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Journal Article
Fact or fiction? border crossing in American Indian film
2010
Overview
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.
Publisher
Post Script, Inc
