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from the University of Northern Colorado and his M.A. Indigenous peoples are not fundamentally flawed, rather we don’t have a proper understanding of their culture or history.ĭaniel Heath Justice is a Colorado-born Canadian citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Professor Justice himself authored “Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History”, “The Way of Thorn and Thunder”, an Indigenous epic fantasy series, and numerous other essays in the field of Indigenous literary studies. He believes that indigenous literatures and other artistic productions can give indigenous people back that sense of wholeness. We’re denied that in the popular representations,” says Professor Justice. “.rarely are we seen as fully-fleshed, complicated, interesting, funny, and loving human beings. He wants to unmake this oppressive settler-colonial reality that we’re living. Why is this always the way we portray indigenous people in the mainstream media? Why does it always seem like they are primitive, backward, or in some way inferior?ĭaniel Justice, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture at the University of British Columbia, asks these questions. How about that Native tribe in Disney’s original rendition of Peter Pan? Or the ridiculous portrayal of Apache culture that caused a cast walk-out from the set of Adam Sandler’s movie The Ridiculous 6? We’ve all seen popular representations of indigenous peoples.
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