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Dear War Arrow,

Thank you so much for sharing this fascinating film with us. I just got around to viewing it, and all I can say is I would love to see more like it.

Walk In Balance,
Deer

this public service commercial ran in the early seventies and perhaps the late sixties.

i thought the guy was a native, but found out later he was italian.

anyway

i think the commercials helped bring a public awareness of the pollution problems in those days.

Dear Ollan,

I think you are talking about an actor called Iron Eyes Cody. My friend told me over a year ago he was Italian.

Walk In Balance,
Deer

yes that is the actors name

thanks

Dear Ollan,

You're very welcome. I see I have more to view here, but it's getting time for my ice cream and then to bed. I know it's not healthy.

Walk In Balance,
Deer

Hello,

I have just been in touch with the head of the entertainment division of The Indian Center Of Southern California. He informed me they are going to have their own film school so they can train their own film makers. They have already made a few films. My boyfriend and I are going to a Pow Wow on the 31st to meet him and some other people from the center. I should be more specific in that it's the Los Angeles Center as there are five of them. Travis wants to show us the films. I'll ask him whether or not there are any trailers on You Tube we can put here.

Walk In Balance,
Deer

Hello All,

I need to correct some information I posted last night. It's Southern California Indian Center and not the way I put it. My apologies.

Walk In Balance,
Deer

That's good news Theresa!

I've always had problems with the way Brian Moore's Black Robe portrayed the First Nations. I have a similar issue with anything by W.P. Kinsella (Dance Me Outside directed by Bruce Macdonald). Kinsella defends writers' freedom to create fiction about any subject. He states, "It's the oppressed and the oppressor that I write about. The way that oppressed people survive is by making fun of the people who oppress them. That is essentially what my Indian stories are all about." (from Canadian Encyclopedia)

There was a time in the early to mid 90s that producing a film that contained a First Nation's subject matter and FN crew pried huge amounts of pennies out of government film development agencies.

pacifist?

Ollan: Not sure what you mean by pacifist. Kinsella just likes to rip off our stories and defends himself by saying that it's all about the writing - kind of like those Indian Bureau and INAC folks that like to tell us what's wrong with us without ever stepping foot on our territory/communities.

i have often thought they do what they do to pi-s us off

i find it much easier to view a movie and walk away with my own thoughts.

in my opinion blackrobe has more honesty about our not to distant past than most want to admit.