![]() ![]() But are these legends even based on any truth at all? Voiceless objects from the past are presented to us in museums and Indigenous peoples have always been depicted in the most wrongful ways by popular media. Legends are there to keep the memory alive. People don’t care about the truth anymore. The film is also based on King’s award-winning study, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. King narrates Michelle Latimer‘s important documentary ‘ Inconvenient Indian‘, examining the ongoing colonization of Indigenous peoples in North America. History is not the past, history is the stories we tell about the past, they explain how we we got here. Throughout the film he tells us the story of the coyote and the ducks, which stands as an allegory for the European settlers taking increasingly more from the Native people of North America. Thomas King sits in the back of a car while making an important observation on how we have to be careful of the stories we tell and those we’ve been told. Once it’s been told, we can never call it back. ![]()
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