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They created an exhibition for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian about the Indigenous influence on American music, titled “Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture”, [4] borrowing a title from the Oscar-winning song, "Up Where We Belong" co-written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, [5] an Italian-American who ...
The documentary is partly structured as a road movie, with Diamond visiting locations across the United States as well as the Canadian North.In the U.S., he is traveling by "rez car," a broken down automobile often used on Indian Reservations, as demonstrated in Reel Injun with a sequence from the film Smoke Signals.
The Karankawa's autonym is Né-ume, meaning "the people". [1]The name Karakawa has numerous spellings in Spanish, French, and English. [1] [12]Swiss-American ethnologist Albert S. Gatschet wrote that the name Karakawa may have come from the Comecrudo terms klam or glám, meaning "dog", and kawa, meaning "to love, like, to be fond of."
The depiction of nudity in Indian art doesn't support the claim that public nudity was acceptable/normal across all castes and regions in India. By contemporary standards, the unclothed female upper body is considered semi-nude or a sign of obscene nudity, however, historically some regions and classes/ castes of modern-day India , have ...
The Erie people were also known as the Eriechronon, Yenresh, Erielhonan, Eriez, Nation du Chat, and Riquéronon. [citation needed] They were also called the Chat ("Cat" in French) or "Long Tail", referring, possibly, to the raccoon tails worn on clothing; however, in Native American cultures across the Eastern Woodlands, the terms "cat" and "long tail" tend to be references to a mythological ...
French-U.K. outfit Alief has acquired international sales rights to Indian filmmaker Bhargav Saikia’s supernatural folk horror “Bokshi,” ahead of its world premiere in International Film ...
Following the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, by which the tribe ceded its lands in Illinois, most of the Potawatomi people were removed to Indian Territory, west of the Mississippi River. Many perished en route to new lands in the west on their journey through Iowa , Kansas, and Indian Territory, following what became known as the " Trail of Death ".
A common expression in everyday speech is a form of "you can't be Indian, Indians are extinct". [1] Another form is in the discussion of disappearance as inevitable, beginning this narrative in the early days of colonization. [2] It is a common theme in the arts and media as well, that dates back to early colonial times.