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Behind the Aegis

(53,831 posts)
Sat Dec 24, 2011, 02:40 AM Dec 2011

If you have Netflix, I recommend watching "Reel Injuns".

It is a documenatary on the portryal of Native Americans in the movies. It starts out really, really, slow. BUT, within 20 minutes, it picks up and is quite interesting and informative. It touches on stereotypes and how they eventually were challanged.

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If you have Netflix, I recommend watching "Reel Injuns". (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Dec 2011 OP
Sounds good, thanks for the rec. Broken_Hero Dec 2011 #1
The creator of "Smoke Signals" is in it. Behind the Aegis Dec 2011 #2
Native peoples around the world have been subjected to many of the same indignities Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2012 #4
Another good one is Rabbit Proof Fence Broken_Hero Jan 2012 #5
That movie shocked me. Neoma Dec 2011 #3

Broken_Hero

(59,305 posts)
1. Sounds good, thanks for the rec.
Sat Dec 24, 2011, 03:38 PM
Dec 2011

My wife still loves the holy hell out of Smoke Signals, and the Education of Little Tree. My personal favorite is actually a Maori based movie called Once Were Warriors, the movie is eerily similar to what I've encountered within Indian country.



Behind the Aegis

(53,831 posts)
2. The creator of "Smoke Signals" is in it.
Sat Dec 24, 2011, 10:16 PM
Dec 2011

There are also lots of clips from it and interviews with a few actors. They touch on Native life around the world toward the end. The focus is primarily the indiginous to North America. I am telling you though, those first 20 minutes...very slow, but it is worth the wait.

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)
4. Native peoples around the world have been subjected to many of the same indignities
Sat Jan 14, 2012, 02:04 AM
Jan 2012
Once Were Warriors was a powerful film and well worth seeing. When I saw it at a Portland Film Festival, the audience gasped with one voice when they realized what the oldest daughter was going to do after being raped.

Another one, again showing the effects of colonization on Native peoples, is the difficult-to-find Australian movie The Fringe Dwellers. It concerns an Aboriginal family living in a small town. At the time, I was dating an Australian, and I asked him if he felt that the racism of the white townspeople had been overplayed. His opinion was that people in that part of Australia (he had some idea where the film was taking place) were MORE racist than portrayed in the film.

Broken_Hero

(59,305 posts)
5. Another good one is Rabbit Proof Fence
Sat Jan 14, 2012, 05:50 AM
Jan 2012

its about aborigine sisters, and to boot, if memory serves its based on a true story.

Neoma

(10,039 posts)
3. That movie shocked me.
Mon Dec 26, 2011, 09:04 AM
Dec 2011

In retrospect, not surprising... but the red-faced white guys were just hilarious.

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