Spirit Rangers

Joey Clift served as a staff writer / consulting producer on all three seasons of the hit Netflix kids animated series Spirit Rangers!

Animated children and animal characters with bright colorful backgrounds. The characters include a blue bear with glasses, a green creature, a yellow and red bird with purple wings, a girl with brown hair, and a boy with a bob haircut in a blue superhero suit. All characters are smiling and appear playful.
Animated children and animal characters with bright colorful backgrounds. The characters include a blue bear with glasses, a green creature, a yellow and red bird with purple wings, a girl with brown hair, and a boy with a bob haircut in a blue superhero suit. All characters are smiling and appear playful.

The series, which was created and Executive Produced by Karissa Valencia (Chumash), features historic Native American representation in animation in front of and behind the camera and received the official blessings of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians to include Cowlitz and Chumash stories, characters and their traditional languages in the series.

Animated scene with a large, intricately decorated animal head, resembling a traditional indigenous mask, floating on water, with colorful trees and foliage in the background. Four small animated animal characters are riding on top of the animal head, overlooking the scene.

Joey received Emmy and Peabody Award nominations for his work on Spirit Rangers. The episode featuring two stories that Joey wrote, "Hoop Dance Off,"  about hoop dancing culture and "Broken Tree-tys,” about the importance of governments honoring their treaties with tribes, are among his favorites stories of the Spirit Ranger series. Stream all three seasons of Spirit Rangers only on Netflix.

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