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This person is known for his photography of Native Americans. He is controversial because he presented Native peoples as being in the past and often manipulated images to do so.
Who is Edward Curtis?
This film is based on a novel by James Fenimore Cooper. Its main character is a white man adopted by Native people.
What is The Last of the Mohicans?
The ways in which popular culture works to produce racism and misogyny.
What is expectation?
This Native American couple are known for creating films during the early 20th century that subverted cultural expectations about race and gender. They are examples of the unexpected.
Who are Princess Red Wing and James Young Deer?
D.W. Griffith's silent film that portrays Native people as barbaric savages who eat puppies and want to kill white babies.
What is The Battle at Elderbush Gulch?
Originally coined by anthropologist Johannes Fabian, this theoretical concept places Native peoples in the past and denies them a place in the present or future.
What is the denial of coevalness?
This ethnomusicologist worked closely with Francis LaFlesche (Omaha) to document Omaha songs and, by extension, contributed to the rise of a national music tradition.
Who is Alice Fletcher?
This is an unexpected film because of the way "Chief" subverts ideas about the stoic Indian and other conventional tropes used to represent Native peoples in film.
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
The fear of interracial relationships and mixing that is a recurring theme in films with Native Americans.
What is miscegenation?
This Creek singer and performer worked closely with composer Charles Cadman and played with white expectations of Native peoples and music.
Who is Tsianina Redfeather?
This film is considered an anomaly even though it tried to present a sympathetic view towards Native peoples.
What is Broken Arrow?
The final scene of The Last of the Mohicans portrays this concept through the somber music, cliffside imagery, and dialogue about the changing frontier.
What is the Vanishing Indian?
This Anishinaabe Hall of Famer, and other successful Native athletes, were considered a spectacle to white audiences who idealized "a lost time of natural physicality and strength."
Who is Charles Albert "Chief" Bender?
This film classically depicts an ambush scene that, as Englehardt explains, is used as evidence of Native peoples' treacherous behavior and makes the "intruder" the intruded upon.
What is Stagecoach?
As a cinematic genre, westerns are a celebration of American nationalism and this idea that it was the U.S.'s God-given right to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?