“The Truth About Stories” By Thomas King.
“The Truth About Storys” is a series of mass lectures on CBC, throughout the five chapters he has covered many themes including the impact of colonialism on Indigenous communities.
In chapter II King had the idea to travel around North America taking pictures for a book, King states “I had not come up with this idea on my own. As a matter of fact, Edward Sheriff Curtis had already done this...” [Chpt 2 Pg 32]. Curtis became an incredibly famous photographer of “Indians,” in the year 1900, for thirty years he would travel and ended up taking forty-two thousand pictures. Curtis was consumed with finding the perfect picture; so much so, in fact, that he would travel with “Indian Paraphernalia Just in case he ran into Indians who did not look as the Indian was supposed to look” [Chapt 2 Pg34]. The work done by Curtis would further …show more content…
When King was a student in college King was “not indigenous enough” so he did the best, he could be the “Perfect Indian” He had a bone choker, Beaded belt, ribbon shirt,etc. After Graduation King went to campuses across the country giving lectures and at one lecture he decided to dress in a “Cheep but serviceable suit and a rather nice tie” [Chapt 2 pg 67]. At the end of his lecture an Indigenous man around the same age as King dressed as the “Perfect Indian” stood up and asked “What the hell an Apple is doing speaking for real Indians?”. In the 1960s and 1970s an “Apple” was a derogatory word used to describe an Indigenous person who was “Red on the outside and white on the inside” [Chapt 2 Pg 67/68]. It was the worst insult at the time. That young man that asked the king what he was doing is more evidence that colonialism has made people believe that the must look a certain way to be genuine, and if someone did not look the same way as them, they were fake or not
“The Truth About Storys” is a series of mass lectures on CBC, throughout the five chapters he has covered many themes including the impact of colonialism on Indigenous communities.
In chapter II King had the idea to travel around North America taking pictures for a book, King states “I had not come up with this idea on my own. As a matter of fact, Edward Sheriff Curtis had already done this...” [Chpt 2 Pg 32]. Curtis became an incredibly famous photographer of “Indians,” in the year 1900, for thirty years he would travel and ended up taking forty-two thousand pictures. Curtis was consumed with finding the perfect picture; so much so, in fact, that he would travel with “Indian Paraphernalia Just in case he ran into Indians who did not look as the Indian was supposed to look” [Chapt 2 Pg34]. The work done by Curtis would further …show more content…
When King was a student in college King was “not indigenous enough” so he did the best, he could be the “Perfect Indian” He had a bone choker, Beaded belt, ribbon shirt,etc. After Graduation King went to campuses across the country giving lectures and at one lecture he decided to dress in a “Cheep but serviceable suit and a rather nice tie” [Chapt 2 pg 67]. At the end of his lecture an Indigenous man around the same age as King dressed as the “Perfect Indian” stood up and asked “What the hell an Apple is doing speaking for real Indians?”. In the 1960s and 1970s an “Apple” was a derogatory word used to describe an Indigenous person who was “Red on the outside and white on the inside” [Chapt 2 Pg 67/68]. It was the worst insult at the time. That young man that asked the king what he was doing is more evidence that colonialism has made people believe that the must look a certain way to be genuine, and if someone did not look the same way as them, they were fake or not