Native American Film outside the Margins of Filmmaking

Nonfiction productions did not stop being made; in fact, greater attention is being given to contemporary stories focused on community, such as Waterbuster (2006) by J. Carlos Pienado (Mandan- Hidatsa), who returns to his ancestral homeland in the upper Missouri River basin in North Dakota and docum...

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Published in:Great plains quarterly 2014-10, Vol.34 (4), p.387-393
Main Author: SINGER, BEVERLY R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Aesthetic Education
Alexie, Sherman (1966- )
Audiences
Diabetes
Eskimo Aleut Languages
Eskimos
Fiction
Film Production
Inuit
Meetings
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion picture festivals
Native North Americans
Native peoples
Navajo
Professional Training
REVIEW ESSAY
River basins
Summer Programs
Teaching Methods
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Summary:Nonfiction productions did not stop being made; in fact, greater attention is being given to contemporary stories focused on community, such as Waterbuster (2006) by J. Carlos Pienado (Mandan- Hidatsa), who returns to his ancestral homeland in the upper Missouri River basin in North Dakota and documents the devastating impact of the Garrison Dam project, constructed in the 1950s, that submerged 156,000 acres of fertile Mandan-Hidatsa land. [...]frybread is a foreign import into Indian Country by a federal government that wanted us to die.
ISSN:0275-7664
2333-5092
2333-5092
DOI:10.1353/gpq.2014.0082