“I am not an activist, I am Lakota. Is a Lakota a born activist? An activist seeks social change. What do you call it when you only seek what was stolen from you? What do you call it when you fight to save the earth from destruction, the water from pollution? We Indian people have […]
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Behind the Scenes of “Forget Winnetou!” Hindsight on Collaboration
The stories of indigenous peoples and other people of color have been misrepresented and usurped by white people since the invention of moving pictures. Yet no one is better equipped to tell their own stories than the peoples themselves. In my opinion, it is one of the most egregiously “passive” yet harmful ways indigenous peoples […]
View our #documentary “Forget Winnetou!” project page at #FilmFreeway
(Link) From our page at Film Freeway: which includes news and reviews, project links and small press kit. “This film project was a particularly difficult one both for myself and many of the participants to film and complete, as it was both a personal and professional endeavor. Every day we live with the effects of […]
#Poem: “Threatened by #Beads” by Red Haircrow
This is one of two of my poems first published in Red Ink International Journal, Dec. 2016, and 2018 in (link) “Writing History” (tr. “Geschichte schreiben”), translated and part of an anthology in German, on decolonizing history and how history is told. Edited by Sharon Dodua Otoo and Manuela Bauche, published by S Fischer Verlage. […]
Call For Submissions #NativeAmerican #Indigenous #Film & Multimedia Screening Opportunity
In cooperation with Xart Splitta, we want to help showcase Native/indigenous films in Berlin, Germany through Fall/Winter 2018. My work at this point is voluntary, but I want to continue helping Natives present and represent themselves, especially in a country where “Indian” stereotypes are happily, pervasively common yet just as damaging and misrepresentative. Many really […]
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