Re: Smoke Signals

i thought i asked yuo abpit this over a year ago, and that then you poo
pooed it.
i newver saw it.
g/On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 PAT.LAUDERDALE@asu.edu wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 19:24:22 -0700 (MST)
> From: PAT.LAUDERDALE@asu.edu
> To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
> Subject: Re: Smoke Signals
> 
> Yes, Smoke Signals is a very good film, especially in light of similar 
>flicks.
> You will enjoy it at many levels and maybe you'll check out the old Pow 
>Wow
> Highway video which focuses more accurately upon group freedom via the old
> indigenous path.  Alexie has many useful messages but he's caught up in 
>the
> Western individualism path with only a few asides to group issues, e.g., a
> narrow rendering of family. We have seen enough of new age, modern 
>knowledge
> and intelligence [holocausts from the Nazis to NATO] rather than old age,
> knowledge and wisdom
> 
> By the way, Kirkland's review is out of hand, many too many hyperboles.  
>It's
> as if he confuses new age intelligence for old age wisdom.  Or, mabye he's
> just trying to right the horrible Canadian record against First Peoples 
>[North
> American Indians here].  Again, don't get me wrong, Smoke Signals is light
> years beyond Dances with Christians [Wolves] and the simulacra of the John
> Wayne movies.  
> 
> Yours, in all of our indigenous roots [since we all come from them even 
>if we
> can not trace them directly],
> pl
> 
> 


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