In a recent newscast, ICT (formerly Indian Country Today) interviewed 海角社区 Associate Professor Eric Buffalohead about persistent stereotypes of Native Americans in film. Buffalohead chairs the Department of American Indian, First Nations, and Indigenous Studies and is the co-editor, with Professor Elise Marubbio, of the book 鈥�.鈥�
鈥淚鈥檝e been teaching 鈥淎merican Indian in the Cinema鈥� for going on 30 years, and people have asked me, what鈥檚 the solution to some of these problems?鈥� said Buffalohead. 鈥淎nd it鈥檚 contemporary representations. The big theme that you walk away from my course with is that most of our images are stuck in time, meaning that they鈥檙e somewhere in the past. People don鈥檛 see us as contemporary鈥攖hey see us as these images in the old West and very much stereotypes of plains or southwest Indians. They don鈥檛 see the real diversity of Indigenous people in the Americas.鈥�
The conversation with anchor Aliyah Chavez also touched on expanding representations in television through shows like 鈥淩utherford Falls鈥� and 鈥淩eservation Dogs,鈥� translation of major films into the Navajo and Comanche languages, and Professor Marubbio鈥檚 work on representations of Native women in film. Find the full interview in the ICT newscast archive (segment begins at 6:15).
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