This is a Stereotype

This is a Stereotype (2014) is a short film featuring audio interviews from contemporary Native American artists and scholars paired with historical footage sourced from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Native American Videotape Archive (1976). This work was created by Cannupa Hanska Luger, Dylan McLaughlin and Ginger Dunnill. Interviewees include Migizi Pensoneau, April Youpee-Roll, Douglas Miles, Adrienne Keene, Courtney Leonard, Karl Duncan, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Wendy Red Star and Bentley Spang.

This is a Stereotype asks us to look deeper at popular culture’s characterization of Native Americans and ask why certain ideas about Native people are upheld as truths, and how that is harmful to Indigenous communities. This work creates a layered dialogue spanning decades in order for the audience to look deeper at internalized bias and to begin to dismantle the misconceptions of the Native American.  

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