Name: Indigenous People Review Native American Characters In Film & TV
Uploaded: 2020-10-27T18:42:53.000Z
Duration: 8 min 25 s
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I'm a registered member of the Cahto tribe from Oklahoma

- My name is Silas Cleveland. I'm from Lander, Wyoming.

I am Kalder Ness from Kennebec, South Dakota.

- And I was raised on the Lower Brule Sioux tribe

Indian reservation, you were also raised.

I am an enrolled member of the Choctaw nation of Oklahoma.

some native American characters in film and TV.

- Native American and indigenous representation

And the reason for that is that oftentimes

the stories are being told by non-natives.

- I grew up watching westerns with my dad on TV.

why are we watching this movie again with these people

And he'd say, well, maybe someday we'll actually win.

Because we were always the ones that got killed off

- You think that only because you don't know any better.

- No, I don't think very many natives like hearing

We've improved the lives of savages all over the world.

the most civilized people, have been for centuries.

- For many years, I resisted watching the movie Pocahontas

just because I knew it was going to be a bad representation.

- I really kind of stay away from these types.

because they're not even close to the truth.

- I was going to say, I don't remember watching Pocahontas.

But I liked when she reacted to him calling her a savage

because I think that's what a lot of people think

- Pocahontas, in reality, historically was a young girl.

She was taken and forced to marry John Smith

against her will, and it wasn't a beautiful love story.

that when I read the story a long, long time ago,

I really related to, because I think a lot of our people

are still to this day suffering from the trauma

they experienced, whether it's this generation

- I think she was actually a great tracker, too.

and Sacagawea being part of my ancestry, in my tribe,

- I was struck by her outfit because that's the next thing

I look at is I try to figure out what tribe they are

- I bet a lot of people haven't heard of Sacagawea before,

and so, at least it was educational from that viewpoint,

- Technically you're a council meeting crasher.

- See, the council leaders, dad, Quil's Grandpa,

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