We are an Indigenous media company firmly rooted at the intersection of storytelling, culture and community.

#IndigenousStoriesEverywhere

How we got here.

  • Indian & Cowboy launched in 2014 as a grassroots, member-supported Indigenous podcast platform dedicated to empowering creators and communities. We dreamed big, envisioning a space for Indigenous podcasts, writing, video, food, music, and culture. But scaling the project proved challenging, and the momentum we built came to a halt during the pandemic.

    We took some time and space away from producing to identify where our place was in the Indigenous content, publishing, and production space.

    And now, we’re back.

  • With a renewed focus and bold new projects, Indian & Cowboy Creative Media Inc. is back to finish what we started. We’re creating and sharing Indigenous stories that are nuanced, complex, and unapologetically rooted in Indigenous truths. Our mission remains the same: to share Indigenous stories with worldwide audiences.

  • Indian & Cowboy Creative Media Inc. develops, creates, and publishes Indigenous stories for worldwide audiences.

    We are currently in development with industry partners, broadcasters, and Indigenous producers worldwide.

    Scripted. Unscripted. Podcasts. Feature films.

    Indigenous stories, everywhere.

“John Wayne is dead. These are our stories.”

  • Ryan McMahon // CEO and Chief Creative Producer

INTRODUCING:

Our world-class storytelling units.

Indian & Cowboy Originals.

The Indian & Cowboy Originals Unit is our broadcast and industry-facing production company that creates, develops, and produces Indigenous stories across all platforms. Occasional pilots, sizzles, and other behind-the-scenes footage will premiere as “Premium Content” on our proprietary platform, allowing us to test and measure audience engagement during the pilot phase. This approach helps us grow sustainable Indigenous-led media while showcasing bold, original storytelling rooted in our communities.

Indian & Cowboy Creative.

The Indian & Cowboy Creative Unit offers corporate video and media production services on a contract basis. These focused, time-limited projects help us generate capital to reinvest in our Indigenous-led platforms and original content development. By working with us, you're supporting a movement that centres Indigenous storytelling while meeting your organization’s media needs with creativity, care, and cultural integrity. We are master storytellers, let us help you tell your story to the world.

Indian & Cowboy Digitals.

Indian & Cowboy Digital will be responsible for Indian & Cowboy's digital platform offerings. Indian & Cowboy Digital is powered on Substack, Youtube, Apple, Spotify. Our digital units collaborate with independent creatives, journalists, archivists, writers, and researchers to publish content across various platforms. These dynamic and groundbreaking partnerships create projects aimed at regional and territorial audiences to amplify local stories and niche interests. We endeavour to find ways to further develop the IP from this work into our Originals unit for development into the mainstream broadcast world.

Indian & Cowboy Education.

The Indian & Cowboy Educational Unit collaborates with Indigenous communities, educators, and curriculum designers to deliver a paywalled platform tailored for diverse audiences looking for leading Indigenous voices working toward decolonization and reconciliation. This platform will be licensed to corporate clients, universities, colleges, high schools, grade schools, non-profit organizations, municipal governments, and individual users for public-facing educational use.

We are led by Anishinaabe creative, Ryan McMahon.

Man in a plaid shirt and cap sitting on a wire chair in a photo studio with a gray backdrop.

RYAN MCMAHON IS AN AWARD-WINNING, DISRUPTIVE, CREATIVE VISIONARY SMASHING THE STATUS QUO ONE STORY AT A TIME.

Ryan McMahon has been a trailblazer in Indigenous comedy, podcasting, and storytelling for nearly two decades. An independent creative known for forward-looking, bold and irreverent storytelling, he’s an award-winning writer, an acclaimed journalist, a highly sought-after keynote speaker, and one of the best Indigenous comedians working today. 

Ryan was nominated for three 2024 Canadian Screen Awards for his work on the Thunder Bay (CRAVE) docuseries: Best Factual Series, Best Writing, and Best Directing. As creator, writer, director, executive producer and host of the series, he won two of the three awards: Best Factual Series and Best Writing. The series was also nominated for two awards at the 2024 Northern Ontario Music & Film Awards, Best Director and Outstanding Television or Video on Demand Series, for which he won both.

McMahon's notable works include the three-time Canadian Screen Award (2024) nominated docuseries Thunder Bay (CRAVE TV, 2023), Teepee Or Not Teepee (CRAVE, Bell Media, 2021), Stories From the Land (CBC Gem, 2020), the Thunder Bay podcast (Canadaland, 2023, 2020, 2018), A 12-Step Program For Canada (CBC Radio One, Day 6, 2017), Colonization Road (CBC TV, CBC Gem, 2015), Red Man Laughing (CBC Radio One, 2014), Ryan McMahon - UnReserved (CBC TV, 2012), Ryan McMahon - Welcome To Turtle Island Too (CBC TV, 2010).

Ryan is a proud dad to Ella, Jane, Sam, and Thomas. He lives in Hamilton, ON, with his partner Madeline and children.

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Our 2025-2027 Development Slate

We are an emerging Indigenous production company looking to smash the status quo in North America’s broadcast, streaming, and FAST world.

Our development slate projects are in various stages of development, some in late-stage development, some in very early days.

We tell Indigenous stories to worldwide audiences and are always open to co-development and co-production opportunities. Get in touch if you’d like to talk about any of the work we’re doing.

  • At Indian & Cowboy, we have a scaleable and aggressive development plan with a number of projects in the works. Here is our scripted development slate:

    • Bunny

    • Don't Call Me Chief

    • Rezorted

    • Mooshum

    • The Big Smoke

    • The Ticket

  • At Indian & Cowboy, we have a scaleable and aggressive development plan with a number of projects in the works. Here is our unscripted development slate:

    • Morrisseau

    • Repatriate

    • Best F'kn Story, Ever

    • The Greatest Sound In The World

    • Invisible Cities

    • Centre of the Universe

    • Indian Giver - The World Native America Built

  • At Indian & Cowboy, we have a scaleable and aggressive development plan with a number of projects in the works. Here is our film development slate:

    • 7 Clans

    • The Ticket

    • The Big Smoke

    • Mooshum

  • At Indian & Cowboy, we have a scaleable and aggressive development plan with a number of projects in the works. Here is our podcast development slate:

    • Nukes

    • Best F'kn Story, Ever

    • Sound of Steel

    • The Greatest Sound In The World

    • The Indian Bible

    • Invisible Cities

    • We're All Mad Here

*slate subject to change

**we’re always looking for creative partnerships and new stories to tell, don’t hesitate to contact us to discuss parternships and the development of projects with us.

Get in touch.

At Indian & Cowboy Creative Media Inc., we believe in the power of connection and collaboration. Whether you have a question, a story to share, or a partnership opportunity, we’re here to listen and engage.

We’re always excited to connect with like-minded individuals and organizations. Don’t hesitate to reach out—your story could be the next one we help tell.

📧 For Partnerships & Projects email: info@indianandcowboycreative.com

📧 For Collabs and Brand Deals email: collaborate@indianandcowboycreative.com