First Nations people in film (in progress)

Lesson Schedule

1: The Importance of Representation

2-4: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

Concept and Importance of Representation. Reel Injun chapter 1 (“Native Representation”).
Postcolonial Theory (“Derision and Desire”). Reel Injun chapter 2 (“Native Americans from Hollywood to Wounded Knee”; “Birth of the Hollywood Indian”). Assignment: Comparison of Pocahontas, The New World, and Avatar).
Stereotypes. Reel Injun chapter 4 (“Tonto Speech and Stereotypes”; “The Savage Injun”).
Reel Injun chapter 6 (“Indians or Human Beings?”; “A Good Injun…Is it a Dead Injun?”).
Reel Injun chapter 7 (“The American Indian Movement”; “The Groovy Injun”).
Reel Injun chapter 8 (“The Renaissance”).
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. Assignment: Main characters of Atanarjuat
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (continued). Choose essay topic on Atanarjuat.
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (continued). Write introduction paragraph on Atanarjuat.
Work on Atanarjuat essays.