Invisible

Date2004

Can DescriptionsONSITE REFERENCE ONLY. // Verification tape for stock footage job. // Contains footage from Nicholas Smith Collection acc. 1694. // A film The Native American people of Maine are invisible. To most whites in the state, they do not exist. Many of those who do know of the Indians' presence are ignorant of both their history and their present circumstances. This film examines some of the history of the relations between the white and Indian communities in Maine. Through the voices of persons telling their stories, it looks at some of the underlying reasons for the racism so deeply embedded in white American culture and how that racism continues to shape Native American reality today. It then asks how we can begin to change our own racism and confront the invisible racism that still lies beneath much of white American society today (from tape jacket).

• David Westphal

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• David Westphal