WHITE SHAMANS AND PLASTIC MEDICINE MEN , Part 1 of 3. [Dir. Terry Macy and Daniel Hart, Native Voices, 1995]
"White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men is a documentary dealing with the popularization and commercialization of Native American spiritual traditions by Non-Indians. Important questions are asked of those seeking to exploit ritual and sacred ceremony and of those vested with safeguarding sacred ways. This documentary is thematically organized, and deals with romantic stereotypes and copying, the impatience of new age practitioners contrasted to the fact that indigenous spiritual traditions are thousands of years old, and the proselytizing nature of these new age practitioners. The film represents a wide range of voices from several native communities, and speaks to issues of cultural appropriation with humor, righteous anger, and thoughtful insight."
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WHITE SHAMANS AND PLASTIC MEDICINE MEN , Part 2 of 3.
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RUNNING ON THE EDGE OF THE RAINBOW:
Laguna Stories and Poems : video (incl. transcript) w/ & about Leslie Marmon Silko (University of Arizona Radio-TV-Film Bureau, 1978)
Keep America Beautiful PSA (the "Crying Indian")—Earth Day, 1971
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THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON :
excerpt from the "classic Western" (1941), highlighting Custer's favorite tune (& 7th Cavalry battle song!), the jig-ish
Irish drinking ditty, "Garry Owen." [embedding disabled]