SAM Talks | Julian Brave NoiseCat

Julian Brave NoiseCat will be sharing about his much-anticipated debut book, We Survived the Night. Drawing from years of immersive reporting, NoiseCat blends oral history, memoir, journalism, and Indigenous mythology in a striking story. This powerful narrative traverses North America in a father-son reckoning, navigating cultural survival, resurgence, and the ongoing erasure and reclamation of Indigenous stories.

NoiseCat’s first book, We Survived the Night, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2025 as well as by Penguin Random House Canada, Profile Books in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Albin Michel in France and Aufbau Verlag in Germany.

NoiseCat’s journalism has appeared in dozens of publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Yorker and has been recognized with many awards including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize, which honors “excellence in long-form, narrative or deep reporting on stories about underrepresented and/or misrepresented groups in the present American landscape.” In 2021, NoiseCat was named in the TIME100 Next list of emerging leaders alongside the starting point guard of his fantasy basketball team, Luka Doncic.

After the talk, stick around for SAM Films: Sugarcane at 2 pm. Julian Brave NoiseCat’s first documentary, Sugarcane, follows an investigation into abuse and missing children at the Indian residential school NoiseCat’s family was sent to near Williams Lake, British Columbia. RSVP for this free screening.