{"id":259,"date":"2005-06-21T21:48:29","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T01:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2012-07-25T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T16:25:00","slug":"mnn-164-into-the-west-another-dirty-indian-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/21\/mnn-164-into-the-west-another-dirty-indian-film\/","title":{"rendered":"“Into the West” another “dirty Indian” film."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nTO APPEAL TO AMERICAN IGNORANCE.<\/strong>
\nWhy North Americans need to create historical lies!<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>MNN. June 21, 2005.\u00a0<\/strong>RDT, one of the actors in the series of lies, known as ?Into
\nthe West?, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, was asked by a non-Indian,
\n?What contributions have Native Americans made to the progress of America??<\/p>\n

RDT answered, ?Are you out of your mind? America has been in a downward spiral since you whites got here! I refuse to promote this stupid film. Yep! This period piece has got to be the bottom of the barrel. Steven Spielberg had no passion, no imagination. The production of these lies about Indigenous people
\ncost $100 million. It is meant to attract an audience at the expense of our dignity?.<\/p>\n

This is the most ever spent on a television episode. Whose fault is it? ?It?s
\nour fault for not making our own films, for not stopping this kind of skank, as a
\n?dirty film? is called. The average American gets off looking at those sick
\nlittle Indians. They have to portray us in a glass display case. We have to be
\nseen as having been whipped into submission, as degenerates. There is never a
\nportrayal of the fact that we developed the whole idea of democracy and equality.
\nThey refuse to see us as doctors, lawyers, professors, professional and skilled
\nhard working people. That?s because they think there?s no ?savagery? involved in
\nthese endeavors?.<\/p>\n

The Blacks have Spike Lee who made the great film, ?Malcolm X?; John Singleton who
\nmade ?Boys in the Hood?; Edward James Olmos who made ?American Me?; and the Maoris
\nhave Lee Tamahoori who made ?Once were Warriors?. Indigenous people have good
\ndirectors. ?We?re worried that the next one about us by white interests will be
\neven worse than this one!?<\/p>\n

?There isn?t one brilliant moment, not one redeeming gem in any frame of the film.
\nIt has nothing to do with art, vision, historical accuracy or representing
\nIndigenous people in a positive light?.<\/p>\n

Pierre George of Stoney Point agrees. He has been fighting against the releasing
\nof the film ?One Dead Indian?. This is another ritualistic sacrifice of ?Indians?
\non the alter of the North American ego. It exploits the murder of his brother,
\nDudley George, in 1995 in what is known as the ?Ipperwash? event. He is trying to
\nfind a way to shut down the Commission of Inquiry into Dudley?s murder that?s
\ngoing on right now in Forest Ontario. He has good reasons for doing so.<\/p>\n

The commission is an excuse to avoid the rule of law. It?s an old tactic, tried
\nand true. The Saskatchewan Commission on First Nations and Metis People and
\nJustice Reform was initiated to look into the murder of 17-year old Neil
\nStonechild and other native youth by the Saskatoon Police. When the report was
\nreleased, the press conference focused on ?aboriginal crime?. Neil Stonechild had
\nnot even been charged with a crime. So why did they murder him? No mention was
\nmade of the serious problem of police committing crimes and murdering people.<\/p>\n

?It?s all a big lie. The Ipperwash Inquiry is set up to look only into ?abuse? by
\nthe police of the Ontario Police Act. The police had no right to be on the
\nterritory in the first place! There was no surrender of our land. We are still
\nsovereign. There was no agreement with the Stony Point people to allow the police
\nof a foreign nation to operate here?. They were supposed to give the land back
\nafter the war. Instead the Ontario government turned it into a park.<\/p>\n

Pierre says, ?Both the film, ?One Dead Indian? and the inquiry are bought and paid
\nfor by the criminals who are committing genocide and who stole our land and our
\njurisdiction. It is illegal and obscene?.<\/p>\n

Every time we try to bring up the constitutional question, they bring on inquiries
\nand make movies that revise history and the law. Answering the law involves
\npointing the finger of genocide, the arch crime against humanity. It?s just
\ndisgusting!?<\/p>\n

?Into the West?, ?One Dead Indian? and now the ?Mohawk Oka Crisis of 1990? are all
\npart of the same crime. To date there have been no widely circulated accounts of
\nany of these events from an Indigenous point of view. Our experience and our
\nsensibilities are left completely out of an equation now thoroughly discredited
\nthat European invaders were somehow more civilized than the people they invaded.<\/p>\n

The Canadian and United States governments are spending big bucks to buy and
\nmanufacture excuses in two coordinated moves. One is to bury the law, the
\nconstitutional question. The second is to rewrite the factual history with these
\nmovies. Why is our point of view left out? It?s meant to continue to advance the
\nbig colonial lie. What really happened cannot be properly portrayed in movies
\nuntil the underlying constitutional question is acknowledged and addressed in
\nCanada and the United States.<\/p>\n

As RDT said, ?They do it all the time. The colonists hope that if they drag
\naround a falsehood long enough, everybody will forget the real facts. They want
\nto divert attention away from their crimes and brutality by starting fires all
\nover the place. Eventually the truth disappears into the air like a mustard fart!
\nThey wait it out like a bunch of buzzards flying around their predators?.<\/p>\n

The movies and public inquiries are all part of the brainwashing procedure. This
\nis not a question of whites versus ?injuns?. The real issue is do all people have
\na right to be treated equally? Does everyone have to obey the law, including the
\nconstitutional law? Is it okay to keep trashing us? The only possible aim of
\nthese films is to mislead the public and bury the question.<\/p>\n

Kahentinetha Horn
\nMNN Mohawk Nation News<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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