indians and cinema

Indians & Cinema

Ana Neves - Érica Raquel - Luciana Monteiro - Sara Vaz

INDEX

Introduction

Historic Context

The life of indians

Study of case: Pocahontas

Indians nowadays

Location of Indians

Conclusion

Movies about the topic

Introduction

What or who are the indians/ Indigenous?

Also known as Amerindians or Native Americans, indigenous are the native people of the, now USA, who occupied the territory before the european invasion.

Historical Context

Indigenous "ruled" the continent with multipe tribes

15 000 years ago the indigenous ancestors arrived at what we now call America

Their descendents explored along the west coast and coverd almost the entire continent

In the 15th century is when the Europeans invade the continent

THE LIFE OF INDIANS

FOOD Indians ate many different kinds of food.

MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN Many Indians married at an early age.

CLOTHING They made clothes from animal skins and furs.

HOUSES AND HOMES They built many different types of homes.

THE LIFE OF INDIANS

WARFARE Indians often fought against other tribes.

GOVERNEMENT Families and whole clans joined together to form tribes.

RELIGION Indians did not have one single religion.

ARTS & CRAFTS Native Americans worked in many arts and crafts.

The Inuit

The Aymara

Study Case of Pocahontas

Reality

Disney

vs

Study Case of Pocahontas

Fact

2030

Myth

Myth

Fact

Her name was not Pocahontas

Amanute changed her name.

She was buried in Gravesend.

Pocahontas fell in love with explorer John Smith and they were married.

The English treated Pocahontas well.

Indians nowadays

Today, there are over five million Native Americans in the United States, 78% of whom live outside reservations: California, Arizona and Oklahoma have the largest populations of Native Americans in the United States. Most Native Americans live in small-town or rural areas. With a 27,000-square-mile reservation and more than 250,000 members, the Navajo Tribe is the largest American Indian tribe in the United States today.

7 MOVIES ABOUT THE TOPIC

• INDIANS USED TO BE PORTRAIT AS PEOPLE OF FEW WORDS WITH MAGICAL POWERS
• ALTHOUGH FEMALES ARE QUITE THE OPPOSITE
• FORTUNELY, THIS CONCESSION HAS CHANGED AND NOWADAYS THERE IS A LOT OF NATIVE AMERICAN REPRESENTATION.

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Conclusion

The native Americans are so brave and we need to be inspired by them because they are normal people just like us.

Q&A

1- The ancestours came from - Asia -Europe

3- Native Women were represented different than men in media - True -False

4- What is Pocahontas' real name? - Matoaka -Amonute

2- Which topic is not addressed in the life of Indians? -Marriage and Children -Studies

webgraphy

https://www.english-online.at/people/native-americans/native-americans-introduction.htm

https://www.thoughtco.com/native-american-stereotypes-in-film-television-2834655

https://ticonderogasummer.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/reality-vs-myth-the-life-of-pocahontas/

https://ticonderogasummer.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/reality-vs-myth-the-life-of-pocahontas/

https://time.com/3916680/native-american-hollywood-film/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States

THANKS!

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