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Talking about how… our elders' words are homogenized
through anthropology and… um, texts,
which is a form of… mining or feeding upon our culture and then legitimizing it
through institution, not legitimizing those elders
that they took the knowledge from as holding knowledge themselves
in that same space
through anthropology and… um, texts,
which is a form of… mining or feeding upon our culture and then legitimizing it
through institution, not legitimizing those elders
that they took the knowledge from as holding knowledge themselves
in that same space
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Talking about how…
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our elders' words are homogenized
through anthropology and…
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um, texts,
which is a form of… mining
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or feeding upon our culture
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and then legitimizing it
through institution,
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not legitimizing those elders
that they took the knowledge from
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as holding knowledge themselves
in that same space.
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Movie Summary
Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo follows Native artists for a year as they navigate their careers in the US and abroad. The film explores the immense complexities each artist faces concerning their own identity as Native artists, as well as pushing further Native art into a post-colonial world.