Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama: Health and Medicine in Native North American Religious Traditions

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
Michelene E. Pesantubbee ◽  
Ake Hultkrantz
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Native North American ◽  
Shamanic Healing ◽  
Ritual Drama

Native North American religious traditions: dancing for life

2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (02) ◽  
pp. 45-0815-45-0815
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Native North American

Indian Boarding School Gothic in Older than America and The Only Good Indian

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kella
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Boarding Schools ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Native North American ◽  
Indian Boarding School ◽  
Visual Sovereignty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Indian Boarding Schools

This article examines the appropriation and redirection of the Gothic in two contemporary, Native-centered feature films that concern a history that can be said to haunt many Native North American communities today: the history of Indian boarding schools. Georgina Lightning’s Older than America (2008) and Kevin Willmott’s The Only Good Indian (2009) make use of Gothic conventions and the figures of the ghost and the vampire to visually relate the history and horrors of Indian boarding schools. Each of these Native-centered films displays a cinematic desire to decenter Eurocentric histories and to counter mainstream American genres with histories and forms of importance to Native North American peoples. Willmott’s film critiques mythologies of the West and frontier heroism, and Lightning attempts to sensitize non-Native viewers to contemporary Native North American concerns while also asserting visual sovereignty and affirming spiritual values.

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