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Great Indian Moments

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Native Stereotypes in Genreral

bent arrowAmerican Indian Sports Team Mascots (AISTM.ORG; ©1998-2006)
        --a thorough & well-done resources & links page

bent arrow"Indian" Mascots and Logos: Looking Forward to Their History (D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark)
        --a wonderful set of pages with original editorial material and copious source quotations

bent arrowWould the REAL Don Juan Please Step Forward:
Plastic Medicine Men and White America's Desperate Search for Native Spirituality
(Ben Corbett)
        --an examination of mainstream culture's "desperate" need to appropriate Native religiosity, with telling quots. from Deloria, Trudell, etc.

bent arrowThe Pocahontas Myth (Powhatan Renape Nation)
        --versus some of the stereotypes in Disney's 1995 Pocahontas

bent arrow"Crazy Horse wins - again" (David Melmer/Indian Country Today)
        --specifics on Stroh's 2001 apology to the Crazy Horse estate for Crazy Horse Malt Liquor

bent arrowWood Sculpture (Adobe Trading Post)
        --"Cigar Store Indians: Custom Orders Accepted"—à la Kaw-Liga!

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Educational Films

bent arrowWhite Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men video guide (Larry J. Zimmerman)
[Film citation:] White Shamans & Plastic Medicine Men. Dir. Terry Macy and Daniel Hart. Native Voices Public Television, 1995.
        --The great glory of this film is the ironic hilarity created by the white practitioners' blithe unconsciousness
        of how foolish they would eventually look in the context of the movie as final product.

bent arrowIn Whose Honor? Indian Mascots in Sports (the film's official web site)
[Film citation:] In Whose Honor? Indian Mascots in Sports. Dir. Jay Rosenstein. New Day Films, 1997.
        --the "definitive," award-winning treatment on the subject from a Native perspective, with an emphasis on the Fighting Illini mascot

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More TUNES

bent arrow"Rain-in-the-Face" (from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at UC Santa Barbara)
        --a 1908 slap-happy popular tune that reduced one of the greatest Lakota warriors to a laughable drunk, the dominant trope
        connoting that the "rain" is actually "firewater" . . . (Both .mp3 and .wav files are available for your delight and edification; and
        unless the original cylinder was really scratched up, it's also gotta be the worst horse-hooves sound effect in history.)

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Custer: the Man, the Myth, the Music . . . the Video Game

bent arrowCuster's My Life on the Plains (from The Kansas Collection)
        --including his murder of 875 Cheyenne horses

bent arrow"Mascots continue to demean Natives" (Editorial by Jodi Rave)
        --including specifics regarding a 1982 video game called "Custer's Revenge"

bent arrow"Gary Owen" ("Garryowen") (Songs of Ireland)
        --MIDI version of the tune that Custer's 7th Cavalry played as they went into battle

bent arrow7th Ranch RV Camp & Historical Tours: "Where Horses & History Come Together" (Garryowen, MT)
        --the "myth lives on," at such a tourist trap. . . .

    More Dead Horses

bent arrowHorse Slaughter Camp (Spokane Outdoors [WA])
        --an eerie site, memorializing another slaughter of Indian horses (approx. 800), by Colonel Wright

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Gerald Vizenor

bent arrowGerald Vizenor (Storytellers)
        --pict, brief bio, bibliography, & extensive links for my hero, the Native theorist most eloquent in his musings on the
        "Indian" as postmodern simulation . . .

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