A View From the Braun Lecture Series: Imagery and Reality: The Role of American Indians in Film and Television September 26, 2009

Paul Apodaca, PhD., Associate Professor at Chapman University and Southwest Museum Lecturer in Residence, has a keen interest in film and American Indians. He was part of the tem that won the Academy Award in 1986 for the Best Feature Documentary, Broken Rainbow, that exposed a government plan to remove hundreds of Navajo and Hopi Indians from their homeland. How film has affected the imagery and reality of American Indians will be discussed along with examples of film and television depictions from 1914 to the present day.