Lesson Schedule
1: The Importance of Representation
2-4: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Extended Lesson Schedule (not for spring 2015):
- 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.
Reel Injun
Stereotypical Representations
Salvage ethnography
Cowboys & Indians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii_7QnXPQxA Tonto (The Lone Ranger)
Anti-Westerns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc8NMbrW7mI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaQeVnN6pUc
Pocahontas Stories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j5mlTDqkYk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdxXPV9GNQ
The New Native Cinema
Smoke Signals Anatarjuat: The Fast Runner Shi-Shi Etko CBQM