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Culture for Sale
Label Me Native
I'm Ready for my Close Up, Chief!
Rolls With Dice
Not All Rainbows
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This heterogeneous collection of philosophies and practices, considered an emerging movement in the 1980s, is largely responsible for the commercialization of Native American Spirituality.
What is the New Age Movement?
100
A learned form of classifying and labeling others based on inaccurate information or assumption rather than factual knowledge.
What is Stereotyping?
100
In this 1930's movie, Native Americans are portrayed as Renegades and Savages.
What is Stagecoach – Directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne?
100
Many Native Americans are perceived as rich because of gaming revenues.
What is the number of Native Americans becoming rich off casino money?
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The commercialization of Native American tradition is considered an honor to this group of people.
Who is No one?
200
Are as diverse as that of Europeans.
What is the culture, language, and history of Native Americans?
200
All Native Americans can shoot with a bow & arrow or rifle with ease while riding a horse at high speed.
What is False?
200
Many Indian stereotypes suggest Native Americans "sold out" for profitable means. In reality, they have adapted to the times and are finding new ways to survive.
What is exploiting their Native culture for money?
200
What is the status of Native drug abuse?
Methamphetamine use in reservations Contributes to higher crime rates Gray area with sovereign nations
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This term explains the growing commercialization and exploitation of Native American traditions, customs and sacred items by positing that Americans have romanticized native culture in a way that assumes the “pose of innocent yearning” as a way to “conceal its complicity with often brutal domination”.
What is Imperialist Nostalgia?
300
Convinced that the Native savage souls needed saving and justified their conquests and enslavement policies.
Who are Christian Europeans?
300
This #1 hit in 1973 depicted "Sexy Squaw" as pop culture.
What is Cher's "Half Breed"?
300
“Chiefs”, who were actually chosen for their willingness to serve and support their community.
What is the stereotype of immoral men corrupted by money?
300
What is the poverty rate of Native Americans?
-Reservations face hardship -Condensation
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This industry is the area in which most profits are made to New Agers who are appropriating indigenous spirituality.
What is Publishing?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!! (Video of Peter Pan's stereotyped Indians)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_at9dOElQk
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This mythical Native American shed a tear for ecology and was viewed an estimated 15 billion times.
Who is Iron Eyes Cody?
400
This theme suggests that certain individuals take advantage of the opportunities that being Native American give, especially building casinos on the reservation.
What is a tribe must have all of their members documented?
400
What is the status of domestic abuse within Native cultures?
-Crime rates considerably higher on reservations -Homicide stats
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This truth is the biggest irony of the commercialization of Native American spirituality.
What is New Age plastic shamans profit from these “degrading and twisted versions of Native American rituals” while many Natives find themselves living at or below the poverty level?
500
Most common knowledge of Indians comes from the media and movies like Pocahontas, because the movies have a tremendous advantage in educating the critical masses of people. Thus, we need to carefully review our historical past in order to understand the present, move on to the future, and not get caught up and trapped in old negative stereotypes of the American frontier past, freeze dried and recycled as modern cultural myths - all of which were mostly established by white inventors of Indian images.
What is the effect of cartoons, movies and comics about Indians that somehow find their way into the classrooms of America?
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Yes and No.
Are Native American stereotypes disappearing?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!! (Video of The Peanuts Thanksgiving story of Independence)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnohHTLMs3Q
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What is the status of Native alcohol abuse?
-Higher alcohol related deaths in Natives -Frequency vs. Amount