{"id":163976,"date":"2022-12-21T06:43:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T06:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/indigenous-people-call-avatar-2-racist-for-navi-portrayal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T06:43:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T06:43:03","slug":"indigenous-people-call-avatar-2-racist-for-navi-portrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/indigenous-people-call-avatar-2-racist-for-navi-portrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous people call &#8216;Avatar 2&#8217; racist for Na&#8217;vi portrayal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-grBDNq hide-for-print mb-sm undefined\">\n<div class=\"PJLV PJLV-iAjpuP-css flex items-center\" config=\"[object Object]\" data-qa=\"article-actions\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-fLphcs\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-jmLDag wpds-c-jmLDag-bywHgD-variant-primary wpds-c-jmLDag-biynoz-density-compact wpds-c-jmLDag-hZSyid-isOutline-true wpds-c-jmLDag-ejCoEP-icon-left wpds-c-jmLDag-futxca-cv wpds-c-jmLDag-iknmtxO-css\"><button aria-label=\"Comment\" class=\"PJLV PJLV-iPnDcc-css\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"wpds-c-kKAfCG wpds-c-efqEZa focus-highlight flex items-center justify-center brad-lg pointer transition-400 ease-in-out transition-colors\" aria-label=\"Comment on this story\"><title>Comment on this story<\/title><path d=\"M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p>Comment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser-content grid-center\">\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The release of \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water\u201d has put the series&#8217; creators under hot water yet again, as Indigenous people criticize what they call the movie&#8217;s glamorization of colonialism and racist depiction of Native people and culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">When the original<b> <\/b>\u201cAvatar\u201d came out in 2009, the science-fiction fantasy&#8217;s robust 3D effects and stunning visuals drove it to become the highest-grossing movie of all time.  After 13 years and an estimated $250 million budget, die-hard fans had high expectations for director James Cameron&#8217;s second installment, which debuted Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\">&#8216;Avatar&#8217; sequel dominates box office but falls short of expectations<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">But Indigenous critics say the problematic pitfalls of the first \u201cAvatar\u201d movie reappear in the sequel, namely in its portrayal of the Na&#8217;vi, the movie&#8217;s alien species inspired by several Native tribes around the world.  The oceanic Na&#8217;vi clan that&#8217;s central to the second film was heavily influenced by the Maori, the Indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Cheney Poole, 27, from Christchurch, New Zealand \u2014 known as Otautahi, Aotearoa, in the Maori language \u2014 calls the film&#8217;s portrayal \u201cjust another example of the same very upfront and apparent romanticization of colonization.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cIt very much romanticizes the idea of \u200b\u200bwhat not only Maori are going through but many Indigenous cultures around the world and almost downplays the suffering,\u201d both from the past and present, Poole said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Cameron, who could not be reached for comment, in 2012 called \u201cAvatar\u201d a \u201cscience fiction retelling of the history of North and South America in the early colonial period.\u201d  He said in a recent<b> <\/b>interview with Unilad that he was listening to marginalized groups and sought to make improvements with the second film.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\">&#8216;Avatar: The Way of Water&#8217;: Long, loud, eye-popping and forgettable<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cThe people who have been victimized historically are always right.  It&#8217;s not up to me, speaking from a perspective of White privilege, if you will, to tell them that they&#8217;re wrong,\u201d Cameron said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The plot of the first movie, in which White human outsider Jake Sully infiltrates the Na&#8217;vi to save them from a corporation trying to exploit environmental resources from their land of Pandora, raised concern from Indigenous groups.  Cameron told Unilad he believes the new movie was able to \u201csidestep\u201d that \u201cWhite-savior motif.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Lailatul Fitriyah, who researches decoloniality as an<b> <\/b>assistant professor at Claremont School of Theology, said she had no interest in watching the \u201cAvatar\u201d sequel, after she recently watched the first movie for the first time.  Fitriyah said she was appalled that Jake became a Na&#8217;vi in \u200b\u200bthat movie, playing into what she called a colonialist trope that a foreigner can easily \u201cgo Native\u201d by looking the part and learning what&#8217;s implied to be a primitive culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\">Renaming Indian Head Highway seemed like a good idea.  How did it go wrong?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The second movie was not much better, thought Mana Tyne, a 19-year-old from Queensland, Australia, who is Maori.  In it, Jake is now a Na&#8217;vi clan leader,<b> <\/b>and Tyne was offended by how the film reduces ta moko, a type of tattoo that is culturally significant and readable for Maori people, to \u201cabstract, meaningless shapes\u201d that \u201cserve more as an aesthetic\u201d on the characters&#8217; faces and bodies in the movie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cI would love to see more Maori people and culture represented on screen in cinema, but I want to see Maori people playing them,\u201d Tyne said.  \u201cI don&#8217;t want to have to sacrifice the significance of our practices that have already lost so much through colonialism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\">&#8216;Titanic&#8217; director says new study proves Jack could not have survived<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Film critics have given \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water\u201d mixed to positive reviews, and audiences have turned out, albeit in numbers less than projected.  The film raked in $134 million in North America over the weekend, tying it with \u201cThe Batman\u201d for the year&#8217;s fifth-highest domestic debut, and earned an additional $300 million abroad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">But the mere visibility of Native characters, Poole said, especially when crafted with tropes, doesn&#8217;t help address the trauma real Native people have faced in the same way that an authentic portrayal of Native people would.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cWe still have elders in our community that bear scars from being beaten in school for speaking their native language<i>,<\/i>\u201d said Poole.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\">Meet the people who never stopped thinking &#8216;Avatar&#8217; was cool<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Autumn Asher BlackDeer, an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver, said the \u201cAvatar\u201d movies also add to the monolithic portrayal of Native people commonly used in media.  The Na&#8217;vi are mystical and solemn noble savages, she said,<b> <\/b>with stereotypically angular cheekbones and long hair in braids.  They also have a physical characteristic BlackDeer&#8217;s tribe, Southern Cheyenne, is known for \u2014 pronounced noses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">She said that because the movies draw from multiple Indigenous tribes, it can imply that all Native people are the same.  It&#8217;s a harmful stereotype that has been furthered by \u201cPretendians,\u201d non-Native people who might use generic Native clothing or accessories to appear Indigenous, BlackDeer said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\">Unearthing Native American history on an island in Southern Maryland<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cI&#8217;m so tired of hearing Indigenous stories from a White perspective,\u201d she said.  \u201cWe don&#8217;t need Hollywood big-budget movies.  We could tell our own stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Johnnie Jae, who is part of the Otoe-Missouria and Choctaw tribes, called it racist and harmful for \u201cAvatar\u201d filmmakers to glorify colonialism and peddle Native tropes for entertainment when Indigenous people worldwide have safeguarded land, water and biodiversity before their White counterparts joined the fight for climate justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">But Jae, 42, also noted that because Native people and perspectives are diverse, not all will share her aversion for the movies, which have somewhat increased visibility for Indigenous people and issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cIt&#8217;s hard to kind of acknowledge all of these different nuances without vilifying each other or making it or playing against each other,\u201d Jae said.  \u201cWe have to acknowledge the problematic representation.  But in the same vein, we can possibly acknowledge what was done right, because that&#8217;s how we make progress in making the media better.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"dn-ns hide-for-print\" data-testid=\"mostRead\" subscriptions-section=\"content\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment on this story Comment The release of \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water\u201d has put the series&#8217; creators under hot water yet again, as Indigenous people criticize what they call the movie&#8217;s glamorization of colonialism and racist depiction of Native people and culture. 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