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Celluloid Indian Group Project
320 Group
Project Assignment
Create a
group of 2-3 people. Choose a category from the following list and request it
immediately. Read about the films in the
group you’ve chosen and decide which ones you’ll view and incorporate in your
presentation. Create a question or claim that is Native-related and analytical that your group
will answer or assert (refer to Kilpatrick for ideas). You might focus on a
theme, a symbol, or a character(s), a theoretical concept such as agency,
visual/cultural sovereignty, etc.. Prepare a 20 minute oral presentation for
the class with a visual component; include film clips not to exceed 5 or so
minutes in length; film stills are fine; allow about 5 more minutes for
questions from the audience for 25 minutes presentation time total.
You will turn in a document that lists group members
and the role each played in your group, sources
consulted--see the Resources button for links to essays, books and websites
about the films, films viewed and a summary of your presentation (about 4 pages).
Remember to be analytical, to use critical thinking skills, and to put this in
the context of the history of Natives in film. How does your analysis add to
this study? For the
presentation: what idea do you most want your audience to understand? Provide
the "SO WHAT?"--why is your analysis important in to Native Studies and to
Native film? Why does your project matter?
Group Project Film List
Go to www.imdb.com for summaries and cast lists
GROUPS
ONE Early “Indian” Films
The Massacre (1913)
The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
The Paleface (1922)
Redskin (1929)
TWO Early Animation/Cartoons
“Pioneer Days” (1930; Mickey Mouse)
“Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh” (1938; Popeye)
“Scalp Trouble” (1939; Daffy Duck & Porky Pig)
“Rhythm on the Reservation” (1939; Betty Boop)
“Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt” (1941; Bugs Bunny)
“The Daffy Duckaroo” (1941; Daffy Duck)
“Big Heel-Watha” (1944; Screwball cartoon)
“Wagon Heels” (1945; Porky Pig cartoon)
“Wigwam Whoopee” (1948; Popeye) “Two Little Indians” (1953; Hanna-Barbara
cartoon)
“A Cowboy Needs a Horse” (1956; Mickey Mouse)
“Horse Hair” (1962; Bugs Bunny Cartoon)
Peter Pan (1953)
THREE Recent Animation
Pocahontas (1995)
Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)
Avatar
FOUR Massacre/Violence to Right the World
Soldier Blue (1970)
Ulzana’s Raid (1972)
Johnny Firecloud (1975)
Crazy Horse (1996)
Clearcut (1991)
Geronimo (1993)
Windtalkers (2002)
FIVE Classic Westerns
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
Northwest Passage (1940)
White Eagle (1941)
Cherokee Uprising (1950)
Distant Drums (1951)
Arrowhead (1953)
Pillars of the Sky (1956)
Comanche (1956)
Pawnee (1957)
SIX Playing Indian/Possibility of Integration
The Squaw Man (1931)
Broken Arrow (1950)
Little Big Man (1970)
A Man Called Horse (1970)
Cheyenne Warrior (1994)
SEVEN Red Power Era
The Trial of Billy Jack (1974)
Alcatraz is Not an Island (2002)
Thunderheart (1992)
Incident at Oglala (1992)
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973
Trudell: the Movie
EIGHT Imagining Contact
The Far Horizons (Lewis & Clark story)
Blackrobe (1991)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale (1994)
The New World (2005)
Apocalypto
Avatar
NINE Indigenous Aesthetics (Love/Family)
Medicine River (1993)--on Reserve
Naturally Native (1998)--I own
Christmas in the Clouds (2001)
Doe Boy (2001)--I own
Four Sheets to the Wind (2006)--I own
TEN Indigenous Aesthetics (Overcoming Adversity)
Grand Avenue (1996)--I own
Edge of America (2003)
Doe Boy (2001)--I own
ELEVEN Indigenous Aesthetics (Returning Warriors)
Skins (2002)--I own
House Made of Dawn (1987)
Johnny Tootall (2005)
TWELVE Imagining Indians
Dead Man (1995)
Fish Hawk (1979)
Song of Hiawatha (1997)
Big Eden (2005)
Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
Dance Me Outside (1995)--I own
THIRTEEN Imagining Navajo Indians
Coyote Waits (2003)
A Thief of Time
Skinwalkers (2002)
Conversion (2007) a short film by Navajo filmmaker Nanabeh Becker--our library
owns
The Fourth World (blackhorse lowe)
The Return of Navajo Boy
FOURTEEN Documentaries
Alcatraz is Not an Island
On and Off the Res with Charlie Hill--on Reserve
A Century of Genocide in the Americas: The Residential School Experience--on
Reserve
Trudell (2005)-our library owns
Teachings of the Tree People (2007)--WSU library (if not at ours)
FIFTEEN Gender
The Business of Fancydancing--I own
Naturally Native--I own
Group Project Film List
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