The Only Good Indian on DVD now!

December 7, 2009 at 9:37 pm (culture, drama, entertainment, ethics, history, Independent film, Indigenous People, life, movies, Native Americans, random, Uncategorized)
Tags: boarding schools, children, cultural genocide, dvd, family, films, history, Indian Policemen, movies, Native Americans, The Only Good Indian, Wes Studi, Winter Fox Frank

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Okay, some folks have been kind enough to post heads up regarding the availability of The Only Good Indian on dvd for us here in North America. Unfortunately this seems a definite NO to seeing it on the big screen in a movie theater.   If you’re interested in Indian issues this film staring Wes Studi and the incredibly talented Winter Fox Frank is a must see.  The initial focus of the the film is the destruction of Native American family and culture via the forced boarding school experience where children often did not return home for years and years–nor even when they were sick and dying  –and not when dead either. But this movie offers a great deal more regarding some insight into the mindset and values of Indigenous people; some things to seriously consider in this time of failing consumer based mainstream culture rife with all sorts of symptomatic addictions and dysfunctions.  Never, never underestimate an Indian ‘boy’s’ power. 

Btw, the only thing I’d change about the film is that Wes Studi’s character would be an Indian  Policeman because one of their ‘jobs’ on the reservations was to ‘collect’ children from their families–and there were standoffs with gun weilding angry parents.  Would you voluntarily give your children up to complete strangers to never see for several years in a distant place you had no way to travel to?