Analysis Of The Film Reel Injun

In the 1800s, the American government was struggling to rise in the world as a new nation. The leaders were eventually very successful, but along the way they were ruthless to all whom stood in their path. One obstacle that the Americans handed particularly poorly was their treatment of the Native Americans who owned the land prior to the European colonization of the new world. By learning about the atrocities done to the tribes such as the Cherokee, Lakota, and Nez Perce, the human race may refrain from such cruelty in the future. The Cherokee are one of the best known tribes of Native Americans due to the horrendous acts done against them.

The Hollywood Indian is merely a character and a tool used by movie directors that has changed throughout the 1800s, and can be manipulated simply by the overshadowing effects of the white character’s identities and stories in these films, as well as by details such as the Indian characters’ speaking lines, appearance, and role within these films. They were perceived as a collective existence between 1825 through 1880, and were often always portrayed as Plains Indians, and therefore, a homogenized group, wearing stereotypical regalia, despite the differences that actually existed between each tribe, and were thus, ultimately robbed of their identity and their culture in order to enhance Hollywood plots. Native Americans first were introduced

Any survivors were forced to live in fear of others coming from Europe and killing them with manufactured weaponry. Though they once felt powerful as a group, they knew there could be many other much stronger civilizations further away to be fearful of. But there was one other factor that resulted in the Spaniards’’ victory over the Aztecs. “The natives could do little to stop the invisible warrior that marched alongside the Spaniards - disease. Measles, mumps, smallpox, and typhus were just some of the diseases Europeans were to bring with them to the Americas” (McDougal 556).

Announcers on TV regularly say out loud the word ‘red****ns’ as if it is nothing, when in fact, the word is every bit as toxic to us as n****r is to African Americans.” If this is the really the case, then why do we still use these offensive team mascots? In conclusion, the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, shows many cultural links to other Native American societies, and also shows some of the outcomes of post colonization. We see this through the modern Native American schooling, the alcoholism of Native Americans, and the offensive Native American sports mascots. It is important to understand the constant mistreatment of Native Americans and how much it can affect

Sitting Bull was considered a great leader and helped shape the way we treat Indians today. Throughout the 1800s the U.S. Government fought against many Indian tribes because of the rich land that promised gold. Sitting Bull and many others “set aside their differences in the face of intolerable abuse by the U.S. Government” (www.californiaindianeducation.org). Sitting Bull fought in wars and united with other tribes to protect his land. Since Sitting Bull worked to preserve his land he allied with the other tribes to fight against the government.

“Custer's Last Stand” was a victory for the Indian people, but as a result of their win, they brought a lot of attention to themselves which angered the American people. As a result, the US government treated the Native Americans more hostile, allowing John Gibbons to go and attack the Nez Perce Indians, didn’t follow through with their agreements dealing with land and took land away, and kept expanding westward while continuing to grow America East to West. Directly after new got out that the Indians had not only won the battle, but had slaughtered the American army, John Gibbons rounded up every available man and went after the Nez Perce Indians, whom he thought were the easiest and head of attack. Many innocent woman and children died on

The film ‘Babakiueria’ is different to other films in this genre because it is a more serious issue and it is comedic because it is a role reversal with the aboriginals being the invaders. It also shows how disrespectful and racist we have been and still are to aboriginals. BabaKiueria is a role reversal in which European Australians are the natives, the black colonisers find this white “Ghetto” and ask what it is called and the natives reply “Barbecue Area” and is mistaken for BabaKiueria and this is what they name the country, BabaKiuera. The presenter Duranga Manika spends time with a typical white family so that she help others understand white people more. When the family’s youngest daughter is taken away (as a reference to the stolen

One being that the Natives were actually there first. An example of their mistreatment would be the "Ghost Dance". This was a dancing ritual that promised the Indians a new world "free from whites", where they could truly be free. However, this innoccent dance was very wronly interpreted. The white men thought that it was a war threat.

Tone is a very powerful and moving tool for both Heller and Hemingway in their novels. In Catch-22, comedy through absurdity is the overwhelming tone. Heller uses the comedic tone to explain that “[w]ar is irrational”, and leave the reader with a “catharsis in which the grimness of war provides the dominant memory”. Heller does so by creating absurd situations that may begin as funny, however leave one with a “bitter pessimism” (Hasley). An example of this is the tale of Captain Half-Oat, whose family had been Native Americans who, whenever they settled, would happen to settle directly over an oil deposit and be evicted by oil companies.

The movie focuses on two main characters who contrast greatly. They both are represented as stereotypes of their respective races, Caucasian and African American. Peter Sanderson is an successful wealthy attorney while Charlene Morton is wrong accused low-income ex-convict who bares an outrageous personality. Throughout the movie both characters exhibit cliched stereotypes and use racially insensitive gestures. I believe mainstream media outlets like film often intermingle racial taboos into their productions for comical effect which is wrong and