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She knew it would be a good opportunity to reach millions of young children and their parents with the same message she had been bringing to her concert audiences for years: “Indians exist.”Īmong Sainte-Marie’s first Sesame Street appearances was a location shoot in Taos, New Mexico, for a full week of shows. They hadn’t, but they called her back with a new offer to include her as a writer and contributor and appear as a semiregular cast member. “I said, have you ever done any Native American programming?” she recalls. But before she hung up she asked a question.
She was busy with other ventures, and she didn’t really want to go all the way to New York just to count to ten like everyone else who made a guest appearance. According to author Michael Davis’s 2008 book, Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, at the end of its first year, Sesame Street was in the homes of 1.9 million Americans, and a decade later, more than 9 million American kids under the age of six watched it daily.īuffy Sainte-Marie didn’t expect the phone call from Sesame Street’s producers asking her to be a typical one-shot guest on the show, and in fact, she almost said no. They also cast everyday kids, not child actors, to play the children of Sesame Street. White characters were deliberately in the minority. The show was aimed at preschoolers and had specific goals about reflecting accurate and nonjudgmental depictions of the lives of inner-city kids it was set in a brownstone tenement, and the cast included strong African American characters Gordon and Susan (who were the cornerstone of the street) and Hispanic characters Maria and Luis (added in 1972). “’ Sesame Street’ Dazzles in Television Premiere” read a headline in Variety. I n 1975, Sesame Street had only been on the air six years, but already, it had revolutionized children’s television and was considered a cultural institution.
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