Native Apparitions: Critical Perspectives on Hollywood’s Indians

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In Cherokee, the term for motion picture is a-da-yv-la-ti or a-da-yu-la-ti, meaning “something that appears.” In essence, motion pictures are machine-produced apparitions. Whilst the Cherokee language recognizes that movies aren’t reality, Western audiences would possibly on some level assume that film portrayals offer sincere depictions of imagined possibilities, creating a logic where what is projected will have to in part be true, stereotype or not.
 
Native Apparitions offers a essential intervention and response to Hollywood’s representations of Native peoples in film, from historical works by director John Ford to more recent works, such as Apocalypto and Avatar. But more than a critique of stereotypes, this book is a timely call for scholarly activism engaged in Indigenous media sovereignty. The gathering clusters around three approaches: retrospective analysis, individual film analysis, and Native- and industry-centered testimonials and interviews, which highlight indigenous knowledge and cultural context, thus offering a complex and multilayered dialogic and polyphonic response to Hollywood’s representations.
 
The usage of an American Indian studies framework, Native Apparitions deftly illustrates the relationship between Hollywood’s representations of Native peoples and broader sociopolitical and historical contexts connected to colonialism, racism, and the Western worldview. Most importantly, it shows the have an effect on of racializing stereotypes on Native peoples, and the resilience of Native peoples in resisting, transcending, and reframing Hollywood’s Indian tropes.

CONTRIBUTORS

Chadwick Allen
Richard Allen
Joanna Hearne
Tom Holm
Jan-Christopher Horak
Jacqueline Land
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
M. Elise Marubbio
Steve Pavlik
Rose Roberts
Myrton Running Wolf
Richard M. Wheelock

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