Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film

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Imagic Moments TH E UN IVE RS ITY OF GEORGIA PRESS 2013 This page intentionally left blank Imagic Moments Indigenous North American Film LEE SCHWENINGER The University of Georgia Press Athens and London © 2013 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org All rights reserved Set in Sabon and Helvetica Neue by Graphic Composition, Inc., Bogart, GA. Manufactured by Thomson-Shore The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Printed in the United States of America 17 16 15 14 13 p 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Schweninger, Lee. Imagic moments : indigenous North American film / Lee Schweninger. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography. isbn-13: 978-0-8203-4514-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-8203-4514-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn-13: 978-0-8203-4515-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-8203-4515-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Indians in motion pictures. 2. Motion pictures—United States. 3. Motion pictures—Canada. 4. Indians in the motion picture industry—United States. 5. Indians in the motion picture industry—Canada. I. Title. pn1995.9.i48s44 2013 791.43'652997—dc23 2012042287 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available ISBN for digital edition: 978-0-8203-4576-5 for my brothers Loren and Mark This page intentionally left blank . . . Natives are the storiers of natural reason on this continent, and their stories are, as they have always been, the imagic moments of cultural conversions and native modernity. —Gerald Vizenor, “Ontic Images,” 161 The “imagic moment, or vision, is the story of the picture. . . . The imagic moment is the creation of an ontic sense of presence, another connection in a picture.” —Gerald Vizenor, “Ontic Images,” 170 This page intentionally left blank ...