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Autor podejmuje temat kina mniejszości realizowanego przez artystów wywodzących się z kręgu „native Americans”. Jak zauważa Pitrus, niemal do końca lat 90. XX wieku Indianie byli grupą, której ekranowy obraz był zafałszowany i oparty na stereotypie, zaś ten wywodził się m.in. z klasycznych westernów. Zmianę perspektywy filmowego spojrzenia na mniejszość indiańską przynosi twórczość Chrisa Eyre’a, którego film Sygnały dymne (Smoke Signals, 1998) był pierwszą produkcją fabularną zrealizowaną w całości z udziałem indiańskiej ekipy. Ogromny sukces tego filmu (mierzony licznymi nagrodami i kilkumilionowymi zyskami) przyczynił się do tym silniejszego zaakcentowania kwestii tożsamości Indian. Reżyser przedstawił bowiem swoich bohaterów jako postaci z krwi i kości, a nie jako „figury” definiowane przez etniczne uwarunkowania. Kwestia tożsamości jednostkowej postawiona tu została na pierwszym planie. Pitrus przywołuje również film Czerwoni (Skins, 2002), w którym Eyre w podobny sposób rozkłada akcenty i buduje nowy obraz indiańskiej mniejszości. Autor tekstu podkreśla również, że dwa pierwsze filmy Chrisa Eyre’a przyczyniły się do wygenerowania zainteresowania publiczności tematyką indiańską i zachęciły ją do innego, mniej stereotypowego spojrzenia na tę mniejszość.

Smoke Signalsis a historical milestone in Native American filmmaking. Released in 1998 and based on a short-story collection by Sherman Alexie, it was the first wide-release feature film written, directed, coproduced, and acted by Native Americans. The most popular Native American film of all time,Smoke Signalsis also an innovative work of cinematic storytelling that demands sustained critical attention in its own right. Embedded inSmoke Signals's universal story of familial loss and renewal are uniquely Indigenous perspectives about political sovereignty, Hollywood's long history of misrepresentation, and the rise of Indigenous cinema across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Joanna Hearne's work foregrounds the voices of the filmmakers and performers-in interviews with Alexie and director Chris Eyre, among others-to explore the film's audiovisual and narrative strategies for speaking to multiple audiences. In particular, Hearne examines the filmmakers' appropriation of mainstream American popular culture forms to tell a Native story. Focusing in turn on the production and reception of the film and issues of performance, authenticity, social justice, and environmental history within the film's text and context, this in-depth introduction and analysis expands our understanding and deepens our enjoyment of a Native cinema landmark.

Because Smoke Signals received a strong marketing push and a great deal of media attention upon its release, many interviews with Eyre and Alexie, along with lead actors Adam Beach, Evan Adams and Irene Bedard, are available online in newspaper archives and other sources. Because at the time I knew there was nothing else to shoot except his scenes with the wig, and I knew that we weren't going to take a day at a cost of $75,000 and not shoot, and I knew that in order to get a wig, a new wig, it would take two days. [...]the reason we didn't shoot on the Spokane Res was because that they wouldn't let us, the Council voted not to let us do it... let's just call it tribal stuff. Yeah, they'll remember that, they won't go back to the novel.

In Indigenous North American film Native Americans tell their own stories and thereby challenge a range of political and historical contradictions, including egregious misrepresentations by Hollywood. Although Indians in film have long been studied, especially as characters in Hollywood westerns, Indian film itself has received relatively little scholarly attention. In Imagic Moments Lee Schweninger offers a much-needed corrective, examining films in which the major inspiration, the source material, and the acting are essentially Native. Schweninger looks at a selection of mostly narrative fiction films from the United States and Canada and places them in historical and generic contexts. Exploring films such as Powwow Highway, Smoke Signals, and Skins, he argues that in and of themselves these films constitute and in fact emphatically demonstrate forms of resistance and stories of survival as they talk back to Hollywood. Self-representation itself can be seen as a valid form of resistance and as an aspect of a cinema of sovereignty in which the Indigenous peoples represented are the same people who engage in the filming and who control the camera. Despite their low budgets and often nonprofessional acting, Indigenous films succeed in being all the more engaging in their own right and are indicative of the complexity, vibrancy, and survival of myriad contemporary Native cultures.

According to Kirsten Knopf in her study Decolonizing the Lens of Power, these indigenous films \"cannot undo constructed clichés, but they can offer autonomous images that subvert ... colonialist presentations\" (358). The difference, of course, is that the filmmaker has intentionally fused or confused the two genres. Because of the multi-faceted baggage associated with over one hundred years of Hollywood's and anthropologists' depictions of American Indians, however, any filmic representation of Indians necessarily and immediately constitutes a heteroglot. [...]the viewer enjoys acting performances by Wes Studi (Cherokee) who plays John Ridge, Wesley French (Anishinabek) who plays young Ridge, Carla-Rae Holland (Seneca/ Mohawk) who plays Suzanna Ridge, as well as Benjamin Bratt (Qechua) who narrates. First the viewer hears the actual voice of President Clinton, recorded from an actual 1999 visit to Pine Ridge: We're not coming from Washington to tell you exactly what to do and how to do it, we're coming from Washington to ask you what you want to do and tell you we will give you the tools and the support to get done what you want to do for your children and their future.

Smoke Signals director Chris Eyre talks about the challenges of being a First Nations filmmaker and his new film Edge of America, the story of a black teacher who takes a job on a reserve only to discover race relations aren't always black and white

For some tribal communities, film footage and photographs taken by outsiders have at times signified cultural appropriation in service of salvage ethnography and Western frontier dramas, indexing the unequal relations of power during production, circulation, and reception. Here, Hearne examines Victor Masayesva's Imagining Indians which engages pedagogical functions, reconstructing indigenous cultural identities in part by re-deploying tribal oral narratives, and in part through the post-colonial strategy of \"inappropriate appropriation\" of Western popular images of Indians, and Chris Eyre's Smoke Signals engages with the history of Indian representations in the Western through sound bridges, the figure of John Wayne, and allusions to film and television Westerns.

\"It was very mucky and boggy and so I slipped over in the mud and let the dog off the lead. She got into the marquee and was chewing on someone's cake.\" Beverly Price, manager of Dogs Trust Bridgend, said: \"[Chris Eyre] is an absolute inspiration who has worked tirelessly for Dogs Trust over the past 20 years. \"I would like to say a huge thank-you from all at Dogs Trust to Chris for his dedication and hard work.\"

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  [Chris Eyre] got his start under Robert Redford and his Sundance Institute Directors Lab. Redford says Eyre's \"influence on a new generation of storytellers will be significant.\" TriCore employee Melissa Martinez inserted a needle in her left arm \"with such force and misdirection so as to damage the vein, and cause injury to the surrounding nerves, tissues and tendons,\" the complaint says. \"The area developed a large hematoma, which lasted for a period of several weeks,\" it says. \"Although [[Kate Holmes]] has sought and received medical care, the arm remains painful.\" TriCore's managing director did not return a call seeking comment.