Saturday, June 18, 2011
Quotable: Descendants of Tribes
They were, in a way, trying to imitate us [in film representations of Indians] but in another way they were trying to remember who they were. Every human being is a descendant of a tribe. So, these White people, they're the descendants of tribes, there was a time in their ancestry when they wore feathers, all right? And they wore beads and shells. There was a time in their ancestry, all right, before this colonizing mentality came and did to them, to turn them into the White people they are, and then it came and did it to us. The very same thing that happened to us happened to them.
Source: John Trudell, Lakota activist/poet in Reel Injun (Rezolution Pictures & the National Film Board of Canada, 2009)
See also:
Source: John Trudell, Lakota activist/poet in Reel Injun (Rezolution Pictures & the National Film Board of Canada, 2009)
See also:
- Indians at home – Indians in Cornwall, Indians in Wales, Indians in Ireland
- Skins & Fighting for Uncle Scum
- Quotable: "We believe in America"
- The "lower class" as Indians (and vice versa)
- Beads & Shells
Labels: art and literature, Empire, Hollywood, identity, Indians, White folks
