PART I: The ORIGINS of Indigenous Tropes in American Horror
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- Happy Hallow's Eve. This is part one is my dive and take on Native Themed Tropes in American Horror. Here I give a historical context that can help us understand the origins of these tropes. Be sure to check out Part Two, where I dig deeper into the tropes themselves.
What forms of media have you seen that uses Indigenous lore in horror?
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Let me know here in the comments if you can think of any forms of Media that misappropriates Indigenous lore as a plot device? Are there some that do a good job? Thanks for watching everyone.
I know I brought this up before, but I'm really interested to know where season 3 of Fear the Walking Dead falls, in terms of representation vs. appropriation/exploitation.
To me it seemed like they did a good job of representation, while sometimes using general American audiences' familiarity with native tropes against them to set up twists and thought-provoking moments. But being a fairly ignorant white guy myself, it could have been all disrespectful and unrealistic and I probably wouldn't know it...
This is an example of Hispanic Indigenous lore but I really liked “Maya and the Three” on Netflix.
thanks for this great video! in my cultural anthropology classes, the phrase they used for "the vanishing indian" trope was "imperial nostalgia." it's defintely one of those "moves to innocence" in that it paints colonialism as having happened in the past, while also denying the existence of actual people. it's a very nefarious fantasy. i hate it.
1:34 “The relocation era..” Is that what it’s called in school textbooks? Should be “The genocide era”. USA has so many horrendously dehumanising and racist aspects to its past that are yet to be acknowledged, let alone processed. Could learn from Germany and South Africa - even Canada; they’ve at least tried to generate open discussion. Your work is really important!
Let’s freaking go!!! I’m you’re biggest fan!!
People! Check out this guy's channel! Really fun stuff.
I had a completely different take on the “Indian burial ground” trope. Instead of it being a “polluting” spiritual factor as alien or unknown from a christonormative cultural perspective, my understanding was generally that dark spiritual forces concentrated there because they are a link to past sins or tragedy, in that case, the genocide committed against the Native American people. This is very common in horror in general, a house may be haunted because it’s on an “Indian burial ground”, or because a series of horrible murders were committed there in the past, etc. The “Indian burial ground” is specific to the Americas, of course, and has other connotations like cultural guilt and others that you mentioned. I would add that specifically in the Shining, the hotel interior is covered with Native American artifacts and patterns, it’s always present, but rarely talked about. Given the mention of the burial ground, the past murders and then Jack’s murderous insanity, my overall impression is that of a place so polluted by a history of bloody, violent atrocities that it has developed a corrupting influence, creating new explosions of violence. In every case, it was innocents who suffered.
This came just in time for the Halloween season. Thanks for the amazing content. I've noticed how popular the Wendigo in particular has become in the horror genre. There's the horror video game, Until Dawn, the 1999 film, Ravenous, and the new horror movie, Antlers, that just came out. I'd love to hear your reaction to all these different takes on this terrifying creature.
The movie Poltergeist too. Thanks for sharing. Peace, Strength, Love
Omg, this video is just done with so much high quality!! Video effects as well as content!! I am amazed.
excited for the part II tropes & examples! good way to set the scene
Thank YOU so much! I really love your channel 💓 Appreciate you bring knowledge forward.
I want to thank you for helping me learn and understand! I hope your platform continues to grow and educate.
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Can't wait for part 2 dude!
as an indigenous person myself I love that this stuff is finally getting addressed by someone who is an indigenous person and has lived the experience in the culture understands everything about it. thank you 👍✨
Awesome video neechee. Love your content
I just watched your video where you said that the whole "noble savage" trope came in part from white settler guilt, and I wonder if there's an element of that in our adaption of the "Indian burial ground" trope?
Enjoying your videos!
Watching part two now where you go into this more!
Thanks!!! Great job
Sharing with my peeps. Great Halloween content
You are awesome. Thank you for what you do.
Graham Masterton wrote some novels with vengeful spirits called up by indigenous people, but he's hardly as well known as King
Thanks for this!
The Vanishing Indian Trope is so silly. I come from the Navajo Nation and if someone told me that before I heard of this trope I would simply laugh.
Im glad you bring up that christianity was forced on natives not many bring it up
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Until 1978, from 1880. Did my first sundance in 1973. Could have ended up in Fed pen. This in a country that is mine by birth & invaded by people seeking religious freedom. Go figure...
Bro if they made movie about our Culture the Warrior stories...freakin bloody and grim...not so far from Viking mythology...