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I'm Not the Indian You Had in Mind (2007) Online
2007 Tara Beagan Lorne Cardinal Thomas King Thomas King
Original Title :
Iu0027m Not the Indian You Had in Mind
Genre :
Movie / Short / Comedy / Drama
Year :
2007
Directror :
Thomas King
Cast :
Tara Beagan,Lorne Cardinal,Thomas King
Writer :
Thomas King
Type :
Movie
Time :
5min
Rating :
6.6/10

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Canadian First Nations actors Tara Beagan, Lorne Cardinal and Thomas King recite a poem about what it means to First Nations. They explain that society's perception is guided by images in ... See full summary

I'm Not the Indian You Had in Mind (2007) Online

Canadian First Nations actors Tara Beagan, Lorne Cardinal and Thomas King recite a poem about what it means to First Nations. They explain that society's perception is guided by images in films and other media of "Indians", but that they are not "the Indians (we) have in mind" as portrayed in those images. Although some of those images are positive and some negative, they tend to be stereotypes. First Nations people in Canada, they explain, live like everyone else - they're your neighbors, your bus drivers, your shopkeepers. But First Nations people have to live in the way that is provided to them from decisions made by the earliest settlers.
Credited cast:
Tara Beagan Tara Beagan
Lorne Cardinal Lorne Cardinal
Thomas King Thomas King


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Jeb

Jeb

This is a funny, rhymed poem spoken by three Indians, immersed in the white world, with tons of little video clips from our past film history. The poem talks about Indians as they are in reality, compared to what they are in the imagination of our culture. Thomas King, the writer and director of this short, is of mixed white and Indian descent. An author, a lot of his writing, as well as this video, mixes the perspectives of the cultures. This short video is "Indian-centric" and it's got this funny, kind of sardonic, tone running under it, like water. If IMDb deletes the link to his video, you can find it in the NSI (National Screen Institute), which is a government agency of Canada, in their March 2012 folder. http://www.nsi-canada.ca/2012/03/im-not-the-indian-you-had-in-mind/