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Navajos on Mars: Native Sci-Fi Film Futures
Bunky Echohawk’s (Pawnee) “If Yoda Was an Indian, He’d be Chief”
Willi Lempert, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has written a fascinating piece on Native SF films. That there is such a thing is news to me. It’s interesting to see a non-western take on the future in the short films that Lempert examines. These films offer an alternative to the typical stereotypes found in most genre movies – when there are any native people in them at all.
“This article is a brief attempt to draw on Indigenous futurisms as a way of introducing the diversity of Native sci-fi films in conversation with mainstream sci-fi.”
Lempert divides native SF into utopias, dystopias, and alien encounters and offers multiple examples of each for you to experience for yourself. Check it out.
