Revisiting my Oct. 1 Disney-Bashing blog

I blogged previously about the Disneyfication of The Indian in Children’s movies – with negative portrayals in films like Pocahontas and Peter Pan. I found an article  today in a grade 11 textbook that states it in a different light. In a recent interview, Cree singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie, from the Piapot region in Saskatchewan, stated “In Canada, Native people ourselves have overcome amazing odds—to become teachers and lawyers and tribal leaders and telecommunicators and well-known artists, in spite of everything trying to Pocahontasize us.” Academy Award winning Sainte-Marie received an honorary doctorate from UNBC in May 2012 (the latest of 6 honorary degrees) to add to her rich and diverse Curriculum Vitae. Find the interview at http://staff.gsacrd.ab.ca/~cmadill@gsacrd.ab.ca/FOV2-00065971/FOV2-00065974/FOV2-00065977/FOV2-000659A4/Between%20the%20Line,%20Unit%202.pdf