Myron Dewey

Myron Charles Dewey (16 July 1972 – 26 September 2021) was a filmmaker and journalist from the Walker River Paiute Tribe.

Dewey was noted for reporting on issues at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation especially for co-directing the 2017 documentary Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock.

Early life Dewey was born on 16 July 1972, to parents Herbert Dini Jr. of Schurz, Nevada and Cynthia Dewey of Bishop, California. his Indigenous name was Ahu-auh-bud-shoe-knaw-me.

He attended Gabbs K-12 School and studied computer systems and business information at Haskell Indian Nations University, graduating with a degrees in each in 2002 and 2003. He later attended the University of Kansas and graduated with a master's degree in Indigenous nation studies in 2007. Later, he worked as an academic, teaching film-making at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies and at Northwest Indian College in Washington state. While gathering footage, his use of drone filming attracted accusations of criminality form authorities, later dismissed. In 2017 he won an award at the New York City Drone Film Festival in the category of News/Documentary for his work filming police at the protest site.

In 2018, he won an Award of Merit from the University of Kansas Department of Film & Media Studies. Nye County two to three hours after a car crash on 26 September 2021, aged 49.