Native Apparitions: Critical Perspectives on Hollywood’s Indians

He was the author of many books, including Navajo and the Animal People: Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnozoology. Tom Holm, an enrolled Cherokee and a Creek descendant, is professor emeritus of American Indian studies at the University of Arizona. Steve Pavlik was an instructor at Northwest Indian Colleg

Elise Marubbio Steve Pavlik Rose Roberts Myrton Running Wolf Richard M.   Using an American Indian studies framework, Native Apparitions deftly illustrates the connection between Hollywood’s representations of Native peoples and broader sociopolitical and historical contexts connected to colonialism, racism, and the Western worldview. But more than a critique of stereotypes, this book is a timely call for scholarly activism engaged in Indigenous media sovereignty.  Native Apparitions offers a critical intervention and response to Hollywood’s representations of Native peoples in film, from historical works by director John Ford to more contemporary works, such as Apocalypto and Avatar. CONTRIBUTORS Chadwick Allen Richard Allen Joanna Hearne Tom Holm Jan-Christopher Horak Jacqueline Land Andrew Okpeaha MacLean M. While the Cherokee language recognizes that movies are not reality, Western audiences may on some level assume that film portrayals offer sincere depictions of imagined possibilities, creating a logic where what is projected must in part

Elise Marubbio is an associate professor of American Indian Studies and the director of the Augsburg Native American Film Series at Augsburg College. He was the author of many books, including Navajo and the Animal People: Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnozoology. About the AuthorSteve Pavlik was an instructor at Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, Washington. His publications include Anadarko, The Osage Rose, Code Talkers and Warriors: Native Americans and World War II, T