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  Re: [nativeartsculture] Ooooooooo Hot, hot review of 'Into The West'

Hi there Ann.... How are you??!! Hope you are feelin better Mashke... Nitanyan bluha ye!   Well... Many people made a big deal out of "Dances with Wolves" but it was another epic movie of one white man's view on Lakota people. Saying that, it could have been much worse in its whole.It still turned out more or less okay. At least on the language side of things. It was well done at least just for that. ( I still love that "k'u wo" from Rodney Grant!) I will give a shot to "In the West" when we get to see it over here, if we do get to!! Obviously after this follow-up, I will be cautious, but I do not expect the worse out of things. It is not everyday that a major movie is done on the Natives, I cannot help but be hopeful that it might not be as bad as you told us....   Thank you for the post and email. Hope to hear that you are better soon.

"Ann ..... Little Running Deer"

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  Into the West Preview part two of 'Into the West,' premiering Friday.

 Osiyo all -

Well, have to put my two cents in here,....

Dances with Wolves was not so bad as to prevent the Lakota from making
Kevin Costner an honorary
member of the tribe (regardless of what I personally thought of the
film or Kevin Costner).

As far as Into The West is concerned,... several points I will make
here.

First of all, I have watched every episode thus far, and I have to
disagree with the some of the views presented
in this article,... the production is very well made, the acting good,
the story overall is good, and the portrayal of
Native Americans - their side of the story and how they are presented
from a historical standpoint of that time period -
is actually good also in my opinion. Granted, it is rather basic, but
it is as in depth as any film can be given the limitations
of the medium I believe, especially considering the number of
individual characters involved and the breadth of the time period
the story spans - to be truly multi-dimensional and in depth as true
life is and was would require not just 12 hours of filming, but
literally
dozens of hours, maybe hundreds of hours of film for a story such as
this.

I do agree with the one point of the person who said more film stories
should be done by Native Americans themselves, this is something
I have long wholeheartedly supported...........................(In part)

Peace and blessings

RJ 

 Re: [nativeartsculture] Ooooooooo Hot, hot review of 'Into The West'

"Ann ..... Little Running Deer"

The chat boards at film site became so bloody hot, they closed them!!!!! Some, ...... most only saw first viewing. There were views of and by Ndns in the film also. But most wars at the chat site were over ones who are full blooded and  the 1/16 or want to be's Ndn and who even ( was that bravely or stupidly) walked in and spoke up on that topic, not about the film !!!! Ooooooooooooooo Wooooooooooooo

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