Return Studios
Bearing Witness to Our Times.
Developing original media, documentary storytelling, educational content, and creative properties that document, preserve, and share the stories shaping Indian Country and the generations to come.
Where Storytelling is Sovereignty
We are the Native-led media company at the heart of the RETURN movement — a family of enterprises bound by the Walking in Two Worlds philosophy. Our work fuses ancestral wisdom with modern storytelling, creating films, podcasts, campaigns, and cultural events that speak to both Native communities and the global stage. Return Studios isn’t just producing content. It is building an ecosystem of storytelling, distribution, and community activation that ensures these voices are not only heard, but carried into history
The Studio Structure
Walking in Two Worlds Storyhouse
(A Return Studios imprint)
Our first production label under the Return Studios roof. This is where the flagship projects are born:
RETURN with Mo Brings Plenty — a biweekly global podcast series hosted by Mo and James Jordan, bringing Native stories into international conversations on resilience and wellness.
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Circle of Seven: Walking in Two Worlds — a 12-part documentary series chronicling seven Tribal Nations as they adopt the Walking in Two Worlds health and wellness plan.Â
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Distribution & Community Outreach Arm for RETURN STUDIOS. This is where content becomes movement: Podcasts, campaigns, and digital activations. Screenings, cultural gatherings, and festival circuits. Corporate, Tribal, and community engagement that ensures RETURN projects live both on screen and in ceremony.
Together, these entities allow us to produce, distribute, and activate with seamless alignment — ensuring sponsors receive both visibility and cultural capital.
Be First to Hear RETURN
Across our communities, people are carrying knowledge, facing pressure, and shaping what comes next. RETURN brings these voices forward—clearly, directly, and without interpretation from the outside.
Join the first listeners and hear the opening conversations as they are released.
A Record From Within
RETURN is a documentary podcast grounded in the realities of Tribal Nations today.
This is not analysis from the outside.
It is lived experience, spoken in real time.
For too long, stories from our communities have been filtered, reframed, or reduced. RETURN exists to hold space for what is real—without speaking over it, without simplifying it.
Across 575 federally recognized tribes and American Indian communities, there is no single story. There are many. RETURN brings those voices forward, on their own terms. These are communities shaped by tradition—by practices, beliefs, and ways of living carried forward over generations. Culture, in its broader sense, is often discussed from a distance. Tradition is lived. RETURN remains grounded in that distinction.
What is shared here is not abstract.
It is personal.
It is ongoing.
It matters now.
We are not waiting to be represented.
We are speaking for ourselves.
Voices Across Tribal Nations
RETURN brings forward voices from across Indian Country—community members, leaders, and those working within American Indian health and the systems that shape it. Each conversation adds perspective. Together, they form a broader record.
Season One
Coming July
The first season follows conversations already unfolding across Tribal Nations.
Episodes will explore Native sovereignty, American Indian health, and the realities communities are navigating today—through the voices of those living them.
This is where the record begins.
Return will be available on all major platforms
RETURN is a documentary podcast produced by Return Studios, in partnership with Tribal Nations Health, focused on Native sovereignty, American Indian health, and lived realities across Tribal Nations in the United States.
We want to thank our Co-Presenting Sponsor, BRMS
Return Studios in partnership with Walking in Two Worlds Storyhouse presents:
Circle of Seven
Seven stories. Six films.
One living circle.
Real doctors. Real practitioners. Real tribal clinics. Real communities.
A cinematic documentary series following healthcare in Indian Country—from tribal clinics and Indian Health Service facilities into reservation communities, homes, council chambers, and conversations with tribal leaders and tribal citizens.
Healthcare sovereignty documented in practice—not proposed in theory.
Cinematic. Enduring. Institutional.
The medicine wheel holds balance, memory, and spirit. The wagon wheel carries movement, expansion, and change.
Two circles shaped by different journeys — now meeting in a shared understanding that neither story stands complete on its own.
Between Mo Brings Plenty and James Jordan, those paths converge — honoring the past while shaping a future that draws from the best of both. A quiet reckoning. A unified direction. A way forward where Indian Country and the American West move together with purpose, dignity, and respect.
PARTNERSHIP
Partner with us to move the circle.
Circle of Seven is built to do more than document need. It is built to attract support, deepen awareness, and help move resources toward real healing in Indian Country.
We are inviting sponsors, philanthropic partners, healthcare organizations, foundations, and aligned allies to stand with us—to help bring these stories to the screen and help expand what is possible on the ground.
If you are interested in sponsoring the series, supporting production, strengthening distribution, or exploring an impact partnership, send us a message.
Stand with us. Help bring healing forward.
THE NEED
The disparity is real—and preventable.
80 years
The average white South Dakotan lives to about 80.
58 years
The average American Indian in South Dakota lives to about 58.
22 year gap
That is a 22-year life expectancy gap.
In South Dakota, that difference is not an abstraction. It is a human measure of underinvestment, unequal access, and preventable loss. Circle of Seven puts faces, voices, and lived experience around the numbers—and shows that with timely care, trusted practitioners, and consistent investment, things can be very different.
ONE LIVING CIRCLE
A Native lens. A national case. A global message.
Told through Native communities because the need is urgent there, Circle of Seven reaches far beyond Indian Country. It reminds the country—and the world—that the future of care must remain human, local, accountable, and rooted in relationship.
These films show what becomes possible when underserved communities are finally seen, heard, and backed with resources.
Seven stories. Six films. One living circle.
For Indian Country. For the country. For the world.