Lingua franca in practice
A meeting between a Norwegian, a German and a Japanese engineer is likely to run in English, and none of them are native speakers. English is chosen because it is the language they share, not because it is anyone's own.
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English works as a : a shared language between people with different first languages. Most conversations in English worldwide involve no at all.
A shared second language is still a shared language.
Who is telling the story
A film about an Indigenous community made by that community shows the inside view. The same story told by an outsider selects differently and explains differently. Neither is automatically wrong, but the position of the maker is part of what you are reading.
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Cultural expressions are sources about the people who made them. Who tells the story, and from what position, changes what is shown and how.
Always ask who made it, and from where they are looking.
English works as a : a shared language between people who do not share a first language. That is why a Norwegian company can write its reports in English without anyone in it being a . Mandarin Chinese has more native speakers, but English is used more widely between speakers of different languages.
The English speaking world is not one culture. Ways of life, communication patterns and histories differ across countries and within them, and Indigenous peoples in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have their own languages and stories. When you use a song, a film or a podcast as a source, ask who made it and from what position.