COMPILED & REVIEWED BY CLAUDIA A. FOX TREE, M.Ed (Arawak). Here are resources I recommend in courses I teach about Native Americans - like book lists, websites, video clips, music/songs, curriculum ideas, and other thoughts thrown in for explanation… Mostly, this blog is a place to present truths and perspectives about the Indigenous People of the Western Hemisphere (with particular focus on the Caribbean) not easily found in other places.
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Thursday, August 9, 2018
Peter Pan
I would say that my position is that the film and play version of Peter
Pan is that represents the racist past and ongoing oppression of indigenous
people and I do not support it's production. It has done more damage to
the image, history, and culture of indigenous people than almost
anything else as it is the one single memory almost everyone has of
Native Americans. Simply portraying a real group of people as part of a
"fantasy world" makes our real culture invisible, keeps us stuck in the
past, and puts us up against pretend, imaginary characters, instead of
the living, breathing people we are.