Re Injun Film Analysis

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Niel’s Diamond documentary, “Reel Injun”, is about the misinterpretation of the truth about Native people. The documentary outlines the progress of the “Hollywood Indian” characterized in many films throughout the century. Natives have been portrayed with stereotyping and discrimination, and this has influenced the worlds interpretation of Natives,and it has also contributed to an Indian activist. More attention should be made toward the movies of Native people has led to the misconception of individuals’ opinion of them. These movie films should portray Native as who they are and should not be viewed a s something their not in films.

Since the invention of moving images in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, films were being used to allow audiences to watch people on screens. Many of the films have been used to convey truths about society. Native people were portrayed as spiritual, noble, and free, such as “Dances With Wolves”. They were always shown in their type of clothing, dance, and language. In the western movie genre, the image of the hollywood indians tells the audience nothing about the
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Many people want to become like them. Such as the Camp leader from a Native camp who facilitates the program with his other colleagues and he came to believe that the native people are always together as a family it is like brotherhood to him. The camp uses their spirit and freeness during the summer to hang out with their friends they meet at summer camp and relive the same moment of the indigenous people did back then. Hippie Counterculture, are the hippies who attempted to be unrestricted of society, choosing their own way and uncovering a new developed feeling of existence. As they strive to be independent from social norms achieved by the hippies was their unusual way of dressing and self-governing. It was inspired by the Native Americans

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