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ken fisher <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 7 Apr 1993 14:39:09 -0400
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>For starters, to talk about the 200-plus
>Native Americans cultures as if they were all the same ("The Indians")
>is grossly false -- there's as much difference between Pawnee and
>Cheyenne (or Kwakiutl and Nez Perce, or Navajo and Iroquois) as there
>is between divergent European cultures
 
Has anyone mentioned BLACK ROBE yet? It has exactly this evenhanded
approach to the clash of divergent Amerindian tribes with equally
diverse Europeans. No heroes, no villains, no easy judgements --
and not the faintest fetid hint of Poli-Corr. A great film.
 
kjf-

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