chris eyre, you are the most well-known native american film director in the united states. welcome to our show. >> it's great to be here; awesome. >> hinojosa: but let me ask you something. when people introduce you like that, are you kind of like, "okay, i am native american and i'm a film director, but," you know, "i can be both things and separate things at the same time"? >> yeah, i mean, it's awkward for me, just because, you know, as a person, i hate to wear that, even though some people identify that. but it's good to make work; i mean, that's what it comes down to. it's good to make work, and for me, it's just as an artist-- not as a native person or an american person, but as an artist-- it's important to make things that kind of explore, you know, who we are as americans, who i am as a native american, what tribalism means, and so that's all just, you know, part of it. >> hinojosa: you, though... the film that everybody has seen-- smoke signals-- was extraordinary, because it was the first feature film directed by a native american director that made it to nationa