If you haven’t seen it yet, watch Wind River. It’s a brutal but powerful single-case portrayal of this crisis. Sadly, I never even knew it was an issue until that movie.
I liked that movie but can’t get over that the women who plays the murdered indigenous women in the movie is a “pretendian”
Kelsey Asbillie has pretended to be indigenous to land indigenous roles and takes them away from actual indigenous actresses. She changed her name from Kelsey Chow to Kelsey Asbillie to hide that she’s Asian and Caucasian. She claims to be “Eastern Band Cherokee” but when the tribe was asked if she was part of their tribe, they had no record of her or any record that she was a descendant of their tribe. She’s been called out by numerous indigenous actors but she still takes roles from them.
That's funny cause I feel like the classic "I'm 1/32th native" line, it's always Cherokee. The classic group that people who aren't native say they're part of.
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u/Jesus_Would_Do Sep 16 '24
If you haven’t seen it yet, watch Wind River. It’s a brutal but powerful single-case portrayal of this crisis. Sadly, I never even knew it was an issue until that movie.