Inventing the Indian

Inventing the Indian is a 2012 BBC documentary first broadcast on 28 October on BBC 4,[1] exploring the stereotypical view of Native Americans in the United States in cinema and literature.[2]

Inventing the Indian
Directed byChris Cottam
StarringRich Hall
Dallas Goldtooth
Country of originUK
Original language(s)English
Production
Producer(s)John McCormack
Running time1:30:00
Production company(s)BBC
Release
Original release2012

Presented by Rich Hall and Dallas Goldtooth, a Native American, it uncovers myths about the American Indian and how they live currently. Hall looks at films including Soldier Blue, Stagecoach and A Man Called Horse, and books including The Last of the Mohicans, Black Elk Speaks and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. It also covered Geronimo and Sitting Bull.[3]

Reception

Hall tore into the way that white people, such as Kevin Costner, insisted on becoming spokespeople for the pain of Native Americans. As the impassioned and conspicuously white Hall repeated the same sin, Dallas Goldtooth, an activist-comedian from the Dakota tribe, shook his head with mock disapproval. The unstated part of the joke was that Hall is said to be part Cherokee.[4]

gollark: There's no literal Cartesian theatre going on where it has to rotate the image again to project it onto our consciousness.
gollark: I don't think that particularly matters. We define our perceptual up and down and such based on vision.
gollark: Also merging together information from saccades (rapid eye movements to look at more of a scene with the fovea) and correcting for orientation/vibrations/movement.
gollark: And the brain does a lot of fancy stuff to pretend to have a coherent visual field despite the blind spot and the fact that only a small region (the fovea) can actually sense color well.
gollark: I read that somewhere, I forgot where.

See also

References
  1. "BBC Four - Rich Hall's Inventing the Indian". Bbc.co.uk. 2016-07-31. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  2. Steve G Patron (2012-11-01). "'Rich Hall's Inventing the Indian' review by Steve G • Letterboxd". Letterboxd.com. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  3. "Review: 'Rich Hall's Inventing the Indian'". Digitaljournal.com. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  4. Anthony, Andrew. "Rewind TV: Brazil with Michael Palin; Rich Hall's Inventing the Indian; Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars; Exposure: Banaz – An Honour Killing – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 October 2016.


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