"When these prejudicial stereotypes are applied to First Nations peoples of North America, what is “authentically Indian” becomes submerged and dehumanized by the “colonial mind set,” which promotes a “falsely superior [Anglo-American] ‘we’ versus [Indigenous] ‘them’ perspective.” According to Cornel Pewewardy, “The colonizer’s falsified stories have become universal truths to mainstream society and have reduced indigenous culture to a cartoon caricature. This distorted and manufactured reality is one of the most powerful shackles subjecting Indigenous Peoples. It distorts all indigenous experiences, past and present.” The result is miscommunication, misunderstanding, and “dysconscious racism,” a term for a type of racism that “unconsciously accepts dominant white norms and privileges.” Joyce E. King elaborates: “Dysconscious racism is an uncritical habit of mind (that is, perceptions, attitudes, assumptions and beliefs) that justifies inequity and exploitation by accepting the existing order of things as given. It involves identification with an ideological view point which admits no fundamentally alternative vision of society.” Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann state in their 1967 book, The Social Construction of Reality, “He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definition of reality.” As was discussed in the introduction to the present book, writers, directors, and producers of television shows are primarily Euro-Americans who wield highly influential and enormous sticks."

Sierra S. Adare, “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out
@1 year ago with 40 notes
#Native Ameircan #Amerian Indian #NDN #First Nations #Native Indian #Red Indian #Indian Hat #Stereotypes #Racism 

"Even though we are in the twenty-first century, minorities still continue to face discrimination based on five-hundred-year-old characterizations. It may be a new millennium, but it’s already filled with very old stereotypes about the Indigenous population of this country."

Sierra S. Adare, “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out
@1 year ago with 24 notes
#Native American #Native American #NDN #Stereotypes #Racism #discrimination #Indian Hat #Native Indian #Red Indian 

"Colleagues have often asked me why I am so passionate when it comes to the stereotypical depictions of “Indians” in movies and on TV, and especially in science fiction, since I am, like sever participants in the study, a fan of the [science fiction] genre. It is after all, as my colleagues are quick to point out, fiction. Unfortunately, movie and TV fiction have become accepted as Americas facts (and the world’s for that matter) when it comes to “Indians.” My response is that I am so passionate because these careless and universally accepted stereotypes do damage. Negative “Indian” stereotypes do physical, mental, emotional, and financial harm to First Nations individuals."

Sierra S. Adare, “Indian” Stereotypes In TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out
@1 year ago with 19 notes
#American Indian #Native American #NDN #Native Indian #Indian Hat #Red Indian #First Nations #Stereotypes #Indigenous #Indian #Science Fiction #Indian Stereotypes 

"[Stereotypes] are factually incorrect; they are products of a “faulty” or illogical thought process; they are characterized as inordinate rigidity; they are derived from an inadequate basis of acquisition, such as hearsay they are consensual beliefs within a culture, perhaps implying a lack of individual thought; they serve a rationalization function for ethnic prejudice; they ascribe to racial inheritance that which may be cultural acquisition and they serve as justification for prejudicial or discriminatory social practices."

Sierra S. Adare, “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out
@1 year ago with 230 notes
#Native American #American Indian #NDN #Stereotypes #Racism #Native Indian #Red Indian 

"Granted, certain ceremonies conducted at pow wows are deeply significant to First Nations peoples and are very religious in nature. Pow wows, however, are social gatherings and, unfortunately, the congregation spot for racism in one of its worst forms -the anthropologist. Anthropologists, in broad terms, need not be professionals but simply those who feel they have the right to steal the images of First Nations individuals in any form at any time -the obnoxious photographers who believe they have an absolute entitlement to take anybody’s picture even after the individual tells them no. As Richard Hill, a Mohawk artist, has remarked: “Nearly all Indians have been asked to ‘pose’ for a visitor’s camera, and the visitor leaves with his personal image of ‘real, live Indians.’ …Stories about White photographers entered tribal oral histories and the camera became the latest weapon to be used against Indians…. The camera was an intrusion on Indian life. The photographs were taken for outside interests, by outside people, outside of the needs of Indians themselves."

Sierra S. Adare, “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out
@1 year ago with 55 notes
#Native American #American Indian #First Nations #NDN #Native Indian #Red Indian #Stereotyping #cameras #pow wow #anthropologist #photography 

soooooo Reality Check! Indian Images is BACK!

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@1 year ago with 3 notes
#Native American #American Indian #NDN #Indians on TV #Native Indian #Indian #Native #First Nations #Metis #Inuit 
"When these prejudicial stereotypes are applied to First Nations peoples of North America, what is “authentically Indian” becomes submerged and dehumanized by the “colonial mind set,” which promotes a “falsely superior [Anglo-American] ‘we’ versus [Indigenous] ‘them’ perspective.” According to Cornel Pewewardy, “The colonizer’s falsified stories have become universal truths to mainstream society and have reduced indigenous culture to a cartoon caricature. This distorted and manufactured reality is one of the most powerful shackles subjecting Indigenous Peoples. It distorts all indigenous experiences, past and present.” The result is miscommunication, misunderstanding, and “dysconscious racism,” a term for a type of racism that “unconsciously accepts dominant white norms and privileges.” Joyce E. King elaborates: “Dysconscious racism is an uncritical habit of mind (that is, perceptions, attitudes, assumptions and beliefs) that justifies inequity and exploitation by accepting the existing order of things as given. It involves identification with an ideological view point which admits no fundamentally alternative vision of society.” Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann state in their 1967 book, The Social Construction of Reality, “He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definition of reality.” As was discussed in the introduction to the present book, writers, directors, and producers of television shows are primarily Euro-Americans who wield highly influential and enormous sticks."
Sierra S. Adare, “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out
1 year ago
#Native Ameircan #Amerian Indian #NDN #First Nations #Native Indian #Red Indian #Indian Hat #Stereotypes #Racism 
"[Stereotypes] are factually incorrect; they are products of a “faulty” or illogical thought process; they are characterized as inordinate rigidity; they are derived from an inadequate basis of acquisition, such as hearsay they are consensual beliefs within a culture, perhaps implying a lack of individual thought; they serve a rationalization function for ethnic prejudice; they ascribe to racial inheritance that which may be cultural acquisition and they serve as justification for prejudicial or discriminatory social practices."
Sierra S. Adare, “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out
1 year ago
#Native American #American Indian #NDN #Stereotypes #Racism #Native Indian #Red Indian 
"Even though we are in the twenty-first century, minorities still continue to face discrimination based on five-hundred-year-old characterizations. It may be a new millennium, but it’s already filled with very old stereotypes about the Indigenous population of this country."
Sierra S. Adare, “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out
1 year ago
#Native American #Native American #NDN #Stereotypes #Racism #discrimination #Indian Hat #Native Indian #Red Indian 
"Granted, certain ceremonies conducted at pow wows are deeply significant to First Nations peoples and are very religious in nature. Pow wows, however, are social gatherings and, unfortunately, the congregation spot for racism in one of its worst forms -the anthropologist. Anthropologists, in broad terms, need not be professionals but simply those who feel they have the right to steal the images of First Nations individuals in any form at any time -the obnoxious photographers who believe they have an absolute entitlement to take anybody’s picture even after the individual tells them no. As Richard Hill, a Mohawk artist, has remarked: “Nearly all Indians have been asked to ‘pose’ for a visitor’s camera, and the visitor leaves with his personal image of ‘real, live Indians.’ …Stories about White photographers entered tribal oral histories and the camera became the latest weapon to be used against Indians…. The camera was an intrusion on Indian life. The photographs were taken for outside interests, by outside people, outside of the needs of Indians themselves."
Sierra S. Adare, “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out
1 year ago
#Native American #American Indian #First Nations #NDN #Native Indian #Red Indian #Stereotyping #cameras #pow wow #anthropologist #photography 
"Colleagues have often asked me why I am so passionate when it comes to the stereotypical depictions of “Indians” in movies and on TV, and especially in science fiction, since I am, like sever participants in the study, a fan of the [science fiction] genre. It is after all, as my colleagues are quick to point out, fiction. Unfortunately, movie and TV fiction have become accepted as Americas facts (and the world’s for that matter) when it comes to “Indians.” My response is that I am so passionate because these careless and universally accepted stereotypes do damage. Negative “Indian” stereotypes do physical, mental, emotional, and financial harm to First Nations individuals."
Sierra S. Adare, “Indian” Stereotypes In TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out
1 year ago
#American Indian #Native American #NDN #Native Indian #Indian Hat #Red Indian #First Nations #Stereotypes #Indigenous #Indian #Science Fiction #Indian Stereotypes 
soooooo Reality Check! Indian Images is BACK!

Here to bring you more resources to help you learn and help educate others about Native Americans, cultural appropriation, and the myriad of issues that are on going in our communities.

1 year ago
#Native American #American Indian #NDN #Indians on TV #Native Indian #Indian #Native #First Nations #Metis #Inuit