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Yellow Bird: 'DreamKeepers' breaks stereotypes
Wednesday, January 7, 2004
"I don't like and rarely watch two-part films on television because it means I have to be in place in front of the TV the next evening. I also don't like most films about Native Americans. I am squeamish about watching films where all Native people are portrayed as alcoholics who live in poverty. Nor do I appreciate portrayals of holy men that are taken straight from the imagination of writers who know little about medicine men or spiritual people.
I watched the two-part "DreamKeepers" last week hoping it would beat the odds on all of those things. I wasn't disappointed."
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DORREEN YELLOW BIRD COLUMN: 'DreamKeepers' marks new era in films about Native Americans
(The Grand Forks Herald 1/6)
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