The Movie "Indian:" Alternative Pueblo Histories & New Representations

This talk explores the telling of alternative Pueblo Peoples' histories while imagining new indigenous representation in popular media. The last screening and conversation of the 2020-2021 Borderless Cultures Film Festival, The Movie "Indian:" Alternative Pueblo Histories & New Representations brought DR. BEVERLY SINGER, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies at UNM, and JOHN JOTA LEAÑOS, Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, in conversation with Borderless curators, EMMANUEL RAMOS BARAJAS, Unsettling Journeys producer, and ANNETTE RODRIGUEZ, Assistant Professor in American Studies UNC-Chapel Hill, to discuss Native Resistance, resilience and story telling as explored through Leaños’ 2014 short FRONTERA! REVOLT AND REBELLION ON THE RIO GRANDE and Singer’s 2021 documentary CONTEMPORARY PUEBLO WOMEN: JOURNEYS AND PATHWAYS and her 2017 short film THE BLANK STARE AT THE MOVIE "INDIAN."
The Borderless Cultures Online Filmfest is generously sponsored by the UNC Humanities for the Public Good Initiative and the Critical Ethnic Studies Collective.