#1283 Native (Mis)Representation (Native Peoples Series Part 5) (Repost)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 6–21-2019
Today we take a look at the ways that Native Peoples are represented in white society and pop culture, how some are working to take back their own narratives and some insight into the profound effects, both positive and negative, of how peoples are represented.
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SHOW NOTES
The Washington Post conducts a flawed survey resulting in a misleading conclusion that most native peoples don't consider Redskins to be an offensive term
Racist representation of native peoples in sports and culture supports the anti-native sentiment that drives the MMIWG epidemic
Ch. 3: A Native perspective for museums - Native America Calling - Air Date 4-9-19
Native peoples have had their stories told form them by white people for centuries, working in museums and cultural centers create the opportunities to tell their own stories
W Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu step in a pile of native cultural appropriation and then slowly, messily wade their way out of it
Discussing cultural appropriation in many forms including the legal trademarking of one of the terms most central to native Hawaiian culture, Aloha
Ch. 6: 'Reel' Indians and the invention of Hollywood Indian English - Backstory - Air Date 11-22-14
A history lesson on the Hollywood creation of all of the stereotypes we reflexively think of when we think about how native peoples speak
Ch. 7: On Native American Loss and Triumph - On the Media - Air Date 10-5-18
David Treuer discusses the means by which Indians have been fighting for social and political change for centuries.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 8: Changed my mind in favor of impeachment - Nick from California
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 9: Final comments on the Canadian TV show “First Contact” and what it teaches us about how people do and don’t change their mind
EDUCATE YOURSELF & SHARE
Native American imagery is all around us, while the people are often forgotten (National Geographic)
The Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women Epidemic Is Inseparable From Native Appropriation(Bustle)
‘It’s called a genocide’: Gavin Newsom apologizes to California’s Native Americans (San Francisco Chronicle)
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions):
- Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
- Turning to You - Landsman Duets
- Vibrant Canopy - Origami
- Homegrown - The Pine Barrens
- Wingspan - Bayou Birds
- Interlude - The Nocturne
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by members and donors, so a huge thanks to everyone who |
| 0:07.2 | contributes on Patreon to support the show. |
| 0:10.2 | And now welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, which is the fifth |
| 0:15.3 | in a series I started back in October of last year. |
| 0:18.9 | I didn't bother to mention at the time that it was a series that I was beginning, but |
| 0:23.1 | it went in more or less chronological order for a while. |
| 0:26.6 | Right 1216 was on why Columbus Day is terrible. |
| 0:31.1 | Episode 1230 is about why thanks giving this terrible if you try to pretend that it's |
| 0:36.4 | about natives and pilgrims getting along. |
| 0:38.9 | It's still fine if you just want to hang out with your family and eat. |
| 0:42.2 | Number 1252 was about the imperialism of westward expansion. |
| 0:47.0 | Number 1265 started looking at the legacy of oppression experienced by native peoples, |
| 0:51.8 | but also the resilience of those people in the face of that oppression. |
| 0:56.5 | And now today we shall learn about the ways that native people are represented in white |
| 1:01.4 | society and pop culture and get some insights into the profound effects both positive and |
| 1:07.2 | negative of how people are publicly represented. |
| 1:10.8 | Clips Today come from Counter-Spin, Let's Talk Native, Native America Calling, Politically |
| 1:16.4 | Reactive, Breakdances with Wolves, Backstory and on the Media. |
| 1:27.4 | New poll finds 9 and 10 Native Americans aren't offended by Redskins name. |
| 1:32.8 | Was the front page story in the Washington Post May 19, based on a survey the paper |
| 1:38.0 | conducted. |
| 1:39.5 | Thing number 1, the team's hometown paper had to say, quote, the results immediately |
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