#1283 Native (Mis)Representation
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 85 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)
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- 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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone. What I have for you today is a rerun episode lovingly chosen from the archives |
| 0:06.7 | for its content and timeliness. Obviously as everyone is concerned with and consumed by in this |
| 0:15.2 | trying time, our nation is being torn a sunder by the vicious mindless cancellation of Dr. Sous. |
| 0:25.6 | And since I need to take some time off to do frankly like boring administrative stuff to help keep the show running, |
| 0:34.3 | I need to take a little time off and thought why don't I play my episode about the importance of |
| 0:42.2 | representation for those who was interested in having thoughtful nuanced conversations rather than |
| 0:48.6 | screaming and screeds about the coming book burnings and cancel culture gone wild. Today's |
| 0:55.6 | episode is largely focused on representation with a focus on native peoples, but the lessons learned |
| 1:02.2 | herein are widely applicable elsewhere. But in the meantime, we had a bonus show that we did with |
| 1:09.8 | the team here, Amanda, Aaron, Dionne. We all got together and discussed a lot of interesting things. |
| 1:17.2 | I got to say, there's a curiously specific brand of republicanism that is wielded by doctors, |
| 1:29.5 | republican doctors are very unique brand and they wield a very specific and insidious form of |
| 1:37.6 | racism among other things, but a lot of racism. So we talked about that and how that ties into the |
| 1:43.6 | debaland confirmation hearings, which sort of brings all these topics together, native people, |
| 1:49.3 | representation, and a special brand of republican doctor racism. And then finally, we do talk a decent |
| 1:57.4 | amount focusing mostly on the thoughtful and nuanced side of the doctor's suits controversy and |
| 2:03.8 | bring in yet another instance. Would you believe that there's another wildly beloved worldwide famous |
| 2:14.0 | cartoon artist who also has deep, troublingly racist artwork in their archives? Well, it's true. |
| 2:24.6 | So we bring that into the conversation and solve once and for all how to deal with these scenarios. |
| 2:30.8 | So members will be enjoying that bonus episode soon as soon as I get edited and posted and for |
| 2:38.7 | everyone else, enjoy today's re-run. This program is made possible by members and donors, so a |
| 2:46.0 | huge thanks to everyone who contributes on Patreon to support the show. And now welcome to this |
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