Indigenous Representation in Cinema

Indigenous people are underrepresented offscreen on film-sets, and misrepresented onscreen. This has always been true in cinema and progress towards proper representation has been incredibly slow. This has effects both on Indigenous people, and how the rest of society views them. It limits career opportunities for Indigenous filmmakers, restricts Indigenous role models on film, and reinforces cultural misunderstandings in society.https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/headandheartprogram_2019/1007/thumbnail.jp

Indigenous Institutional Inclusion

While attending James Cook University (JCU) in Cairns, Australia and researching Arizona University (UA) in Tucson, Arizona, I noticed differences concerning the inclusion of Indigenous representation within their educational institutions.While UA focuses on academic education and community outreach through external concentration, JCU focuses on positive cultural awareness and acts of reconciliation through internal concentration. The influence of colonization in both the United States and Australia contributed to the presence, or lack, of tribal sovereignty in Indigenous communities therefore effecting federal recognition, reconciliation, and government funding which ultimately impacted the school systems

Wide Angle: Eadweard Muybridge, the Pacific Coast, and Trans-Indigenous Representation

Eadweard Muybridge's Pacific Coast photographs provide an important site for investigating Victorian visual practices and their relationship to imperial control. This essay's analysis of critical spatiality engages with the familiar temporal dimension of the "long nineteenth century" through discussions of periodicity and the representation of timescales in nineteenth-century media

Competition for indigenous representation in Venezuelan elections (2004-2010)

Este trabajo examina la participación y el desempeño de los actores que compitieron por los curules reservados a la representación indígena en los comicios celebrados en Venezuela entre 2004 y 2010. La metodología incluye una revisión analítica de legislación electoral y de los datos del Consejo Nacional Electoral sobre los comicios en este periodo. Se pone de manifiesto la existencia de un extraordinario número de actores en la competición (tanto organizaciones y comunidades postulantes como candidatos), principalmente en circunscripciones locales y regionales. Al mismo tiempo, los datos revelan lo limitado de las posibilidades reales de obtención de curules para los participantes, quienes para lograr la victoria electoral dependen absolutamente de la colaboración de los partidos políticos convencionales. También se constata que la polarización política está estimulando el interés de estos partidos (o de los frentes partidistas) por incrementar su influencia efectiva sobre los actores del movimiento indígena que dan el salto a la arena electoral. Esto contribuye a entender por qué los representantes indígenas elegidos en comicios ajustan sus reclamos a lo considerado como aceptable en los partidos políticos convencionales y no a lo planteado (al menos discursivamente) en las organizaciones o comunidades indígenas de las que proceden.This work examines the participation and performance of actors that competed for seats reserved for indigenous representation in Venezuelan elections held between 2004 and 2010. Methodology includes an analytical review of electoral legislation and data from the National Electoral Council about voting during this period, revealing an extraordinary number of actors in the competition (including indigenous organizations and communities postulating as candidates), principally for local and regional constituencies. At the same time, data reveal how limited the real possibilities are for these participants to obtain seats, since they depend absolutely on the collaboration of conventional political parties to achieve victory. The study also shows that political polarization is stimulating the interest of parties (or party alliances) in increasing their effective influence on indigenous movement actors who step into the electoral arena. This contributes to understanding why the elected indigenous representatives adjust their claims according to what is considered acceptable by conventional political parties and not to the proposals maintained (at least discursively) by the indigenous organisations or communities to which they belong

Indigenous Representation in the Media and the Importance of Personal Narrative

Despite globalization, indigenous representation in the media continues to be unequal. Without personal narratives and self-representation in their stories, indigenous people continue to be negatively stereotyped in pop culture, film, television and news coverage

Writing Her History: Michelle Brownlee ’18

Michelle Brownlee ’18, Turtle Mountain Ojibwe, is the youngest collections assistant in the Field Museum’s Anthropology Department. The University of Minnesota Morris grad is putting her liberal arts education to work on indigenous representation at the museum

Indigenous Social Policy and the New Mainstreaming

Notes by Professor Jon Altman from a CAEPR Seminar of 13 October 2004, discussing changes in Indigenous social policy in the light of the recent federal election, including mainstreaming, whole-of-government approaches, Indigenous representation, consultation, choice, and agreement-making

“Of Course It’s There!”: Null Archives & Ohlone Representation in SCU’s Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection

In this panel on Intersectional Studies of Race, Ethnicity, Disability, and Indigeneity, Erin Louthen and Kelci Baughman McDowell position the Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection within the issues of indigenous representation in archives as it relates to the Ohlone in Santa Clara

"Jasper Jones" as a Window into Australia’s Aboriginal history

Jasper Jones (2017) is an Australian film adaptation of Craig Silvey’s 2009 novel of the same name. The film is directed by Arrernte woman Rachel Perkins, who founded Blackfella Films in 1992 and has since been heading the initiative to include more Indigenous representation on screen. With an Aboriginal character, Jasper Jones, at the forefront of the story, the film presents a window into the lives of Aboriginal people living in 1960’s white Australia