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Reel Injun, The Shackles Of Tradition By Neil Diamond

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Hollywood and the film industry represent Native Americans in classic movies as savages. In the documentary, "Reel Injun", Neil Diamond goes into how Native Americans are only portrayed as barbarians. This is vastly different from how Native Americans are portrayed in the documentary, "The Shackles of Tradition". This essay will compare and contrast Reel Injun, The Shackles of Tradition, and other movies that portray Native Americans. The basic characteristics that are portrayed, strengths and weaknesses of ethnographic portraits, and the positive & negative impacts this has on Native American culture. Has ethnography improved and what we can do to change the negative impact.

The basic stereotypes of the movies mentioned in "Reel Injun"

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