Indigenous Women: Film Analysis

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Soon, however, Indigenous women start to slowly take back their power, reasserting their self-defined feminine and Indigenous identities. Latisha lets her kids watch the Western, and at first, tired, explains to her son’s dismay that “if the Indians won, it probably wouldn’t be a Western” (King, Green Grass 193). As the film continues, though, and reaches a battle scene, her child asks if the movie is over. Latisha “[watches]...the soldiers [boring] down on the Indians” and asserts, “‘Yes… It is’”, and as “she [touches] the remote control...the screen [goes] blank” (King, Green Grass 215). Latisha decides to take back power over the Western and take control over how her culture is represented in media; specifically, how her people and her gender are …show more content…
She keeps the white cowboys in the Western from killing the Indians, taking power as a woman over imperialistic Western ideals. This is paralleled in greater scale with the journey of the mysterious Four Old Indians who have escaped from a mental hospital on quest to ‘fix’ things, including a few particular western films. Occupying some space between the retold amalgamations of Bible stories with Indigenous myths and the reality of the reservation, the Four Old Indians defy conventions of gender and identity as they insist on self-definition and autonomy while various white men repeatedly assert incorrect names upon them in the mythological world and mistakenly assume their masculinity in the real world. When the Four Old Indians come to Bill Bursum’s TV store in Blossom, they sit with Lionel and Charlie to experience Bursum’s magnum opus: The Map. Bursum, a white man with questionable views on Indigenous rights (and Lionel’s boss), loves Westerns and is obsessed with his latest creation, a huge arrangement of multiple televisions in the shape of a map of the United States of
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