Engaged Resistance in American Indian Art, Literature and Film

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“…It also illustrates how footage from mainstream news follows a pattern of constructing Indigenous protestors as unreasonable (Anderson & Robertson, 2011) and a broader cultural catalogue can be subverted in the service of a visual counter-narrative. Similarly, Rader (2003) posits that Indigenous artistic production e.g. art, film, literature act as ways to control identity and agency amid the pressures of colonizing forces to assimilate.…”

“…art, film, literature act as ways to control identity and agency amid the pressures of colonizing forces to assimilate. Rader (2003) argues, inventive use of the lyric poem, the collage, and the movie [by Indigenous practitioners] transforms both public and private discourses and allows them not only to counter prevailing establishments of identity but also to tell who they are in their own languages. They resist cultural erasure by attacking those armaments designed to annihilate their ability to speak themselves into being.…”