation, which is positioned in Okmulgee. Sterlin has Muskogee heritage and is a member of the Seminole Nation (by way of the same Salon record).

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If indisputably seems like Oklahoma serves as the number one filming location for Reservation Dogs. Sterlin posted a funny picture sell off together with his Season 2 Reservation Dogs director's clapboard. The ultimate image in the post incorporated an Oklahoma flag.

As for Season 3, the Oklahoman has showed it used to be "filmed primarily in Oklahoma."

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Did our heroes make it to California in Season 2?

According to a record from Tulsa 8 News, the Reservation Dogs casting staff put out a casting realize for extras in Oklahoma when Season 2 began filming. Going into the season, it used to be onerous to say if they would in truth make it to California.

However, a number of episode descriptions for Season 2 offered some clues. The synopsis for Reservation Dogs Season 2, Episode 2 learn, "Elora and Jackie's road trip takes a turn for the worse." Season 2, Episode Four teases, "The whole village comes together to send Mabel on her journey."

By the finale, the crew did make it to California, which is the place Season Three will pick up at.

Don't fail to see Reservation Dogs Season Three on FX.

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