In a recent newscast, ICT (formerly Indian Country Today) interviewed ŗ¬Šß²Ż“«Ć½ 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 ā.ā
āIāve been teaching āAmerican Indian in the Cinemaā for going on 30 years, and people have asked me, whatās the solution to some of these problems?ā said Buffalohead. āAnd itās 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 theyāre somewhere in the past. People donāt see us as contemporaryāthey see us as these images in the old West and very much stereotypes of plains or southwest Indians. They donāt see the real diversity of Indigenous people in the Americas.ā
The conversation with anchor Aliyah Chavez also touched on expanding representations in television through shows like āRutherford Fallsā and āReservation Dogs,ā translation of major films into the Navajo and Comanche languages, and Professor Marubbioās 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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