Both timeless and timely, The Inconvenient Indian ultimately rejects the pessimism and cynicism with which Natives and Whites regard one another to chart a new and just way forward for Indians and non-Indians alike. At the heart of the dysfunctional relationship between Indians and Whites, King writes, is land: 'The issue has always been land.' With that insight, the history inflicted on the indigenous peoples of North America-broken treaties, forced removals, genocidal violence, and racist stereotypes-sharpens into focus. Inconvenient Indian is a 2020 Canadian documentary film, directed by Michelle Latimer.It is an adaptation of Thomas Kings non-fiction book The Inconvenient Indian, focusing on narratives of indigenous peoples of Canada.King stars as the documentarys narrator, with Gail Maurice and other indigenous artists appearing. It is a critical and personal meditation that sees Native American history not as a straight line but rather as a circle in which the same absurd, tragic dynamics are played out over and over again. In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of IndianWhite relations in North America since initial contact.Ranging freely across the centuries and the CanadaU.S. Suffused with wit, anger, perception, and wisdom, The Inconvenient Indian is at once an engaging chronicle and a devastating subversion of history, insightfully distilling what it means to be 'Indian' in North America.

border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in film and popular culture, wrestles with the history of Native American resistance and his own experiences as a Native rights activist, and articulates a profound, revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada-U.S.

In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact.

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