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Christianity and culture FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse / Child Abuse Indians in motion pictures Indians of North America Missions Indians of North America Religion Indians, Treatment of United States SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures Stereotypes (Social psychology) United States Western films History and criticismFletcher, Matthew L. M.
Summary: Even before the Revolutionary War, American colonists feared and fought “merciless Indian savages,” and through the following centuries, American law and policy have been molded by the relentless tradition of Indian-hating. From proportional representation and restrictions on the right to bear arms, to the break-up of tribal property rights and the destruction of Indian culture and family, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.004 FLEBunnell, David
Summary: "Good Friday on the Rez introduces readers to places and people that author, writer, and entrepreneur David Bunnell encounters during his one day, 280-mile road trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to visit his longtime friend, Vernell White Thunder, a full-blooded Oglala Lakota, descendant of a long line of prominent chiefs and medicine men. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUNNELL, DAVID HUGH BUNDorgan, Byron L
Summary: "Through the story of Tamara, an abused Native American girl, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan tells the story of the many children living on Indian reservations. On a winter morning in 1990, Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up the Bismarck Tribune. On the front page, a small girl gazed into the distance, shedding a tear. The headline: "Foster home children beaten--and nobody's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.04 DORSmith, Craig Stephen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indian Life Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 266 SMISummary: Travelling through the heartland of America, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond examines how the myth of the movie "Injun" has influenced the world's understanding - and misunderstanding - of Natives. With clips from hundreds of classic and recent films, and candid interviews with celebrated Native and non-Native directors, writers, actors and activists, including Clint Eastwood, Robbie Robertson,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lorber Films 2010