What New Zealand Could Teach US About Indigenous Culture

POSTED BY: Magonsdaughter
UPDATED: Monday, July 24, 2023 19:59
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Originally posted by Brenda:

"Dances with Wolves" is one of my favourites too, though I have heard people bad mouth it. That film saddens me too as it portrays the end of the Horse Culture of the plains Indians.

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Been to Montana and the site of The Battle of the Little Bighorn. That area, as well as S. Dakota and Wyoming, really is amazing.

I believe the Dances with Wolves story is suppose to take place in Kansas ? But I read where it's filmed in S. Dakota, Wyoming, etc..., which is the part of the country I got to see. Pretty cool.

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I've never sat down and watched "Jeremiah Johnson" all the way through because I don't like Robert Redford.

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What'd he ever do to you ?

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I'm not mad on Robert Redford either, but I liked him in JJ.

A NZ film about modern Maori culture is 'The Whale Rider' which I can recommend.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298228/

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Originally posted by Brenda:

Cool on the actually visiting the site of the Little Big Horn. I've only seen it in documentaries. It is on my Bucket List. One of many sites and places I would like to see in the US.

Honestly, I'm not sure where Dances is suppose to be set. Might have been Kansas but the scenery for the film is fantastic.

So sue me. I prefeer his friend Paul Newman to him. I've seen "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" one too many times.

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Oh, no difference to me. I just hadn't heard anyone dislike Redford unless it was for some specific issue. Newman was something else too.

Wyoming, S.Dakota, Montana...sure is a different world out there. A bit 'rustic' in places, though still amazing. Devil's Tower was a hoot to see in person as well.

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Originally posted by Brenda:

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
I'm not mad on Robert Redford either, but I liked him in JJ.

A NZ film about modern Maori culture is 'The Whale Rider' which I can recommend.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298228/]



I'll have to take a closer look at JJ. Might be able to find it on YouTube.

I've heard "The Whale Rider" is a good film.

I've seen one film on the Maori and it was called "Once Were Warriors". It's a modern film done in the 1980s, I think. It's a bit on the depressing side as it deals with alcoholism, an unfortunate trap that has plagued the American and Canadian Indian. So, I can recognize some parallels in it to here.

I just looked it up and it is set in 1994 and based on a book that was published in 1990.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110729

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I've seen it. very powerful and very depressing.

I just revisited 'I heard the owl call my name' I loved the book and remember the movie fondly, but it's not stood the test of time, sadly.

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