Celluloid Indians:

Native Americans in Popular Film

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Native American Film Festivals

Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian Native Networks
excellent source for new Native films, feature and documentary;
learn about film festivals and filmmakers here

AMERICAN INDIAN FILM INSTITUTE AND FESTIVAL (san francisco)

Native Film and Cultural Festival, Agua Caliente Tribe, Palm Springs

Longhouse Media and Native Film, Seattle area


Film and Native American Studies Journals

American Indian Quarterly
Wicazo Sa Journal of American Indian Studies
Film Comment
Film History
Cineaste

(you can find several film journals listed at the UI Library's journal list; you'll need to search the journals through the UI databases--usually JSTOR and Project Muse; ask a reference librarian for assistance. Also try searching with Google Scholar for reviews and articles.)

Good websites for Native Americans in Film:

Native Americans in the Movies A great site from UC Berkeley.
Movies, Race and Ethnicity: Native Americans
Media Resources Center at UC Berkeley
Native American Resources: Film and Video

Blue Corn Comics Irregular this guy reviews lot of Native films and has good links.

 

Representations/Stereotyping of Native Americans
Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native Americans
An Introduction to Powerful Images as curriculum

"Romancing the Indian in Cooper and Twain" Adriana Rissetto's article discusses Mark Twain's and James Fenimore Cooper's popular presentations of Indians in the 1800's.

The Western Film
IN FOCUS: The Western, An Overview

A Helpful Partial Bibliography on Representations of American Indians

  • Axtell, James. 1992, Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America. Oxford University Press: New York.
  • Bird, Elizabeth. 1996, Editor, Dressing In Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture, Vestview Press: Oxford.
  • Clifford, James. 1985, "Four Northwest Coastal Museums: Travel Reflections" in Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture, Edited by George W. Stocking, Jr. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison.
  • Coombe, Rosemary J. 1998, "Consuming Crazy Horse", pgs. 199- 207 in The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties. Duke University Press: Durham.
  • Cowen, Paul. 1991, "A Social-Cognitive Approach to Ethnicity in Films", in Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema, pgs: 353-377. Ed.: Lester D. Freidman. University of Illinois Press: Urbana.
  • Deloria, Phil. 1998, "Counterculture Indians and the New Age", Chap. 6, pgs. 154 - 180 in Playing Indian. Yale University Press: New Haven.
  • Hanson, Jeffery R. and Linda P.Rouse. 1978, "Dimensions of Native American Stereotyping" in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 11:4, pgs. 33-58. Regents of the University of California: L.A.
  • Kasdan, Margo and Susan Tavernetti.1998, "Native Americans in a Revisionist Western: Little Big Man" in Hollywood's Indian.
  • Ted Jojola - "On Revision and Revisionism: American Indian Representations in New Mexico," in Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing About American Indians, 1998, pgs. 172 -179, Ed. by Devin Mihesuah, University of Nebraska Press.
  • Oshana, Maryann. 1982, "Native American Women in Westerns: Reality and Myth" in Frontiers Vol. VI, No. 3, 1982.
  • Pearlstone, Zena. 1995, "Native American Images in Advertising", in American Indian Art Magazine, Vol.20, #3, , pgs.: 39- 43.
  • Risetto, Adriana. Romancing The Indian
  • Rollins, Peter and John O'Connor. 1998, Editors, Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film. The University of Kentucky Press: Lexington.
  • Rowlandson, Mary. 1930, A narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin co.: Boston.
  • Sieminski, Captain Greg, 1990, "The Puritan Captivity Narrative and the Politics of the American Revolution.", in American Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 1.
  • Twain, Mark, 1870, "The Noble Red Man", first published in The Galaxy.
  • Vizenor, Gerald. 1994. "Ishi Obscura"in Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance. Wesleyan University Press: New England.
  • Weaver, Jace. 1997, "The Continuing Search for Community" and "Anger Times Imagination", pgs. 121- 168 in That the People Might