As it can be seen the Native Americans had more negative reactions of the Europeans as the other way around. Because of the interaction between the two cultures, the world has
‘Those who have the greatest impact on history are remembered as much for their faults as their achievements’. To what extent does the study of your personality support this view? Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most revolutionary—and certainly most controversial—filmmakers of the early twentieth century. The lasting influence of her innovative filmmaking techniques on twentieth-century cinema is undisputed by filmmakers and scholars throughout history, but the exact nature of her work is surrounded by ongoing controversy. Riefenstahl’s production of the feature films Triumph of the Will and Olympia have left a lasting imprint on history; these films established Riefenstahl’s influential career as a film director under the years of the Nazi regime.
APUSH, Period 5 13 November 2013 Consanguinity (DBQ #2) The relationships and interactions between the Native Americans and the English were very complex and delicate. Often times they started out very friendly but over time they changed to very hostile and aggressive relations. The English wanted land and resources and the Natives wanted their land back. When these two forces met with a conflict there was almost always death and bloodshed. Due to the excessive amount of conflicts, it was inevitable not to have battles, peace agreements, and to this day Native Americans are not pleased with Caucasian people.
An established contemporary artist, Scholder has utilized several contemporary and surrealistic techniques to exhibit his observations of the modern American Indian. In order to properly analyze Mad Indian No. 3 one must understand the history of the Native American and his long battle against the stereotypes that is a constant road block in everyday life as he struggles to co-exist in his world and the western one. The stereotype the western world places on the Native American has been long ingrained into our minds since the first encounter with Native Americans. While it has changed since the beginning or discovery of Native Americans it hasn’t truly matured and progressed with the reality of the modern Native American.
Professor Johnson N. American Religious Traditions 13 September 2007 Native American Culture Throughout the history of America, Native Americans and their involvement in the expansion of the western hemisphere have been represented in widely contrasting lights. Most of the time these natives have been misrepresented as instigating much of the war and fighting that occurred between the Native American culture and the foreigners attempting to settle in the land. Lately this false image has been corrected through movies like Smoke Signals and accurate authors writing about Native American culture such as Sam Gill, Joel Martin, and Robert Berkhoffer. The movie Smoke Signals gives explicit examples of issues discussed in many of Sam Gill’s, Joel Martin’s, and Robert Berkhoffer’s literature concerning Native Americans such as the significance of storytelling in the Native American culture, stereotyping, and the Native American sense of self and identity. Gill explains that story telling plays a significant role in Native American culture by stressing ideas of moral standards and wise choices as well as romanticizing people and events to make their significance emotionally real, which is impossible for writing to attain.
This is similar to other artworks I have read in this course, that since the Spanish came, Indians have been regarded as inferior (Wallace, 2013). This book also brings up the fact that many white men had sexual relationships with native women and Indian men were with white women. Many of these relationships resulted in children that were half Indian and half white as Tayo was (Silko, 1977). Even though these children were half white they were still being discriminated against, many times more so and even from their own families. Being a “half-breed” would have been even more difficult than being a full blooded native, because of the discrimination from all sides.
The technological aspect of film changes the way the myth is distributed, but the core idea of the myth is the same. The basis of modern storytelling in both cinema and television lies deeply rooted in the mythological tradition. Many contemporary and technologically advanced movies often rely on ancient myths to construct narratives. The Disney Corporation is notorious among cultural study scholars for “reinventing” traditional childhood myths (Koven, “Folklore Studies and Popular Film and Television: A Necessary Critical Survey”, 176-195). While many films are not as obvious as Disney fairy tales in respect to the employment of myth, the plots of many films are largely based on the rough structure of the myth.
Racial injustice is a huge wrong of our judicial system in the past, and continues to be in some cases. A Lesson Before Dying portrays the problems of racial injustice, causing the audience to relate. Because A Lesson Before Dying is a movie with a setting from the 1940’s, an older audience would enjoy this movie. I would recommend it older people who can relate to hard times of the 40’s, portrayed in this film. I wouldn’t recommend A Lesson Before Dying to a younger audience due to the fact that they may not understand why this film has an impact on people, and would be negative towards it.
As citizens of the United States began to settle the lands west of the Mississippi River, they encountered a group with whom they had had much experience when settling the East Coast: the American Indians. Particularly early on, the generalized response by settlers was antagonistic and cruel, and although this did not disappear it gradually was joined by another class of settlers, the reformers. They sought to “civilize” the Native Americans and subjugate them to their power structure. In reality, the actions of the reformers, and of the Federal government which aided them in their efforts, did irreparable harm to the western Native American population and often treated them cruelly as well. This is not to say that many of the reformers did
The society and the law are very closely related to each other. The social world changes every second. These changes occur because of the contrasting views in the minds of the indigenous people. We cannot expect laws that were constituted a decade before to be applicable in the current scenario. Therefore changes in law bring out the positivity and brighter side of social change and shuns the negativity that is still incorporated in our societies, fulfilling the social needs of the people.