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Movie review: “From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A reporter’s journey”

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In 1973, Kevin McKiernan was a young white photographer from Minneapolis looking for a job. When AIM took over Wounded Knee, he headed to South Dakota and managed to get a press pass. When the US military excluded all media … Continue reading →

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The movie Wind River and white saviors: A review of reviews

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Wind River, a 2017 crime thriller set in the winter wilderness of the Wind River Indian Reservation, focuses on the on-going epidemic of assaulted and missing Native women and girls. Examples of the problem are not hard to find. The … Continue reading →

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Chris Rock, the Academy Awards, and Native Americans

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

With the Academy Awards under scrutiny for its all-white nominations, and Chris Rock schedule to host the awards show amid boycotts (he was schedule to be the host before the nominations came out), NPR interviews the 1491s about the The Revenant … Continue reading →

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“Wounded Knee: A Line in the Sand”

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Stephen Carr Hampton

While all eyes are on Ferguson (deservedly so), here comes an exciting request on Kickstarter to complete a documentary about the Wounded Knee stand-off in 1973.  Like Ferguson, it is another story from America’s underclass of a racial struggle to … Continue reading →

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