By Peter C. Rollins
All too usually Hollywood portrays local american citizens both as bloodthirsty savages, ever able to scalp the blameless and natural, or as noble shamans, flippantly sharing their accrued knowledge with the white guy. hardly has the Indian's personal view of himself or his tradition been represented in motion pictures or different visible media.This choice of essays deals either in-depth analyses of particular motion pictures and overviews of Hollywood's depiction of local americans from the times of silent motion pictures to Disney's Pocahontas. jointly, the writers discover the various ways that the differing portrayals -- detrimental, sympathetic, or lifelike -- have mirrored higher alterations in American society and their influence on our collective cultural existence.
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Adapted from a novel by Theodore V. Olsen describing the massacre of a defenseless village of Cheyenne Indians by forces under the command of Colonel Chivington in 1864. The movie successfully engenders the anti-Vietnam sentiment of that era. Son of the Morning Star. 1991. ABC-Tv. Directed by Mike Robe. A made-for-TV drama based on the fictionalized historical study Son of Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn, by Evan S. Connell. The series attempts to paint a factual, first-hand account of the life of George Armstrong Custer but fails because of its own storytelling and mythmaking.
The movie successfully engenders the anti-Vietnam sentiment of that era. Son of the Morning Star. 1991. ABC-Tv. Directed by Mike Robe. A made-for-TV drama based on the fictionalized historical study Son of Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn, by Evan S. Connell. The series attempts to paint a factual, first-hand account of the life of George Armstrong Custer but fails because of its own storytelling and mythmaking. 26/ Ted Jojola Star Trek: The Next Generation. " 1994. NBC-TV In this New Agey episode, a space cadet is mentored by a tribal shaman, played by Native actor Tom Jackson.
1940) and Mel Brooks's BlaZing Saddles (1974). 1. Two children of Nature, Esther LeBarr and White Parker, in The Daughter oj Dawll (1912). Courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society. taries and docudramas, especially those made for television, have taken strides toward presenting the Indians more on their own terms, but by and large the Hollywood product continues to present the white man's Indian. The serious scholarship of historians, anthropologists, and other professionals should have helped to dispel the assumptions that tainted the popular concepts of Native Americans.