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January 20th 2006 • Printer version
Marquee Massacres
Native Americans in One Hundred Years of Global Movie Graphics
Jacobs Gallery, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, 6th and Willamette
in downtown Eugene. Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and
Politics.
In addition to his expertise on film history and movie graphics,
Strickland is a major figure in legal education who introduced Indian
law into the university curriculum. He is the author of 40 popular and
scholarly books on Native American law and culture, including Tontos
Revenge or Who is the Seminole in the SiouxNative War Bonnet? The
Cinematic Indian!
 In his curators statement, Strickland writes:
"More than half a century ago, Warner Brothers Studio came to my
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Art Exhibit January 27-March 4, 2006
hometown of Muskogee, Oklahoma. They came to make Jim Thorpe: All
American, a film about the Native American athlete who had just been
selected as the greatest sports hero of the first half of the
twentieth-century. This exhibit reflects what I, as a grade-schooler of
Osage and Cherokee heritage, observed at that time and what, as a
professor of Indian law, I have continued to observe: The Hollywood
Indian and the historic Indian aint the same.
to
reflect the duality of Native stereotypes -- ranging from the Indian as
Savage Sinner to the Indian as Redskinned Redeemer.