Join me for a rousing and illuminating conversation with Elias Gold, whom I discovered through his channel, Native Media Theory.
Elias takes us through a journey through time, from the written descritions of Viking explorers, to the earliest Spanish colonizers, through romance books, early cinema, and up to the present day, when native people are more and more stepping into roles as writers and directors to tell their stories widely.
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As examples, this episode includes clips from the following films and TV shows:
The Lone Ranger
Thunderheart
Black Panther
Pocahontas
Avatar 2
Evan Almighty
Smoke Signals
Reservation Dogs
Russell Means
Rutherford Falls
Prey
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
and thanks also to Eisa Davis for her funny and poignant song, The Ballad of the Magical Negro, performed at Joe’s Pub
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