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Made in America, With Subtitles

August 21, 2009
By Paul Weideman, The Santa Fe New Mexican
USA

Aug. 21--If you're interested in Native American languages and movie depictions
of them, here's a fine contrast: a pair of 1894 films purportedly showing Sioux
ghost and buffalo dances and the 2007 film Nikamowin. The latter, by Kevin Lee
Burton (Swampy Cree), features rhythmic chantings of Cree phrases against a
hypnotic montage of landscapes. Nikamowin is a small masterpiece of abstract
filmmaking, but it also illuminates an important issue: that Native languages,
indispensable to their cultures, must be preserved.

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