Reply #13: see, it's PURE that way [View All]

I really hate the portrayal of native cultures in film, tv, etc.

One of things to add to my list of "shit I would do if I had a TARDIS" is going back to NA cultures before whites, and seeing what their real religions and spiritual interactions/relationships with nature were really about. New Age wooists pervert NA religion for their own purposes, and I fear that current tribal leaders would be biased towards counteracting the "white" way of thinking. I want to see it pure, when there's no frame of reference for the people themselves. Humans are humans, and I find it hard to believe that NA culture was a great deal different from any other hunter-gatherer/early agrarian society. Sure, there would be differences, but I don't think it would be much different from, say, ancient celts. Of course, there I'm assuming a monolithic NA culture, which of course is not at all the case. I'm in Ohio, so I always picture Eastern woodland tribes, but even then, there are many languages and traditions within that group.

I'm sleepy, hopefully that was fairly coherent :)