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- Native American representation in film and TV used to be confined to Westerns and storylines of defeat. Today, a new wave of Native American comedies, written and created by Native peoples, are taking back their narratives. Shows like Reservation Dogs and Rutherford Falls challenge stereotypes and address big political movements like #LandBack.
Join our special guests, Rutherford Falls writer, Taietsarón:sere ‘Tai’ Leclaire, and associate professor and author of “Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960s”, Liza Black, to trace the history of Native American representation and tell us how Hollywood has progressed from grotesque stereotypes to nuanced characters.
Resources:
KQED. Land Back: The Indigenous Fight to Reclaim Stolen Lands
www.kqed.org/education/535779...
University of Nebraska Press. 2020. Picturing Indians; Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960.
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/neb...
IllumiNative. A nonprofit initiative created to increase visibility of Native Nations.
illuminatives.org/
Reclaiming Native Truth. A project to dispel American myth and misconceptions.
rnt.firstnations.org/
Native Land Digital. Learn about the Indigenous history of the land you live on.
native-land.ca/
Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian. Frequently Asked Questions about American Indians.
americanindian.si.edu/nk360/f...
Credits:
Director: Dolly Li
Producer: Tien Nguyen
Consulting Producer: Danielle Bainbridge
Associate Producer: Mia Faske
On-camera appearances by: Liza Black, Taietsarón:sere ‘Tai’ Leclaire
Written by: Dolly Li and Tien Nguyen
Voiceover by: Kiana Taylor
Director of Photography: Brian Inocencio
Online Editor & Motion Graphics: Travis Hatfield
Assistant Editor: Josaen Ronquillo
Additional Motion Graphics: Jonathan Gil
Research Assistant: Kiana Taylor
Makeup Artist: Dawn Coleman
Set Designer: Tori Laxalt
Fact Checker: Yvonne McGreevy
Post-production services & facilities provided by: Flash Cuts
Executive Producer for Flash Cuts: Eurie Chung
Executive Producers for CAAM: Stephen Gong, Donald Young
Supervising Producer for CAAM: Sapana Sakya
Coordinating Producer for CAAM: Czarina Garcia
Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez
Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing
Special Thanks: Illuminatives
This program is a production of Plum Studios and the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).
Let’s not forget the native fam below the US too, I see we’re left out of these convos bc our ppls are split by language and a colonial border. We got bad rep from “Emperors New Groove” and “Road to El Dorado”. Yalitza Aparicio’s debut is a win too.✨
yes omg i remember all of the excitement when she initially gained fame ! she deserves it
Thank you for this.
Most Latin American Natives find Emperors New Groove and Road To El Dorado as great films that represent our history with a fictional-comedic lens. Those two are my favorites animated film and let's mention "Spirit and the Cimarron Stalion" a film that I consider better than any Native Representation in animation; too bad Dreamworks made dumb sequels to that film.
Talk about it!!!!!!!!!!!! I agree
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I love this. Back in the 90s, Nickelodeon, WB and UPN had tons of Black shows. It was a great experience to feel represented, as short as it was. I'm glad other cultures are finally getting their due.
Yea the ones that were here first
Thank you, yes I am glad more representations of everyone is beginning to appear
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I'm here for this. The Natvie American eraser in history, pop culture, literature, media and music from the prospective of actual Natvie Americans has to end,
do you mean...erasure?
@@teddie552 go off sis 🤷🏾♂️
Agreed
@@teddie552people generally pretend their history is erased because they expect someone else to do maintenance (nobody reads books, which are more creative with smaller production values and thus creative control). Or revise it to treat the land as a utopia before the white fire nation attacked lol. I’m usually out when I hear insecure people monologue about representation as well, as I know they don’t even try to look for stuff made by their people.
Totally agree with you!!!
im not Native American but I FULLY support #LandBack
good luck with that... you wont get shit from me or mine
Me too. I'm as white as they come. I think that my ancestors have failed the planet and the land. It's time to give it back to those who cared for it before and kept Earth in balance.
@@edwinacaparelli9911 agreed we were supposed to live in balance with nature not just run through it
Also, a “change in upper management” if you will, won’t have a huge impact on the day to day life of non-natives while improving the lives of natives in the long term and making things more equitable. Plus there will be more efforts to protect and improve environments because that’s more valued in indigenous cultures, which would be a net benefit for everyone
@@edwinacaparelli9911 kinda pissed off by this kind of talk bc it might be true but also implies that land should be given back to indigenous ppl so they can do our work better, instead of like. because it’s fucking theirs?
Ftr im not indigenous either, or even American, just from a historically colonized country, and have heard some native critiques abt land acknowledgments that use that kind of language - positioning natives as servants, essentially. giving them the shit work and absolving ourselves. (Tho in an acknowledgment it’s obviously kind of the opposite - thanks for keeping it all good for us :) VS here, take it, fix it for us, make it good again :) )
Northern Exposure was literally the first TV show I'd ever seen with Native actors playing Native characters who were well-rounded, multi-faceted, three-dimensional people rather than just stereotypes or caricatures. Reservation Dogs is amazing. I look forward to checking out Rutherford Falls.
God Rez dogs is so good
“Unfortunate genocide” and the look of horrified panic took me out. Keep up the good work 🤣🤣🤣
When I was growing up, we did learn about the uglier side of the history between indigenous Americans and European colonizers, I think we should have learned about more of it tho, and it stopped with the Trail of Tears. I remember feeling angry learning about how we made deals and treaties with the tribes that WE then violated or manipulated over and over. I honestly never really thought about Native Americans as like a current, living people because they kind of got taught to me like they were a part of history, not our present or our future. I wish we had learned about the Alcatraz takeover and land back movement.
Trail of Tears is only the tip of the tip of the iceberg
@@incoherentlogic228 yeah I know
I had a similar experience to yours in school. I’m fine with Landback. It’s a necessary step forward for these people to heal and live better lives.
The most prominent First Nations people I grew up with were Chief Dan George, Pat John, and Buffy Ste. Marie, then came Tom Jackson, Tina Keeper, Graham Greene, Adam Beach, Susan Aglukark, and many more. For almost all of my 57 years, I have been a supporter of the First Nations peoples and I would be very interested in seeing much greater representation in Canadian culture.
8:30 - One thing about the "not having the subtitles" that annoys me in any movie that uses "not the main language of the movie" for sections is when the closed captioning says just "speaking other language" or similar. Give us the closed captioning *OF THE OTHER LANGUAGE*.
THIS!!!! The most notable example of this for me recently was in the new Westside Story. I am a Spanish speaker but have auditory processing issues. This 'full immersion' leaves out those that are deaf, hard of hearing, and those that have auditory processing issues. Thanks for mentioning this!
@@meganpeitzcobarescobar8137 💯 Exactly!
What didn't you get?in this case, as with all other examples probably,in was done with an intention,all of those who don't speak mohawk aren't supposed to understand, you're supposed to feel left out and worried. The writer of the show is explaining precisely that 🙄
@@claudiavsanchez2543 I'm advocating for captions in whichever language is being spoken on screen. In this instance, those that communicate in/understand Mohawk yet are hard of hearing, deaf, or have auditory processing issues would understand.
@@meganpeitzcobarescobar8137 yeah I suppose that one is tricky. But maybe it would be enough to include all speaking parts in the subtitles available for deaf or hard of hearing people, wouldn't it?
I stand with the Native American tribes. Give back their land. I love the culture and want more representation.
I use to think this way until I did some research which showed natives bargained away their land and also went to war to steal land from eachother, and also many didn't believe anyone had the right to own land since that belonged to the earth, not people. There's so much controversy in this topic... I don't think they're looking for justice, they're looking for power. They've lost their heritage and are just thinking like a greedy bank pig... looking for victims.
okay sign your land over to the natives then. give it away for free. move. do something instead of type comments and virtue signal.
You do understand that you are standing on their land right now, right? The whole of Turtle Island was their Land. Everything from the Arctic glaciers to the canal in Panama. So where do all the Americans go that are not Native? People that were born here, but that are not Native enough to 'belong'? We are talking millions of people. And which Treaties are the ones that are the one that should be enforced? There were Wars fought and warriors died on all sides, and when you lose a war, you lose territory. If Natives are actually dual-citizens between their sovereign lands and America, then those places need their own representation in the Senate and House in both State and Federal. And they need representation in something like the U.N. because when they disagree between themselves and the Federal, the bias is definitely for the majority and not the tribes.
@@mboaz4730mf talking about turtle island lol
I'm not leaving Oklahoma
Cool, I love reservation dogs. I hadn't heard of Rutherford falls but I'm going to figure out how to watch that
It’s on peacock.
This looks super cool and educational. I don't know much about native American culture and will definitely check these out!
As an city native artist with a very revolutionary upbringing, I struggled for some time because I was always encouraged to make very indigenous artwork. I think it's a beautiful thing for indigenous people to make indigenous artwork, but I think my art will speak for itself. My artwork is inherently indigenous because I'm the one who's making it. Also, #LandBack
Please keep going and make great art!
Reservation Dogs is great & I look forward to watching Rutherford Falls ✊🏼💖
Please, if you’re native and a director or a creative, let us see your perspective. More of this please
We need Land Back, we need Native management of Native Land, we don't have to perpetuate the genocides we've been committing. To people who are concerned "oh what if something goes wrong"... something is ALREADY going wrong. We have teenagers suing IN COURT that we've destroyed their water, their air, and their planet. So much for preserving it for seven generations to come - your own children are suing you.
I love your series. Your brilliant. I am a white Canadian and am also a mother to a mix race child. I find your series so informative and valuable in rewiring my thinking and learning to understand the biased I've developed over my lifetime and how to confront them and change them. ❤️
I LOVE Rez Dogs!! What an awesome show. Also Mohawk Girls on APTN.
This is a great series! I just have to throw in a rec for Patrick is a Navajo's channel. Some of the most hilarious and heartwarming stuff I've seen on YT, plus he's an amazing dancer! 💜✊
I'm from the caribbean and if you ask our parents generation about what movies and shows made their childhood, It would be westerns. I remember growing up watching Mclintok with my family reciting every word and whenever it shows on tv we would all yell it's on to watch it. Growing up and realizing the history of native Americans, what they've been through and how they fought hard for their land and respect made me change my views on westerns ( and of course my view on john wayne has completely change also). History like this needs to be taught so that the new upcoming generation needs to understand that these events were wrong and we shouldn't glamorize westerns and western concepts in television and movies
Caribeños have a complicated history with native identity too, as we’re more ethnically mixed than in the states and Canada, and out cultures have a lot more influence from west African cultures and ancestry. To varying degrees depending on the island. The Spanish speaking islands have the “three races” identity and are generally lighter than many from say, Haiti or Jamaica or Trinidad. The whole idea of race functions differently than in the US too. And we all have a loose relation with each other and common cultural practices as caribeños, regardless of language, because of the shared region and distant native ancestry
I’ve noticed there’s been a resurgence in native identity and culture in the Caribbean, but it’s a very different conversation than what’s happening in the states due to the above factors.
@@Joyride37bro you didn't even mention the original people of the caribe the Tainos and the Arawak indigenous smh
I'm glad you're talking about this. The 21st century was the beginning of having accurate native voices in media. The first one was Smoke Signals.
I wanted to help California natives that when florida natives were getting their landback, I used my cash to go over there to see if i could get tips. By the time i got there, Arnold schwarzenegger put laws to prevent California natives to buy landback.
Reservation Dogs is a good show.
I think natives need to be front and center. In case you guys haven't figure it out about me that I'm for land acknowledge being doing before the national anthem.
One issue in this video is, what other media does, is ignore indigenous people south of the U.S. border as though we don't exist.
Also, claiming that Spanish last names mean that these Indigenous people are NOT Americans. It's a eurocentric agenda that continues to erode the sovereignty of Indigenous identities and gaslighting them into saying that they're not really Native Americans.
Lmao one paragraph in and my head already hurts. You liberals are so cocky and arrogant, you think that you’re doing something different but you’re actually just engaged in basic emotional thinking. What the hell might you know about the history of “media?” Maybe I happen to think think that Herod’s, or Livy’s accounts that are thousands of years old are legitimate, too; or, for that matter, Aztec codices.
My point here is just to get you to think- stop smelling your own butthole, bro. It’s much better to be humbled by the world than to imagine that we’re at some peak, looking down on the past.
Terry's speech to that journalist is what I listen to when I need to get pumped for something important. I love new role models for myself and my children.
8 min in when he speaks his Native tongue and clowning them is the best. I gotta watch this show
This is awesome! I can’t wait to learn more, check out these shows, and support better policies.
I haven't been able to watch either of these shows, but the descriptions in the video made me think of the native people in Parks & Rec. I really liked their sense of humor
Yes!!! Can’t wait to see A LOT of indigenous representation 😍
As a Southeast Asian American, I love seeing other poc finally get to tell THEIR stories.
Love this new series, very educational! Thank you
Land treaties are broken in arguably all of Latin America as well...and can someone please explain to me how a region that is verifiably more indigenous is hardly ever discussed by Natives of Canada and the United States when discussing indigenous rights, history, and current social curcummstances. It was so disappointing that not 1 native group from North America ever showed indigenous solidarity with Central Americans or Mexicans at the border because those so called latinoes were primarily indians
@@josephmagliocca3628 I have a very broad definition of being native...true it is not all about genetics but genetic demonstrates your connection under no uncertain terms to the people's of what is now the americas. Technically anyone can adopt a culture. What floors me is that anyone accepts these blood quantum type standards to be native meanwhile someone mariah Carrie is black without any tribal card or affiliation
@@travelingva I agree that Indigenous Central / South Americans are definitely ignored & should not be. this is obviously because of colonization & the language barriers make this even more difficult. the mariah cary thing is tricky though, because she is half black, but some people still argue about her identity because she is mixed. "anyone accepts these blood quantum type standards" isn't exactly true because everyone looks at others differently & some ppl may not see someone as native, while another person does :)
@@shaina8947 thats my whole point. If I'm a mixed native than I'm black or white but if I'm mixed black then I'm black...
@@travelingva That may have it's roots back in the bad days of the Jim Crow south when if it was known that you had "one drop of negro blood," then you were black, meaning you were segregated, paid lower wages, harassed, and even killed. Since then because society has grown, the community and culture have flipped the meaning to be "I'm black and I'm proud."
I love reservation dogs!!!! I laughed cried and learned some real s*** It’s a beautiful show and I can’t wait for season 2
These shows are awesome!!! I hope more shows and movies come out with these actors and actresses from these shows! Especially the guy who play’s Terry in Rutherford Falls! He is awesome and hilarious!!! My favorite character from that show!
super cool! love watching these videos, learning, and adding to my watch list!
Happy to see more media from Native Americans
Hey, this here is an eye opener, because I’m the first generation of our family to be born in this country called The United States of America and I bit the Apple pretty hard. The Aztec people had a similar experience with the Spanish. I’m sure lots of others Native peoples of land forcefully taken from them would simply just like them back but the truth, it’s not not so simple because a correction one way could cause a new problem elsewhere and in correcting that new problem would cause another problem, and so on. The best thing humans can do is move forward and like the Seven Generation thing says, live like 7 generations of people will come after you and teach as if this a guaranty.
So excited to learn about Rutherford falls definitely going to try and watch that!
at 7:54 you have someone who speaks the Mohawk language, yet at 7:57, your Closed Captioning literally just says "(speaking in Mohawk)". why on god's green earth did you not ask the dude to translate that for the Closed Captioning? That is not accessibility, that is cutting off deaf and HOH people (and those of us who hoped for a translation in the CC) from getting the entire message.
He explained why it was not translated. It's not meant to be translated for people who aren't Haudenosaunee. It's ours even other native tribes such as myself don't understand what he's saying but we get the jist of it.
i feel like we forget that mexican natives are also native americans.
Thank you for this! I’m from a central European country and have grown up on Vinettou and Karl May stories, so I’m looking forward to watching these shows and get a more realistic portrayal of Native Americans.
The Seven Generations reminds me of Sankofa in African/Pan-African traditions. I loved this video! Very informative!
Seven Generations is such an alien idea to a world where every politician only worries about the next elections a every CEO focuses on the current trimester profits.
Thank you for teaching me this simple and powerful concept.
It's so good to see my people in media. I cried watching Rez Dogs before it even got sad. Dark Winds is neat too. And let's not forget stuff done by taika waititi too!
I can't figure out anything nuanced to put here. I'm just psyched we're acknowledging #landback, native-written and led shows, and just generally talking about all this.
Okay so your name is not written correctly in Latin (which has a case system where nouns are declined), which tells me that you don’t actually care about history and you just wanna simp for the bloodcults
@@perfectplayingplaids get lost, racist
Dont forget great UA-cam channels showing Native perspectives, too. It’s great to hear from people who didn’t have a platform for so long.
Hey PBS, I just watched your special on What Dirty Dancing Has to Do With Abortion, it was posted about 90 minutes ago. Right away, I noticed that the comments were closed at 19, and I couldn't use the share button - it gave me an error. As soon as I finished watching it, the video disappeared and it was not in my history! I think someone reported the video and had it taken down. I hope y'all can get it back up!! 🙏
Thank you for posting thos video. I hope there will be exposure about the terrible crimes of missing young females between 16yrs to mid 20s in age.
This resonates with me. Growing up, I always wondered why the few shows or movies I saw with Native characters always had them stereotyped. I knew something was wrong. Two representations in media that were the first instances of seeing a glimpse of Native spirit for me were the anti-littering PSA with the Indian who has a tear coming down his cheek when he sees what we have done to the sacred land and the movie Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman. Although it turned out that the actor in the commercial was not native, he was still respected for this piece. The movie on the other hand, using Hoffman's character as a foil, I thought showed the beauty and value of the Sioux culture, giving us the perspective from their experience, not settlers or calvary. It also showed what the people lost when their families and way of life were destroyed. I still cry.
In the city where I live, I haven't seen the "land back" tag, but that is something I can get behind. I know here in California some land in the NW redwoods area has been given back. I can't remember the details right now, but I was thinking, it's a start.
This is an awesome YT show, relevant, well produced, great people! Thank you, PBS💜✌️😎
This is awesome
Dark winds was a great show to watch and the movie prey was the most badass film I've watched all year. I hear the writers are trying to do when they don't put in subtitles but I'd still like the option going forward. Prey specifically could have had subtitles if the whole film was in Comanche like it was originally intended.
Thank you native Americans for your hospitality. I felt your pain as well
Cardinal Tantoo, Graham Greene, Jay Silverheels and Buffy Ste. Marie are the people I grew up with. Every one were fantastic. Buckley Petawabano of Adventures in Rainbow Country went on to create totally native shows.
Apparently I missed this upload, really want to try and find a way to watch Rutherford Falls now though
I always wanted to hear the Natives America culture, movies, comedies etc. ❤️ this. I want to see more of everything I want them to be included in American culture .
Culture? Raping and torturing for PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT and cannibalism are their culture dear.
Reservation Dogs’ the BEST! Sooo funny!!!
I grew up on Rosebud Reservation from age 2 through age 12. I'm sorry this happened. I spent my first 2 years of school at the Indian school in Mission, then was moved to a white farm school south of there. I didn't interact much with natives outside of church and sports, mainly because I was (and still am) painfully shy. We moved to Custer because my father couldn't keep the farm going.
My worst personal mistake was accepting the role of Sitting Bull in my high school presentation of Annie Get Your Gun, for which I apologize. I've been trying to learn how to be better, but I have so much more to learn.
I think including a small segment about buffalo long legs the native actor from the 20s would have been so cool
YES!!
As part Paiute, part Filipino and Hawaiian. I have a legitimate question for other natives to answer.
If We had our lands back, where would all the other enthnic groups that have 2nd 3rd and even 4th generations living our land go? Do we allow them our lands or kick them all out?
40% of our lands has other ehtnic groups living on them, what happens to them? Like California there's more minorities living there than any other state, do we kick them all out?
Where do we stand on other enthnic groups on our lands?
#landback
They become minority ethnic groups
Re: no subtitles--Shows get really boring and unrealistic without non-English speakers not speaking English. No one sees subtitles in real life and people that don't speak English are an integral part of America itself. I hope more Americans watch and absorb life in these dramas to see partly how it should be and is. [People that are not verbal need representation too.] These shows sound awesome.
Another film with natives with no subtitles is Deadman.
So much yes! I'm here for this!
This is why i subscribe
I so dig it
I want Rutherford Falls back
There were some Native actors who voiced some Native characters on "King of the Hill."
yes yes yes!!!
Turtle Island still my home.
this was amazing, please cover more native american topics. this is their land, there should be native american exposure, more culture, more restaurants, more tv shows, more movies, etc.
This is NOT their land. It is OUR land. They can be part of "our". But land is "yours" only if you can hold it. They could not, we could, did and do to this day. Period! End of story!!! Watch Exterminate all the Brutes by Raul Peck for background and context you obviously lack. You'll be surprised when you watch it. I guarantee.
I was watching that episode of Res. Dogs when it came out and I didn't like that they just cut off the cc altogether. People with hearing difficulties couldn't understand ANY of the joke at all. They did not put the Mohawk speech peppered with the english words on the cc, so you just did not get anything. And this writer guy is like, "Yeah, this is because it is a joke just for the folks that speak Mohawk." But those that could hear the english words that were being said and see the expressions on the Mayor's face kind of got the joke, too. But the hearing impaired just get shafted.
I forget the name of the cheif, and I can't really pronounce it, but I've been in and out of the hospital in kalowna, and I learned a bit about the sylix people from the museum and a statue, and anyways, the chief sounds like one hell of a good guy during I think the 60s/70s
Watch Dark Winds too!
Yo, loving the fact that PBS is gigabased. Much love from a Cherokee!
Hi from Louis Whetzel Flac Wave. Just want to pass along his regards.
Native ppl south of the border need to stop being excluded from the narrative. Don’t let colonial borders separate and divide . Especially since the majority of native ppl are south of the us
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Good that they have some scales, platforms, levels, skillets, rankings, ratings, upgrades, and updates yeah
Fantastic! Thanks for creating this. Decolonize everything
It means what it sounds like... We want our land back.
Everywhere I look I see what's been taken from us, And it breaks my heart every single day.
you already live free in this land
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356You are on our land. & we were free before colonization.
@@NativeTexMexican i was born in this country and have lived here all my 20 years of life. im just as american as you
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 Well... My people have been here for over 100 generations. Literally, Thousands of years. *We are from here.* You were just born here.
@@NativeTexMexican yall came from Eurasia
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Mohawk is a beautiful language.
No love for Dance Me Outside or The Rez?
No I'm not gonna comment. Also. Great job.
Engagement for the engagement god!
Go, go go! You both Rock!!
This is the Soviet representation of Native Americans as seen in the popular film, "Chingachguk." Generally, this is how modern Slavic peoples see the Natives of North America. : ua-cam.com/video/YfS0_Q6NL80/v-deo.html
LOL we Mohawks are funny but kick ass too. Watch us take over.
What a colonial mindset. The irony. Grow up. The people born in north america are just as american as you.
Inuit!
We always get overheard - despite how many children of our kind who get down right taken away to be raped until death
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We got our land back - that's really nice - bur we would like to see our litter ones grow up without being raped to death.
It very much hurts to see it happen - please help stop that happening! For the sake of us all - please help stopping that very hurtful practice
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Please!
Might be good to learn English if you're going to type in it. Can't even tell wtf you're talking about.
Come and try to take my land
But I only see native mixed with white blood not those mixed with African Americans. Why?
Same.
Is it really that big of a deal? There’s no winning with representation. It never ends.
@@user-kn6dq8uw2p if the missteps aren't pointed out then those that have the power to push forward will believe there is no problem. So it is always important to note where there is neglect or failure.
Word. I only see mestizos. Native Americans are also racist.
@@toontrooper4103 but is it really a misstep ? Because a pbs program about Native Americans tropes in modern day cinema and tv has a Native American that LOOKS half European and now it’s not good enough ? What ? Lol
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The question that you are not supposed to ask native American community.
"Why do many representatives of Native American communities not look like Native Americans?"
The irony of this story is that in the early days of Hollywood films, most of Native American roles did not look like Native Americans as they were done by White actors.
But now as you see in this video ua-cam.com/video/dZ13TZk5eH4/v-deo.html
at least to my eyes, two guys in this look more White than Native American.
Assuming that they are so called mixed race, they look like they have more White DNA than Native American DNA. I guess it is Okay for people with less than half native blood to choose to identify themselves a Native American, but seeing not Native looking people leading Native American communities is a bit confusing for non Native American like me. And not only these two guys but also I have seen some other Native American communities were lead by not very Native looking people in some news media reports before. Definitely not having seen all the leaders of Native American communities, I may be very wrong about this. If so, please correct me with reasonable evidences.
Can someone please tell me why do people still call Native Americans Indians?
That's a great question, I myself am native and it's mostly natives that call themselves "Indian" due to hearing it their whole lives. There's this activist, John Trudell, and he said "Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible." And this is basically how we have been "rebranded" by many over hundreds of years. We call ourselves "Indian" because we were called it, and we call ourselves it because, to me at least, it feels like "taking back" a taunt used against us. We are the only race in America where we put "American" in front of race. So "American Indian" is different than "Indian American"
The only way America can recover from the last 400 years of incompetence and greed is to give the lands back to Native peoples. They were excellent land stewards for thousands of years. Natives respect and understand nature. I love Reservation Dogs and definitely want to watch Rutherford Falls.
ROFLMMAO!!! You are out of your mind woman. Aint no one "giving" anything back. Land is yours only if you can keep it. Extrapolate if you even know the word and understand the concept. If you don't, then ask Ukraine. Russia tried to make "indians" out of them, but unlike native Americans these Ukrainians can fight! They will keep their land. You folks could not And there is no way you have what it takes to take it back and we aint givn nutn to nobody. So GTFOH with that nonsense sandy!
No take backs
I wonder if things would be different under the crown if america lost the revolution
For who? For nat amers? LOl would've been FAR worse. We loved you guys and lived with you then you turned on us so we got down to business and the rest is history! Just ask Louis Whetzel for his take on it. Lol : )
@@CORPCHGO for the natives
Understood value the Earth
funny
When are we going to talk about Afro-indigenous & Asiatic Indigenous people?
We'll get there. We're talking about something else right now.
They matter, too. We need to move away from eurocentric perceptions of Native Peoples of the world as villains.
@@samwill7259 who tf asked YOU!?
@@Datastemaker ...you did. When you posted an open question on a public comment forum.
@@samwill7259 But your answer holds no weight because you're not in charge of production. Your response is irrelevant and worthless.
Keep holding your breath guys. Sure you’re gonna get at least Texas 😂
Every loser in these comments is a perpetual victim LMAO
@@NiceOneBroHAHA Let’s them run some self righteous narrative in their head and justify being a complete salty douche.
What happened to the old format and host? Could she maybe come back instead of the weird TV character that makes it really seem insincere? Great content aside from that.
Looks like the legacy of $5 Native and The Dawes Rolls lives on.