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Day 31 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

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This slide contains one image of the 1491s, a sketch comedy group. The photo is black and white and is taken from above. The five men are laying on the ground in a circle with their heads touching in the center. They are outside and the ground is covered in brown leaves. It is a chilly autumn day. Two are wearing glasses, one is wearing a beanie, one is in a suit and tie. They are all smiling. Their logo is to the left of the photo. It is a white arrow that is bent into a circle around 1491s also in white on a black background.

Day 30 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one image of the American Indian Dance Theatre. It is three images of the same dancer mid-leap holding a small hoop. He is wearing a beaded tunic made of blue with red and yellow beads, fringed leggings, and moccasins. His hair is black and worn in two braids. He looks very athletic.

This slide contains one image of California's American Indian and Indigenous Film Festival logo. In the white background is a single grey feather. On top of that is the silhouette of a film strip showing three individual frames. The words American, Indian, & Indigenous are in red, all caps, positioned individually inside the three frames. California's on the top of the film strip to the left of the feather and Film Festival is underneath the film strip to the right of the feather.

Day 29 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one photo of the movie poster advertising Prey, a movie in the Predator franchise. In the poster you can see the Predator coming out of the mist in the background with one red eye shining in the dark. In the foreground is a Comanche warrior with a tomahawk raised in defense. The title of the movie is in grey all caps lettering at the bottom of the poster with the words "Original film Aug 5 only on Hulu." At the top of the poster is "from the director of 10 Cloverfield Lane".

This slide has one photo from the yet to be released movie Unbroken Code. The main image is of American WW 2 soldiers with their guns. The one in the foreground is lying on the ground, the two in the background are walking away from the man on the ground. The photo has been tinted with sepia and looks old and brownish. The title of the film is in all caps and at the top above the title it says "By Navajo filmmaker Kody Dayish".

Day 28 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one photo of Wes Studi holding up his honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. He is wearing a white shirt with a blue bow tie under a navy blue western cut suit that has embroidered lapels and collar.

This slide contains one photo of Parole, a western set on a reservation. Edward Chee is the main character and in the photo he is on his horse outside on the farm. You can see his house in the background. His horse is brown with a white stripe down its nose. Edward is wearing a white t-shirt under a blue shirt long sleeved shirt and blue vest with a brown leather jacket and a black felt cowboy hat and boots.

Day 27 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide features one photo of the advertising poster for Resident Alien on Netflix. The photo is of Harry, played by Alan Tudyk, getting into his old red truck with a goofy look on his face. Harry is wearing a green down jacket with a sheepskin collar. In the window, you can see his reflection which is of an alien face. Behind the truck you can see the buildings of Patience Colorado on Main Street. The title of the show is written in white lower case letters at the bottom of the poster. Underneath that is the original air date Jan 27 at 10pm on SyFy network.

This slide contains one image of the founders of Kody Dayish Productions: Kody, his bother Kolin, and their sister Kollete, who is standing in the middle of her two brothers. They all have serious intense looks on their faces, long black hair, dark skin and eyes. Kollete is wearing a chunky turquoise necklace and ring. Kody is wearing a black and white bandana with turquoise beads and a black shirt and jacket. Kolin is also wearing a black shirt with a beaded necklace. They look like they are posing for a heavy metal album cover.

Day 26 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one photo from the tv series Reservation Dogs. It features the four lead characters, who are Native teenagers that live on the Rez, dressed up as the characters from the Quentin Tarantino movie Resevoir Dogs, in black suits, white shirts, and ties. The four teenagers are two girls--Willie Jack and Elora Dannon, and two boys--Bear and Cheese.

This slide contains one photo of the advertisting poster for the TV series Rutherford Falls. It is a collage of several images: The town square which features a life sized monument of the town's founder with a big colonial building in the background on one side and a tree on the other side. The sky is blue but the white clouds have been drawn on top of the sky, making the scene look like a children's pop up book. In the foreground are the two main characters, Nathan Rutherford, a white man who is a direct descendant of the town's founder sitting on the left hand side of the statue with his arms and legs crossed. He is wearing jeans and a t shirt with a sport coat and brown lace up shoes. He looks obstinate. On the right hand side of the statue is Reagan, an educated Native woman who runs the cultural center for the fictional Minishonka Nation. She is wearing a grey knee length dress with a black blazer and turquoise necklace with brown lace up boots. She has long dark hair and dangly earrings. Her posture is more open and welcoming and she is smiling. Nathan is sitting on and Regan is leaning against a giant history book that is open to the middle. The Peacock logo and date that it started streaming is underneath the book and between their feet at the bottom of the poster. The title of the show, Rutherford Falls is written in block letters that form an arch above the statue with the names of the two stars underneath (Ed Helms and Jana Schmieding) with the legend "A Peacock Original" in white letters above. The tag line "The past keeps popping up" is above the tree directly over Reagan's head.

This slide contains one photo from the press junket for Yellowstone. In the photo are the two lead Native actors Mo Brings Plenty and Gil Birmingham, who are standing next to each other with their hands in the pockets and smiling broadly. Mo wears his long hair in two braids. He is wearing jeans and a Stetson with cowboy boots, a light blue dress shirt, open at the collar, under a black sport coat. He has accessorized his outfit with a beaded necklace and a large western belt buckle. Gil has short black hair, and wears khaki pants with a printed colorful dress shirt under a black vest and sport coat and dress shoes. They are standing on a red carpet in front of a light orange background that features a repeating pattern of the logos for Yellowstone in all caps and Paramount + in cursive.

This slide contains one photo of Graham Greene who plays Spotted Eagle in the prequel series to Yellowstone, 1883. Spotted Eagle is a Crow elder. He has long grey hair worn in two braids, a leather fringed tunic and many yellow beaded necklaces. He has a feathered ornament in his hair.

Day 24 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one image of the revival of Black Elk Speaks. Doug Good Feather plays Black Elk. He is wearing a modern black suit with a white shirt and is addressing the audience directly. He is standing on a stage that has been designed to look like a rocky outdoor scene with American flag waving in the background. Behind Black Elk are two actors dressed as early pioneers in buckskin clothing. In the foreground is a child with her hair in two braids wearing a blue shirt who is sitting on the ground listening to Black Elk speak.

This slide contains one image of the green highway sign that says, "Entering Wind River Indian Reservation". In the background are snowy mountains and a white sky.

Day 23 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide features three images. The top one is of Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass and Grace Dove as his Pawnee wife. It is an exterior scene and they are leaned in towards each other with their foreheads touching. The next photo is of Hawk, their son, played by Forest Goodluck. He has just emerged from a forest and is wading across a river that is knee deep and very cold. He is wearing clothing made of leather and fur with a cape. His expression is wary as if he is being hunted. The last photo is of Powakwa, played by Melaw Nakeh'ko, a kidnapped Arikawa woman. She is also dressed warmly in a huge leather cape with a fur collar. She is standing in front of a mountain and looking pensive.

This slide contains two photos from The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. The top photo is of a supporting character Jacqueline White, played by Jane Krakowski. She has gone home to visit her parents and we find out that her parents are Native American. In the photo Jackie has pale skin and bleach blonde hair with dark roots. She is saying "If you want to get anywhere, you have to be blonde and white." Her Lakota parents have long black hair and dark skin and are saying, "But you're an Indian, Jackie Lynn." In the second photo, Jackie is sitting in between her parents watching football. They are all wearing maroon and gold Washington Redskins merch: jerseys, t-shirts, beanies, and badges. Execept, the Washington Redskins have changed their name to the Washington Gun-Takers, because Jackie's parents have led a protest against the Redskins name being racist so the team changed their name to sell more merch to protesters who were only buying it to burn it.

Day 22 of Native American Representation Matters siides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one image of the poster advertising The Fast Runner. The main image is of Atanarjuat (the fast runner) and his wife Atuat. Atanarjuat has his right hand on his wife's cheek. She is looking up at him but he is looking down, feeling ashamed. It is a sad scene. The image is superimposed on a exterior scene where Atuanarjuat is naked and running across the ice, fleeing for his life at dawn. Separating the two images is the review, "Two thumbs up!" The title of the film is in white all caps at the top of the poster.

This slide contains one image from the movie Windtalkers. The scene is of the Navajo men wearing their WW 2 army uniforms, sitting at tables working on codes. The two men in the front row are the main characters played by Adam Beach as Ben and Roger Willie as Charlie. Ben is leaning over to speak to Roger; they are both smiling as if Ben has just told a joke.

Day 21 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains on photo of Chris Eyre. He has long black hair pulled back in a low ponytail, with dark arched eyebrows and a round face with full lips. He is wearing a grey dress shirt that is open at the collar.

This slide contains one photo from Smoke Signals, starring Even Adams as Thomas and Adam Beach as Victor. Thomas is wearing a graphic purple t shirt that says Fry Bread in orange letters on a yellow background. Victor is wearing an orange and blue paid pearl snap shirt. Both boys have long black hair. Thomas wears glasses.

Day 20 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains two images of the poster advertising Incident at Ogala and Thunderheart. Two films made by the same director, the first is a documentary, the second is a fictionalized version of the same event but written as a detective story. Thunderheart stars Graham Greene and Val Kilmer as two detectives investigating a murder on a reservation.

This slide contains one image of Ned Romero as Black Elk. The photo is in black and white. He has long grey hair worn in two braids, a white collared shirt and dark jacket. No tie. His face is lined and weathered.

Day 19 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one photo of the top half of the DVD collection of Northern Exposure the complete series. It is in red lettering against a background of sky with a few puffy white clouds.

This slide contains six photos from Dances with Wolves, of the Native cast: Graham Green, Tantoo Cardinal, Floyd Westerman, Rodney Grant, Steeve Reevis, and Wes Studi. Everyone except Wes is dressed as a Lakota tribe member while Wes plays a Pawnee tribe member.

day 18 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains two images from the movie Emerald Forest. The top photo is of the men of the Invisible People tribe. They wear chunky gold necklaces and green face paint. They ahve long black hair and dark skin. The bottom photo is of the women of the Invisible People tribe. They wear flowers in their hair and also wear long gold chain necklaces. They have just a one or two thin lines of green facepaint.

This slide contains one photo from the 1986 production of The Rez Sisters, about 7 Indigenous Candaian women living on a reservation. They are sitting on a platform onstage as if they are driving in a minivan with three in the front, two in the middle, and two in the back.

Day 17 of Ntive American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one photo of the Folger Theatre production of Black Elk Speaks. The image is of Clayton Corbin, a Black actor, playing Black Elk. He is wearing a long black straight wig that has two braids in the front. He wears a flannel long sleeved shirt with leather fringed pants and a loincloth. He carries a peace pipe that has three feathers on it. He wears a necklace made out of bones and a brown leather vest.

This slide contains one image of the DVD cover for Windwalker. It stars an English actor, Trevor Howard, as Windwalker, but the rest of the cast was Native American. Windwalker has grey hair and is looking up with a light shining down on his face. The title of the movie is above him in yellow letters.

Day 16 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one black and white photo of Luther Standing Bear, who started the Indian Actors Association. The photo was probably taken in 1928 when he was 60. He is in profile and has shoulder length hair. He is dressed in a western style suit with a bow tie. His face is aged.

This slide features four photos of Atahualpa, the Incan King. The first photo is a portrait of him painted in 1533. He is in profile and has long black hair. He wears a golden hat with two black feathers, a golden tunic, and a grey, probably wool blanket worn as a cape and is holding a gold staff. The other three photos are of the white men cast as Atahualpa in the play Royal Hunt of the Sun. The first is a photo of Rober Graham Stephens, the English actor. It is a close up of his face in his makeup. He has black hair, dark skin, and a lot of "Egyptian" eye makeup. He wears a chunky gold necklace over a woven tunic. The second photo is of American actor David Carradine as Atahualpa, in a scene with Pizarro. Pizzaro is in full plate armour while Atahualpa is barefoot, wearing a simple long tunic with a gold belt and gold earrings. The last. The last photo is from the movie version with Canadian actor, Christopher Plummer, as Atahualpa. He is wearing nothing but a loincloth and a lot of body makeup to make him look dark skinned. He is standing in front of this throne which is carved out of stone.

Day 15 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains three images of Chief John Big Tree, the first Native American actor. The first image is of his face on the Buffalo nickle. He is in profile with two feathers in his hair which is braided . The nickle is dated 1935. The next image is of a bronze sculpture titled End of the Trail and it is of him on a horse with a spear. Both he and the horse are drooping in exhaustion and perhaps defeat. The largest image is a close up of his face in black and white. He is in his seventies. He has large, dark eyes, no facial hair, and almost no eyebrows to speak of. His face is deeply lined. He looks questioning and somber.

This slide contains one image of the poster advertising the movie Nanook of the North. It has a cream background with the title at the bottom in red all cap lettering. The subtitle is underneath and reads, "A Story of Life and Love in the Actual Arctic". Above the title is three inset drawings of Nanook and his wife and children. They are framed against a blue background with two on top and one underneath. Nanook is on the right, his wife Nyla, and infant son are on the left and his older son is underneath. Next to his son is a drawing of a wolf who is in mid attack.

Day 14 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one image from the 2015 movie Pan showing Tiger Lily and her tribe. Tiger Lily is played by white actress Rooney Mara where the rest of her "tribe" are played by indigenous people from different races and ethnicities.

This slide contains one image not from the Canadian Shakespeare Festival production of Peter Pan, but rather from an ancient Greek mosaic depicting the mythical Amazon warriors, a race of women who fought bare-breasted and were superb archers. I chose this image because I couldn't find any photos of the actual Amazon costumes from the production.

Day 13 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one photo of the original production of Peter Pan in London in 1904. Miriam Nesbitt, an American woman, plays Tiger Lily, the Princess of the Picaninny Tribe. She is dressed in a long sleeved buckskin dress with fring around the collar and wears several necklaces made of shells. Her hair is worn in two braids and parted down the center. Seh wears one dark feather in her hair. She is holding a tomahawk in her right hand and is leaning on a large boulder. She is looking off to the left, warily as if she is sneaking up on someone to attack them.

This slide contains four more examples of women who played Tiger Lily. A Chinese woman, Anna May Wong played her in the 1924 silent film and and an Argentinian woman, Maria Pogee played her in the 1979 Broadway musical. In 2003, Carsen Gray of the Haida tribe in Canada played her in the film and in Neverland in 2011 Q'orianka Kilcher of the Quechua-Huachipaeri tribe played her.

Day 12 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains 5 photos from the Twilight saga of the Quileute tribe who are the werewolves in the movies. Jacob is played by Taylor Lautner from Shark Boy and Lava Girl, and Harry Clearwater is played by Graham Greene. The real life Quileute tribe gave no permission for Stephanie Meyer to use their history & culture in her books or the films, and received no monetary compensation.

Day 11 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy. The Twilight slide is a continuation of the Magical Indian trope.

This slide contains 3 examples of Hollywood Indians from F-Troop and Gilligan's Island. In two episodes of Gilligan's Island, the natives are wearing "war paint", grass skirts, and built a totem pole. In F-Troop, which is set after the civil war in a military fort, all the fictional Hekawi tribe members are played by Jews. They have a "Playbrave Club" with Go Go dancers.

This slide contains 8 photos from movies and TV shows that depict the Magical Indian trope. Those shows are The Howling, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Little Big Man, Walker Texas Ranger, Desert Heat, The Lone Ranger with Jonny Depp playing Tonto, and the first Wonder Woman movie.

Day 10 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy. Remember that these are tropes, the bad examples. Go back to yesterday's post to read the explanations.

This slide contains 4 examples of the Noble Savage trope: Tonto from The Lone Ranger, Kicking Bird in Dances with Wolves, Chingachook in Last of the Mohicans, and Chief Red Stick in Davy Crockett.

This slide contains 5 photos showing the Indian Maiden trope: Pocahontas from the animated Peter Pan, Pocahontas from the Disney movie Pocahontas which was also animated, Sokanon in the tv series The Frontier with Jason Momoa, Lily Joseph in White Fang 2, and the Indian Wife in Shanghai Noon.

Day 9 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples Month. Enjoy!

This slide contains four photos illustrating the Savage Redskin trope: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Dances with Wolves, Stagecoach, and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Day 8 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one photograph from 1927 of a Hueco grass hut, which housed 10-12 beds. It has a wooden frame and is thatched with grass. It is dome shaped. There are two replicas in Waco that you can see. One is at Cameron Park Zoo in the Brazos River exhibit and the other is at the Mayborn Museum complex in the Natural History exhibit.

This slide contains one photograph from 1912 of a group of Heuco Indians tht were brought back to Waco from Oklahoma for the Cotton Palace Exposition, as an entertainment. White people built the village for them to stay in, which is why you can see tents in the background rather than grass huts. There are 30 people in the photo, a mix of adults and children, males and females. They have tense and uncomfortable expressions in the photo.

Day 7 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one map of Texas showing where the three Indian reservations are: The Ysleta del Sur Pueblo in El Paso, the Kickapoo tribe in South Texas and The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe in East Texas.

Day 6 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This is a map of the United States showing where all the reservations are located and how big they are. Due to map scale constraints, land uits smaller than 23,000 acres are omitted. There are none bigger than that in Texas. The biggest areas of reserved land are in Arizona and South Dakota comes in second place.

This slide contains a map of where the reservations are in Canada. A heavier concentration are in the western provinces, but they are more evenly spread over the entire country than in the US.

Day 5 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples month. Enjoy!

This image is a map of where the native populations lived in Canada and Alaska.

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Day 4 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples Month. Enjoy!

This is a map of Central America showing where all the indigenous tribes lived.

This is a map of North America showing where all the indigenous tribes lived.

Day 3 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples Month. Enjoy!

This slide contains one image of South America from an interactive map link that if you click on it it will show you which tribes were living on that land before it was invaded by Spaniards.

Day 2 of Native American Representation Matters slides for Indigenous Peoples Month. Enjoy!