Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Movie Review The movie was made to show how the Indians in the United States were treated so unfairly by the United States government. The Indians were the first on this land but the settlers were determined that they had more right to the land than the Indians did. The Story is of Charles Eastman who is half Sioux Indian and was taken from his tribe, by his father, at a young age to be Americanized in public schools. He went on to learn and to be very well educated and became a doctor. For a while he worked for the government trying to help with Indian right, and settlement separation.
1 Reel Injun This documentary Reel Injun directed by Neil Diamond showed how Hollywood viewed Indians in their movies. As he traveled across the country he spoke with Indian filmmakers, actors, and writers. The documentary exposed Hollywood’s false portrayal of Indians over the past century and how Indians are striving to change this. In their movies Indians were seen as spiritual, noble, free, and also as supreme horsemen when in fact most could not even ride. In the 1930’s Indians were transformed into brutal savages by movies like Stage Coach.
What does it mean to be an Indian man? Lastly, what does it mena to live on an Indian Reservation?” • Protagonists in his work show a constant struggle with themselves and their own powerlessness among white American society. • Influences: evoke sadness, while using humor and pop culture • Film: Created the first all-Indian movie “Smoke Signals” and based the screen play off two of his short stories. This movie took top honors at the Sundance Film Festival • Awards: ’92 National Endowment of the Arts Poetry Fellowship • ’93 PEN/Hemingway award • ’94 Lila Wallace-Readers digest writers
Amanda Jennings Hancock English 111-001 12 March 2012 Spiderman as an Outlaw Hero In Robert B. Ray’s essay, “The Thematic Paradigm,” he writes about American cinema and dichotomies within movie and film. Ray explains and compares the difference between outlaw and official heroes. Ray writes about how an official hero falls in the category of “good good boys” and how they embody the best attributes of adulthood (379). Traits of an official hero include, sound reasoning and judgment, wisdom and sympathy based on experience. Various examples of an official hero include Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.
A Drug Called Tradition Analysis Throughout the short story “A Drug Called Tradition,” Sherman Alexie uses the drug-induced visions of young Native Americans to symbolize the difficulties that many young indians face in finding their place in a modern world. By first using humor to describe the “second-largest party in reservation history” (Alexie 1), Alexie seems to be lightly mocking the current state of affairs amongst Native Americans by suggesting the alcohol is the strongest bond that Indians share on the reservation. After Victor, Junior, and Thomas Builds-the-Fire slip away to consume a “new drug” (Alexie 1), Alexie uses their visions of themselves and each other to portray what each of them feels constitutes a “real” Indian. Alexie seems to be pointing out how unrealistic or irrelevant Native American’s perceptions of themselves may be in a modern world, later suggesting a different and much simpler measure of a “real” indian. After the boys take the drug and their hallucinations begin, Thomas tells the story of his first vision, in which Victor is attempting to steal a horse.
In a research conducted by Liu & Zhang on the representation of Native Americans in pop culture, “the film Dances with Wolves; the radio and TV Western, The Lone Ranger; and the novel, by Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, are just a handful of TV shows ad movies that present negative or romanticized images of American Indians, either nasty or cruel, or subservient and short, but all disappearing.” For instance, the fabricated Indian images on TV and in the Hollywood films influence the identity formation of individual Native
The negative portrayals of earlier films on Aboriginals did not only have a great effect on how the world views them today, but it has also contributed to the continuing struggles of First Nations for individual rights. The world has a variety of interpretations and misinterpretations of the First Nations people, but the one that is stuck to everyone’s mind are probably the portrayals of First Nations in the earlier films. The early film’s portrayals of aboriginals were mostly offensive, inaccurate, and stereotypical-they were not pleasant. In the 1930s, Native people were portrayed as savages. One example is John Ford’s movie Stagecoach which shows a number of Indian type violence, heavy drinkers to being prostitutes to
Mascot Controversy Over the years the Native American mascot debate is one that has gotten major press. Native Americans are very angry and want to be heard. The tribal names that these natives go by, are something that they hold very dear to their hearts. School boards, and sports teams around the country have used these mascots, and names to define who the team, and or school is. Now many people see using Native American names for mascots to be racists, and in some ways it can be.
Native Americans Notes Wars– WW1 * During World War One the Natives were fighting with the Whites against the Germans. This meant that they were able to integrate although many people would have had preconceived ideas about one another from their ancestors * The Natives, about 10,000, who fought in the war received recognition by the government for bravery * Families were also sponsored to live outside the reservations to work on the war effort. This led the White man to believe that the Natives had become more civilised. * Indian Citizenship Act – 1924 result of the war Wars– WW2 * 75,000 worked in defence industry * 25,000 were in the armed forces * Some resistance from Iroquois tribe (about being drafted in to fight
As the new settlers sought to take over the land, long periods of wars, forced displacement, massacres, imposition of treaties, and imposed hardships. As their lands were taken away from them, those that did survive the wars, hunger, and displacement were sent to reservations, which constituted only 4% of the U.S. territory. The natives were subjected to forced education systems to reeducate them in the white settler values, culture, and economy. Down to this day, the Native Americans are among the most harshly affected by racism and over 300 reservations are affected by environmental hazards. Even though the government has granted formal racial equality, Native Americans remain some of the most economically disadvantaged in the