Indigenous Writes
The book I chose for this assignment is Indigenous Writes by Chelsea Vowel. The topic of Indigenous peoples is a very serious topic but the way the author writes about it is very entertaining and educational. She uses satire to talk about historical issues, current issues, political issues and destroys myths about Indigenous people all while staying on the path of keeping it serious. Not knowing much about Indigenous people’s history this was a good book to start with. To compare the book to some of the lecture notes I am going to talk about the media and how the Indigenous people are portrayed in movies and T.V shows. Second would be race and how their identity was stolen and is still ...
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wild and on reservations, (Nittle, 2017). Indigenous men in the media are portrayed as warriors and medicine men while women are portrayed as beautiful Indian maiden. Indigenous women in movies are highly sexualized and are also often subjected to derogatory sexual comments. (Nittle, 2017). Stoic Indians, in my opinion, are very common in movies. Stoic Indians are the unsmiling Aboriginal men that have very little to say and no emotion on their face which is not factual, (Nittle, 2017). Magical medicine men is seem in films and T.V shows where men are often portrayed as wise men with magical powers to protect white people from harm, (Nittle, 2017). In James Fenimore Coopers film The Last of the Mohicans there is no shortage of bloodthirsty Indian warriors, (Nittle, 2017). Bloodthirsty warriors is a term used for Indigenous people in films to show that Indigenous people are blood thirsty for white man’s blood, they engage in ‘savage’ practices such as, scalping and sexually ...
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the past, (Vowel, 2016). “When Canadians consider injustices faced by Indigenous peoples, those injustices are nearly always located in the past,” (Vowel, 2016). Every generation has located injustice in the past and only rarely in contemporary context, (Vowel, 2016). There are Canadians who still think that there was no colonization in Canada but the Canadians who do understand historical injustice faced by Indigenous people understand it as something in the past, bad things happened and equality was achieved, anything the Indigenous people are facing right now is based on choice to be lazy and insufficient, (Vowel, 2016). In other words, there is no history of colonialism in ...
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