Film premiere on April 3 comes amid national push to remove American Indian mascots and symbols in schools and other public places.
San Manuel, the executive producer, provided a $1 million grant for the documentary.
“Imagining the Indian” does a deep dive into the genesis of the exploitation of American Indian culture in competitive sports, and how Indian mascoting has not only been detrimental to Native peoples, but to marginalized groups everywhere. Stephanie A. Fryberg, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan and a member of the Tulalip Tribes who is featured in the documentary, led apublished in 2020 that revealed that younger and more liberal individuals — people who did not identify as cisgender men — were more opposed to the use of American Indian mascots in general and more harmed by them.
Ramos said in a press release that more than 100 places in California contain the “S-word, and that the United States Department of the Interior has“erased from the national landscape and forever replaced” on the almost 700 sites using the name on federal lands. Montana, Oregon, Maine and Minnesota already have banned the word’s use.
“The word reflects the demeaning attitude toward Native women that has contributed to the crisis of missing and murdered women and girls in the Native American community,” Ramos said in an email.
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