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.
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.
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.
RETURN:
A Witness to Our Time
Not told about us. Told by us.
A documentary podcast on Native sovereignty,
American Indian health, and lived realities
across Tribal Nations in the United States
Featuring Mo Brings Plenty
Produced by Return Studios & Tribal Nations Health
Coming June 2026
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.
ABOUT THE HOST
Mo Brings Plenty
Mo Brings Plenty is an actor and advocate with deep ties to community, story, and tradition. His work reflects a commitment to representation that is grounded, not performative. In RETURN, he leads conversations with care and clarity—creating space for people to speak from their own experience, in their own words.
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 June
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
We want to thank our Co-Presenting Sponsor, BRMS
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.
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.
MEDICINE WHEEL
The medicine wheel holds the story.
Circle of Seven begins by looking back—to an older understanding of health as balance among body, spirit, family, community, memory, and place. These films move beyond clinic walls into reservations, homes, gathering spaces, and tribal leadership rooms to listen closely to the people living the story.
Physicians, nurses, traditional practitioners, tribal leaders, and tribal citizens speak plainly about what care looks like in Indian Country: what has endured, what has been lost, what is working, what is missing, and what dignity requires. The medicine wheel gives the series its center of gravity: healing is relational, not just clinical.
WAGON WHEEL
The wagon wheel carries the work forward.
If the medicine wheel holds memory, the wagon wheel carries motion. Circle of Seven shows how progress happens when Native communities have access to the best tools the modern world can offer: strong clinical systems, physicians and specialists, diagnostics, telehealth, broadband, transportation, and emerging tools—including data and AI—that can extend reach and improve care.
This is not a choice between tradition and progress. It is a question of alignment. The future is strongest when Western medicine and modern technology are placed in service of tribal priorities, local leadership, and human relationships. With the right support, care can move faster, farther, and more effectively.
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.