Part One: Drawing on evidence from the film Reel Injun, the PowerPoint lecture, and your textbook chapter, explain why many Native Americans point to the entertainment industries (film and music) as responsible for furthering a long history of misconceptions, oppression, and annihilation of Native American culture. Do you think there is a convincing argument for this reaction? Why or why not? And, is there a solution?
In the PowerPoint, Native American Music, there is a slide (11) that has a list of reasons why people are uneducated in Native American music culture. One of the reasons would be the forced migrations, the natives would leave their homeland, which leads their music culture to be combined with other tribe’s cultures or be completely …show more content…
Such as the connection to spirituality, religion, and ceremony (chapter to PowerPoint slide #18). Although, there are six regional groups that contain different tribes with their own music cultures that set them apart distinctively. In the Plains (Upper West & Mid-West), there are the Blackfoot, Crow, and Dakota tribes. In the film, Reel Injun, the Crow tribes were known for having a close connection with their horses. I believe that the connection between animals & humans is a strong form of spirituality. Their melodic lines are consisted of using pentatonic scales and repeating rhythmic patterns. During a song, they were accompanying their voices with rattles, shakers, and drums. The vocal style was a low, long tones, pulsating. Meanwhile in the East Coast (New England, Great Lakes, South East), the tribes of the Iroquois, Seneca, Mohawk, & Penobscot. They used repetition in certain sections, had more relaxed vocals, and used a call and response type of singing (Chapter 2 PowerPoint slide #20 & 21). It is very interesting to find such specific differences between each tribe. It's a unique way to define their own native American culture. Also, it breaks down the whole idea of stereotyping Native Americans to be all the same, as there is no one tribe
In the PowerPoint, Native American Music, there is a slide (11) that has a list of reasons why people are uneducated in Native American music culture. One of the reasons would be the forced migrations, the natives would leave their homeland, which leads their music culture to be combined with other tribe’s cultures or be completely …show more content…
Such as the connection to spirituality, religion, and ceremony (chapter to PowerPoint slide #18). Although, there are six regional groups that contain different tribes with their own music cultures that set them apart distinctively. In the Plains (Upper West & Mid-West), there are the Blackfoot, Crow, and Dakota tribes. In the film, Reel Injun, the Crow tribes were known for having a close connection with their horses. I believe that the connection between animals & humans is a strong form of spirituality. Their melodic lines are consisted of using pentatonic scales and repeating rhythmic patterns. During a song, they were accompanying their voices with rattles, shakers, and drums. The vocal style was a low, long tones, pulsating. Meanwhile in the East Coast (New England, Great Lakes, South East), the tribes of the Iroquois, Seneca, Mohawk, & Penobscot. They used repetition in certain sections, had more relaxed vocals, and used a call and response type of singing (Chapter 2 PowerPoint slide #20 & 21). It is very interesting to find such specific differences between each tribe. It's a unique way to define their own native American culture. Also, it breaks down the whole idea of stereotyping Native Americans to be all the same, as there is no one tribe