teaching approaches

Question 1

trope analysis

Answer 1

investigate a trope in multiple films; options include the maiden, the vanishing indian, the squaw, the hag, the noble savage protector, the mixed-race indian, the white going native

Question 2

relevant periods of native history

Answer 2

assimilation (1860-1920, failed, government-led); reorganization (1928-1945, Indian New Deal that reversed assimilation policies and gave them economic rights to self-sufficiency and governance); termination (1945-1963, restored assimilation policies and citizenship efforts, eliminated BIA funding and self-governing rights); self-determination (1963-now, restored sovereignty)

Question 3

what would be revealed by archival approaches

Answer 3

memoir of Red Wing starting at the infamous Carlisle Boarding School, how she became a celebrity and profiled by Price, her last role in DeMille’s Squaw Man, and her transition into activism; description of Young Deer’s career in Smith (2003) and Deloria, how he became a director with his own studio for New York Motion Picture Company, worked with building sets from Buffalo Bill’s shows, organized with BIA to get better representation for natives, his participation in a parade float presenting natives as college graduates, all of this contained by the problematic melodramas he was often forced to make, so auteur theory here would help and fail