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Audience at "Club Red Radio"

"Smiling Indians"Smiling Indians
(2011, 5 min.) US
Director: Ryan Red Corn (Osage), Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Creek)

This lively compilation of images of Native people donning a wide variety of smiles disrupts the vast archive of images of stoic Indians. Unlike the stereotype that continues to prevail, these images celebrate Native people, here and now.

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Image credit: Audience at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI; Smiling Indians

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Sterlin Harjo

Ryan Red Corn

2011 Special Programs

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