A century to finally show Indigenous People on screen. Free from stereotypes include shades, but long before little gladstone trial, native stars were making movies. The digital stories are nothing new. And hollywood from the start american directors were pointing their cameras at need of people from the origins of American Cinema images, people were not at the margins of the screen. They were at the center pre world war one in the silent era. There was a real, a 100 and an audience, a see what they called indian drama. Story was the silent movies were mixed bag, some propagating clearly racist stereotypes, others depicting more positive and complex indigenous stories. You had images of villains and noble indians. You had indian white relationships or marriages that worked out if you had those that fell apart. And you also had mixed images of what they referred to as quote, a good the evil half breed, but also the noble half rate. Anyway, native stars like james young, dear, an empty coke actor, writer and director involved with the production of more than a 150. 00 silent films. Many with his wife, lilian, st. See, or, or red wing. They were the 1st native american hollywood Power Company for americas cowboy philosopher will rogers, a citizen of the cherokee nation. At one point rogers, who starred in more than 70 films, was the highest paid actor in hollywood, a steven host of the oscars and 1934. So the only native american to do so. But most of the early indigenous stars have been forgotten replaced by an image of native americans drilled into the culture by hundreds of hollywood western the. We all know the stereotypes, the brave white cowboy fighting the savage indians to bring civilization to the wild west. Imagine youre in indigenous person watching one of these classic hollywood westerns. Who would you identify with the cowboy or the india . The are you watching these westerns and the stereotype is that the indians are stupid and they always get killed old. And when i found out it was an indian, its like, you know, you did the, you dont want to be about the color as a power. Youre the represented on the westerns, the 1st hollywood western. This took their queue from earlier forms of popular entertainment paintings, pump novels and circus style spectacles that sold a particular image of the wild west, and invented history. Thats all white settler expansion across the america as well, justified and inevitable, a concept known as manifest destiny. That goes back to wild west shows, it goes back to dime novels. And the paintings of that era, like Frederick Remington is, who we are as individuals, we very much are rooted in individual lives. Im in there in this country as well as manifest destiny. I am sorry to say what happened to that boy who was our lives as wider. Consider john fords 1939 film stagecoach, about a group of settlers traveling west who get attacked. What ford doesnt mention is that its the settlers who are the real and bakers here its apache, land, its indigenous land. And theyre all is represented on the margins as flattened. The western is southern colonial genre. It is about invasion, but it is selling invasion as self defense. Most hollywood, west friends also engage in red, facing casting white actors to play natives. Practice mock them the 2009 documentary real engine. The stereotypes of these old hollywood westerns continues to shape popular sentiment and popular perception of native peoples today. Even nowadays people ask like, oh do you live in a t p or like no, i live in a house. Oh, does it have electricity . Yeah. Is that on the reservation . No. And do you guys ride horses to work every day . No, you know, does the government pay for things . No, i, i pay taxes. I have a ton of student debt. You know, many westerns made, Indigenous People background players and their own stories. It would take decades in a role reversal in the native narrative. Before hollywood put introduced characters back in the spotlight the by the early 19 forties with america entering award. If like nazi germany, film showing white settlers shooting natives, wasnt a good look you was really wasnt interested in sending a broad images of white men killing indians, one by one that resembled too much fascist genocide. The end of the war brought a new kind west in broken arrow from 1950. Jean stewart, please, an Army Scouting negotiates a peace treaty with apache leader to cheese. The film put its native and white characters on equal footing. The do you think because i am an indian, im a fool you can quickly, i would not have come here if i thought that a full season, only today it is because i respect you as a leader of your people that i think optimize all the start having things like broken arrow with Jimmy Stewart and 1950, and anthony mans devils doorway also 1950. Both of those are, are sympathetic westerns with strong and native characters, but played by white actors and red face, but their dramas, of white sympathy, belief, 19 sixties and early seventys hollywood sympathies entirely with the natives. Neil or revisionist restaurants like soldier, blue and Little Big Man, flip the script, a manifest destiny, dustin hoffman, and Little Big Man plays a white man. Raised by the cheyenne, retails the old wild west stores. But now the cowboys and soldiers are the good ones. And the natives, the victims plain hoffmans mentor is neat, an artist, an activist chief scan. George. He received an oscar nomination for his performance. A 1st front indigenous act. I am blind, cannot find that i went wrong. If its my duty to die, i want to do it here within a sir. 2000 kilometers from hollywood and vancouver, a young native girl had found a role model that was kind of a huge moment because he lived in north town and he lives not that far away from where i live. And so i used to follow him. And so it was really kind of cool to see him and Little Big Man and you know, some of the 20s with movies that he did, that was really, i think the 1st time that really resonated that i went pay, wait a minute, that guys, you know, hes intention us and hes a big star, a world away german who was having its own your western moment in west germany predating Little Big Man like almost a decade. You had the winter to fill adventure stories based on german novels and about her like apache cheap one or 2 and his white blood brother old shot her hand, the bible, find east germany state, run deepest studios, have its own indiana film, which were our historic stories told them in a to perspective the judges, communities acted a stand ins for socialist ideals. And he really, as natives fighting the greed and imperialism of the us army. But these german westerns also featured read facing windows who was played by frenchman beer police to come see by german serbian actor. Quite cool, me touch. But im like those manifest destiny films here. The indigenous characters are the heroes still need of filmmakers like those have come to jeremy for the villain film festival. Also find these heroic characters. Problematic. What i often say to people is just think about the history of cinema. I think about what you grown up watching is being indian. Its always again, that romantic notion of like, you know, being in the while its really romanticized and never, never done by actually Indigenous People around a play. It would take a big, Hollywood Star and the revival of the western to spark, new interest in need of stories and, and digital story dollars the in 1990. The western was considered box office plays. Then kevin cost. Theres dances with wolves costner, police a Us Army Soldier who leads his former life behind to live with the code on combining the sweeping scale and imagery of the wild west shows and those john ford ero westerns with a neil western perspective of violent white man and the just victims the film was a mega hit, earning the equivalent of 1000000000. 00 in todays money, the praise at the time for its sympathetic betrayal of native characters. Dances with wolves has not aged well. Maybe what you do is you got to see the idea go, well, is that kind of things . Its a sound comes out is because cost those characters, the hero, and because the low to depend on him to come to their rescue, the film is held up as an example of the so called white savior, narrative, pico is character, becomes a better look, go to them to look over to learning their language and instructing them on how best to say to try and meet your shop. Yeah, we could take the haitian and do you mind me and its very much like yeah, like, you know, natives always needed a savior or you know, natives had problems that we couldnt solve ourselves so we needed someone else to come do it. The white savior narrative is still very much with us. Many critics, the a similar approach and cost centers hit series, yellowstone, and fear his new epic western horizon will again be a white gaze on native history. Those wagons. The in Science Fiction movies like amateur re purpose, the same story with a heroic white man coming to the rescue of the embattled Indigenous People of pandora, after making their traditions is all a good. So well hit save. Yeah. Try. But its not going away. You know, either the talk to some of the will, i think ive ever tied to when ever dial one and theyre both white, save the narratives and start watching it because its split of body act as people i know what our problem advocates framing of native history the success of dances with wolves, sparks, new interest, anita, stories, world line any. The filmmakers stepped up to tell the youre always trying to sound like some of them medicine manner. So i mean, how many times have you seen dances when 10200 . I have seen that that many times i dont even know how to be real india, i guess not. No wonder geez, i guess ill have to teach you the name of 1st of all and gains. Of course, the smile like that gets stolen. No. Like this, chris are smoke signals, the 1st major us film written, directed and stirring Indigenous People from any american natives. This is the 1st time they recognize themselves on screen. As a 7 year old child, it you dont necessarily relate to the 1700s when youre in teepees and buckskin and stuff like that. Sounds like smoke signals, which is really awesome that showed more modern natives and more modern struggles. Years before in new zealand, lead time, a hari made once were warriors depicting mallory life from the inside. It struck a nerve from a north american perspective. It wasnt in the film. You know, it was like a very independent stone. But a new zealand. It was a blockbuster, it was the number one stump months. It was a very confronting film that was written bottom audi. Alsa the right sir, and made by monte director old body cost at a very significant portion of monte cruz. I may turn in the name of the young to dinner during the survey canadians and the most broken milestone. 2001 with i to now show at the fast runner, the 1st film written directed and acted entirely in the new language that retails a centuries old. And you with legend about occurs that destroys a village and a man forced to flee across the ice on foot. The film sold around the world, it was clear need of filmmakers and left the old, wild west show behind. And they werent looking back. None of the 1st wave of native directed movies were a huge hit, but they inspired a Younger Generation of indigenous filmmakers including a then a known mallory director named type of what do you think theres more here right now. Hes a busy man. Hes a mazda kava, the teachers. Your daughter gets the most direct between and most people with one hand. When he comes home, hes taking me to see Michael Jackson lies the in. I live in a room village on the east coast, and these are going very similar to, to a boy. And when the phone came out, we played it in that Community Holes and they were pigs because people were finally seeing themselves being presented in their own way or physically size their own people. Thank you boy. You want to get up to to go to my name is tony. Im a new lawyer to days notice. Hes in jail for robbery. Shut up. Can you use . Hes in the same cell. Broke is margie anymore. Escaped. So he does a hole underneath the fence, was what . Screwed up. The gods the voice my name is in spears. I am from decree and nation in manitoba, canada. Your native cold stories reframe native history, canadian miniseries bones, crows, shows the generational trauma rock on native communities to the Residential School system of the government toward native children from the families, forcing them to convert to christianity and banning them from speaking native languages. The explosive purpose was to kill the indians and the child, the native communities, screenings of bones of pros work. This are to have a feeling the something that is coming. We wont be able to protect the whole house. What we know from Residential School is that, you know, some of these secrets are some of these things that we held and our families hadnt been released to now havent been told by members who had experienced it. So sometimes in these communities, after watching bonds across, you know, someone from their own community would reveal experiences that they had, that not even, you know, their daughters knew there was going to come even when dealing with Serious Problems like alcoholism violence. So the legacy of colonialism, these native pulled stories, have hope, schumer and a spirit of resilience. And when, you know, we have survived as Indigenous People throughout the world, even though governments have tried to annihilate us or show us off or chill, our language is in our cultures to hear the message that needs to be involved and telling their own stories appears. Finally, to have reached tinseltown. So when hollywood biggest movie star and its most the claim director tried to tell a story about native history, they knew they needed help. The was land is Martin Scorseses killers of the flower movies set in 19 twenties, oklahoma tells the true story of a series of murders, of those age needed by white man. Many married native women leaving r dicaprio as character ernest to marys. Molly play by Lily Gladstone in a conspiracy to seal the rights to their foil rich land. Hungry planning is 200000000. 00 epic. Oh square says hes 1st visit. Was the osage country land possible today. How smart everybody, marty went to the tribe 1st and he asked blake, can i tell this story . And when they had concerns of like, well, you know, like, whats the story going to be like . How are you going to pick the violence . How are you going to get to pick the, the sisters . How are you going to pick the family in the tribe . I think he very much listen to their concerns. No stage consultants let scorsese to completely change a key scene. For ernest visit smally at home. And theres a storm coming, the you to understand about our culture is that for example, when i was a young kid or 5 or 6 thatd be running around my house and my grandma would be there and. And then one day was running around, she goes, stop it, stop it sits, sit still. So theres a storm coming and she said, sit and be quiet and let the blessing of the storm. The content is giving us, but it wash over us. And we have to sit and let the storm pass and relish actually appreciate. Appreciate the blessing of nature. Storm is powerful. So we need to be quiet for a while the lets go to the cross judge for sure. Space. Do you originally the theme is that were drinking and some he gets drunk and she can hold the liquor and thats what so now this is more interesting, but its that sense. So thats so much also about the different cultures, the totally different culture. Yeah im, he, im, its in the, in the sense i found with the sage im as a sense of giving, giving away giving gifts, giving. And the leos group its taking, taking there is plenty of violence and killers. It is a score says the film after all, but the focus is on the personal furnace, intimate the trail of his wife, the violence of settler colonialism playing out on a domestic scale. But killers. The flower moon is still a native story told from the outside, from the perspective of a white man. The score says he kept saying, this is not the white hero like dances with wolves. No, it wasnt. It revolved around the white villain. So you still had a white person or anti hero, the center of the movie and the camera lingered constantly on dicaprio, and it really reinforced that he dominated that story. The night of the community looked at it and say, oh what a missed opportunity. But it needs to be a native made and native directed and native risk risk. And theres and all that story. But everybody agrees on the gladstone native r as worldwide are cheering on for success. The literally gladstone being nominated for an oscar, you know, she talked and, and blackfoot, and you know, at her award acceptance speech and it makes us all proud. And it makes us all believe that were, were able to get there, you know, and uplift each other. Thats why native artists are looking beyond killers of the flower moon, to a Brighter Future were in digits. Narratives are not bound by the stories of the past. The forget the world wish native made story telling today can be anything and everything. It could be big bunch of fantasy like marvel movies for regular rock from our director. Type of what do you think class it can be low but inside fi like night graders from cree matthews. Director, done a split. Are you ready to give yourself to your country completely, which re imagines the Residential School system as a futuristic distributor. It can be hor, like Blood Quantum from the lake mac mac director jeff barnaby. Its about a virus that turns everyone non native into zombies. It can be comedy. Oh, thank you for your donation. Excuse me for my beauty now for our so ill give you some ancient native american wisdom here. Lets just beginning serious reservation dogs gonna take what cd and seminal filmmaker stolen. Hodge. Kind of gang was both right and wrong in the mafia. Couldnt make up their mind. They want the blood to print. Well, maybe theyre good. Its happening. Its like im getting like shells thinking about it, like there is things, theres so many things like to know reference that have been directed by Indigenous People written by Indigenous People produced by Indigenous Peoples whether the invention, histories or futuristic sy fi fantasy western clear. Um, you know, uh any genre because its Indigenous People were like, well, our imaginations are incredible. Native characters being imagined and screens today are authentic and complex. Crazy took as contradictory and delirious the old era of 2 dimensional native villains and victims is past. For the future, hollywood job will be to help indigenous artists tell their own story. With a glad to pass that will escape, the letterman jacket, i black go back. The, the, the, we traumatized from colonization. We are focusing on a coffee cuz that has africa. Were always aware all the games have support fighting colonialism successfully resist. Ill send 6 africans traditional ostrich box. 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This week we are focusing on the topic that of africa were always aware of. But dont always discuss in detail. Were talking about the impact of colonialism with a special focus on german colonial rule. This is what weve prepared for you and sounds on. Yeah, well look at the atrocities committed by gemini. I feel why. So find me leads us to a morning during our street. The bass will find out how colonial history is that young people