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Imagining Indians (1992)

Imagining Indians poster
Directed by
Duwawisioma
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
57 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary interviews Indigenous Native American actors and extras about how Hollywood films have misrepresented their culture and traditions.

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What happens

Imagining Indians is a 1992 documentary film produced and directed by Hopi filmmaker, Victor Masayesva, Jr. The documentary attempts to reveal the misrepresentation of Indigenous Native American culture and tradition in Classical Hollywood films by interviews with different Indigenous Native American actors and extras from various tribes throughout the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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