“The relationship between education and media images is complex for First Nations Peoples, as such images are thought to be both instruments of colonial control and vehicles for decolonization”(Cornellier, 2012, pp.2-3) .
“Modernity, one should not forget, produces difference, exclusion and marginalisation. Holding out the possibility of emancipation, modern institutions at the same time create mechanisms of suppression, rather than actualisation, of self” (Giddens. 1991, p.6).
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Colonial Legacies and Stereotypical Depictions: Early Representations of Indigenous Peoples in North American Cinema //
Films as early as Nannook of the North, Peter Pan, and Pocahontas, through their panindianisms...