 Author-Director: Lubtchansky (Jean-Claude)
Author: Jacquin (Philippe)
Production / Distribution: Trans Europe Film, Editions Gallimard, APTN (Canada), ARTE France
Participation: CNC
organization (s) holder (s) or custodian (s): Trans Europe Film About film
posted by admin A documentary that traces the life and history of Indian civilization and its annihilation by the ancestors (?) Of those who claim the country's "defender of Liberty" ... and policeman of the world ... (Their world). At first there were the Indians themselves. One day in Europe, came the trappers. Then the settlers, missionaries, soldiers. From the seventeenth century, they want them to American soil. Algonquins, Hurons, Iroquois, Cheyenne, Comanche, Apache, Sioux. Major tribes engage in a bloody guerrilla war. At Wounded Knee tragically come to an end three centuries of Indian resistance. The losers are kept in reserve. Today the three million Indians of North America, threatened by poverty and cultural conformity, trying to reconcile their identity with the benefits of modernity. LAND OF THE REDSKINS
posted by admin LAND OF THE REDSKINS Director Jean-Claude LUBTCHANSKY
Producer TRANSEUROPE FILM
Duration 51min
Year 2001
Category Program Unit
Genre Documentary
Programme co-produced by ARTE France Two thousand tribes of Indians inhabited the Americas before it is "discovered" by Europeans. Hunters, gatherers and fishermen living in peace as a religious syncretism governed by natural elements. This beautiful documentary traces the history of genocide and cultural upheaval. Initially, there are Indians. In the sixteenth century, the first missionaries settled in eastern North America, forged friendly relations with the Hurons and Algonquins. Then with the arrival of trappers and soldiers, many tribes took fright and fled. But the European offensive began in earnest in the seventeenth century. Whites land ownership on the grounds that the Indians do not grow, yet they have no concept of private property. Wars and epidemics decimated the Indians ... Paintings, sketches and drawings of the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries show the thrill of conquest, the desolation of battles. The documentary by Jean-Claude Lubtchansky, without ignoring the bloodshed, says the cultural destruction. For Indians, the soil is made from the dust of bones, flesh and blood of our ancestors, and the snake brings rain. The arrival of whites, with their firearms and their ownership concept, breaks this harmony with nature. But it also inaugurated an unprecedented experience of confrontation between cultures and reflection on the other. For example, two young officers of the U.S. government, charged in 1804 to explore the lands that extend to the Pacific, fighting a description of significant cultural features of the "wild" they observe, despite their evolutionary vocabulary of a another time. The documentary ends with a map of the Black Hills, sacred mountains, deserted by the spirits, leaving room for portraits of U.S. presidents carved into the rock ... The genocide of American Indians who, four centuries, rose from 7 million to $ 400 000 is coupled ethnocide. About
posted by admin Released : 26/04/2000
Publisher : Gallimard (Editions)
Collection : Gallimard Discoveries
ISBN : 2-07-053523-1
EAN : 9782070535231
Nb. Page : 159 pages
Weight : 255 g
Dimensions : 12.5 cm x 17.5 cm x 1.2 cm At first there were the Indians themselves.
One day in Europe, came the trappers. Then the settlers, missionaries, soldiers. From the seventeenth century, they want them to American soil. Algonquins, Hurons, Iroquois, Cheyenne, Comanche, Apache, Sioux ... major tribes engage in a bloody guerrilla war. At Wounded Knee tragically come to an end three centuries of Indian resistance. The losers are kept in reserve.
Today the three million Indians of North America, threatened by poverty and cultural conformity, trying to reconcile their identity with the benefits of modernity. Anthropologist Philippe Jacquin traces the history of a people whose destiny has special meaning for other minorities in the world. |
