Marquee Massacres: Native Americans in One Hundred Years of Global Movie Graphics from Oregon Passage to Battle of Rogue River, Curated by Rennard Strickland January 26, 2006

"What would we think the Native American was like if we had only the celluloid Indian from which to reconstruct history, if our exclusive available data came from motion picture archives? For millions of people these are the only images seen. On one side we see the noble redman, the faithful Tonto-like companion. On the other side we see the Indian as a ruthless pillager...we have the Puritan view of the Indian as savage sinner, the devil incarnate, offset against the new age red-skinned redeemer of attuned spirit and ecology. The duality dominates." - from Rennard Strickland's essay, Tonto's Revenge, or, Who Is that Seminole in the Sioux Warbonnet? The Cinematic Indian!

Scheduled to coincide with a Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics symposium exploring the rights of indigenous people world-wide, this exhibition uses film ephemera to explore the falsification of Indian identity through mainstream film images. http://www.morsechair.uoregon.edu/index.php http://www.law.uoregon.edu/faculty/rstrickland/