This article discusses the series finale of Reservation Dogs.
In the series finale of FX’s Reservation Dogs, a teenager visits her aunt in prison. Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) buys an armful of snacks for Hokti (Lily Gladstone) and delivers the sad news that the medicine man she’s been shadowing, Fixico (Richard Ray Whitman), has died. Using a bag of Flamin’ Flamers chips as a visual aid, Hokti consoles her by pointing out that Fixico isn’t exactly gone. She places a chip on each of the other snacks to represent what he taught each person he knew and notes that those people will, in turn, share his knowledge with others. “It’s how community works,” Hokti says. “It’s sprawling. It spreads. What do you think they came for when they tried to get rid…