In Der Freitag’s print edition, on our upcoming documentary Forget Winnetou! Going Beyond Native Stereotypes in Germany, historical context and how the USA’s deliberate “alternative facts” or Eurocentric fabrication of history contributes to continuing racism, colonialism and oppression of Native Americans. Stereotypes are a symptom of the overall disease. Interview and article by Matthias Dell. […]
My Interview on #Deutschlandradio Kultur Kompressor Radio Show-March 14, 2017
Here’s the direct link to listen online to my interview on Deutschlandradio’s Cultural Radioshow “Kompressor”, sharing news on Native current events and talking about the directing (and currently filming) “Forget Winnetou! Going Beyond Native Stereotypes in Germany”. At the webpage, interview in German is at the top. To listen in English, the link is […]
#Poem for the Spring Season: “In The Clover”
Though supposed to be somewhere else he’s improbably there: stretched out on his back in a field of purple clover, hands beneath his head, feet crossed at the ankles. Humming a tune, he smiles as the wind ruffles his hair. Stretched out on his back in a field of purple clover, hands beneath his […]
On Newsstands This Weekend: My Interview in Süddeutsche Zeitung
I was surprised by the request last Friday, and here’s the result, published for the weekend of 4/5 March 2017 in Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the largest German subscription paper in Germany. In print & online here. Currently, filming documentary “Forget Winnetou! Going Beyond Native Stereotypes in Germany”, and in the middle of our crowdfunding campaign. Check […]
Karl May Museum’s Lastest on Human Remains? WE Decide, Not You. We’re in Control. #Repatriation
A “case study” by Robin Leipold, curator of the Karl May Museum in Radebeul, Germany. Karl May is the German author who created the stereotypical “American Indian” character Winnetou, peopling his dozens of books and later films with fabricated, mythical, heavily distorted “Indians”, but “positive” characters, not the vicious or dumb savages churned out by […]
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